BOOzy Cocktails To Mix Up This Halloween

  • By: Ashley Joy Parker

The power of cocktails compels you……

Halloween is creeping around the corner, but this year, skip the tricks and imbibe in some BOOzy treats. Whether you are having a scary movie night in or busting out your moves to “Monster Mash,” spine-tingling cocktails can spice up any celebration.

Featuring potent potions from resorts around the country to bewitching brews created with fall’s most festive flavors, take a peek at our official spooky sips guide below.

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Vampire Bite

Sink your teeth into Dracula’s go-to drink from Casamigos. The the terrifying tequila cocktail include fresh lime juice, simple syrup, a fresno chili slick and cilantro for kick and finished off with a gory red honey blood drip.

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz. Casamigos Blanco Tequila
  • 1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
  • 0.75 oz Simple Syrup
  • 1 Fresno Chili Slice
  • 8-10 Cilantro Leaves
  • Garnish Food Grade Red Dye Honey Blood Drip* and Vampire Fangs

*To create Red Dye Honey – Pour approximately 2 oz of honey into a medium bowl or plate and add 1-2 drops of food grade red dye, and stir well with spoon until evenly colored. Keep at room temperature for best mixability.

Method: Roll upper portion of martini glass in food grade red dye honey and swirl until coating the entire rim of glass. Then slowly spin glass at an angle and let red honey drip down exterior wall of glass. Combine all ingredients into tin shaker. Muddle cilantro and fresno chili, add ice and shake vigorously, then fine strain into rocks glass. Add fresh ice and garnish.

 

Poison Apple Spice

Embrace the season’s flavors with this sensational sip! The gin-based Poison Apple Spice cocktail is the perfect accessory and a sweet addition to any spooky night.

Ingredients: 

  • 1.5 oz Bombay Sapphire
  • 0.5 oz MARTINI Rosso Vermouth
  • 0.5 oz Bottlegreen Spiced Berry cordial
  • 0.5 oz cloudy apple juice

Method: Place all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with plenty of cubed ice. Shake well for 15 seconds, or until the outside of the shaker is frosted. Fine strain into a chilled coupette or Martini cocktail glass.

Cincoro Fall Margarita

Margaritas aren’t just reserved for summer. This festive twist on Cincoro Tequila‘s favorite drink is the quintessential autumn exliar. 

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 oz Cincoro Blanco Tequila
  • 2 oz Apple Cider
  • 0.25 Fresh Lime Juice
  • 0.5 Maple Syrup

Method: Combine all ingredients, shake, and serve over one large ice cube. Garnish with cinnamon sugar rim and a cinnamon stick

Stormin’ Sailor

Get nauti this Halloween with Sailor Jerry’s dark party drink, the Stormin’ Sailor. This freakishly fun treat is mixed with lemon-lime soda and cranberry juice, then topped off with black food dye, sugar sprinkles and dry ice for extra credit.

Ingredients:

  • 2 parts Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
  • 1 mini can of Lemon-Lime Soda
  • 3 parts Cranberry Juice
  • Black Food Gel
  • Dry Ice
  • Sugar Sprinkles

Method: Wet rim of glass with a bit of lemon-lime soda, then dip rim in sugar sprinkles. In sugar-rimmed glass, combine Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, lemon-lime soda, cranberry juice and a very small amount of black food gel. Using tongs or while wearing thick gloves, place a small piece of dry ice into the glass. Wait for dry ice to completely dissolve in your cocktail, so as to not risk burning your mouth or throat.

Pumpkin Potion

Let the flickering flames of the jack-o’-lantern guide your sips through a thrilling, pumpkin-spiced night. This handsome whiskey-based concoction is definitely not for basic witches.

Ingredients: 

*Pumpkin Spiced Syrup:

  • Boil the pumpkin flesh to soften (I part pumpkin, 3 pars hot water).
  • Mash the softened pumpkin.
  • Add equal weight in honey and double weight of water to pumpkin. Mix well.
  •  Simmer over a low heat with spices (1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon) for 15-20 minutes until all ingredients are mixed well and have a syrup-like texture.

Method: Add Teeling Whiskey, Pumpkin Spice Syrup and Hot Water to an Irish Coffee glass and stir gently. Add cinnamon stick and/or lemon wedge with cloves.

White Witch

Created by Trader Vic’s, this tropical rum-based sipper is as refreshing as it it is festive.
  • 1 oz Silver Rum 
  • 0.5 oz Cointreau 
  • 0.5 oz White Crème de Cacao 
  • 0.5  oz Lime Squeeze (save spent lime shell) 
  • Top with Club Soda 

Method: Build in 12-ounce glass over ice cubes. Add the Rum, Cointreau, White Crème de  Cacao, Squeeze Lime. Top with Club Soda and Stir. Garnish with Sprig Fresh Mint, Spent Lime Shell and dust with a little bar sugar.

Winter’s Bane

The alchemists at Pink House Alchemy crafted this scarily delicious Winter Bane cocktail just in time for the spookiest time of the year. This dark drink uses activated charcoal for an extra festive touch.

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Plymouth Gin⁠
  • 0.5 oz pH Ginger Syrup⁠
  • 0.5 oz Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao⁠
  • 1 Egg White⁠
  • 0.25 oz Fresh Lemon Juice⁠
  • Splash of Lemon La Croix ⁠
  • 1/2 Capsule of Activated Charcoal
  • Dehydrated Blood Orange Slice

Method: Stir together gin, lemon, syrup, and empty the contents of a charcoal capsule. Strain onto fresh ice. ⁠Dry shake egg white and Curaçao – layer over the cocktail. ⁠Add a bit of Lemon La Croix Bubbles to raise the drink. ⁠Garnish with a dehydrated blood orange slice.

Spiced Pumpkin Miracle

Created by Luis Lopez, Milagro Tequila West Coast Ambassador, the Spiced Pumpkin Miracle is a frothy festive treat made with tequila, lemon juice, orgeat and pumpkin puree.

Ingredients:

  • 2 parts Milagro Reposado
  • 1 part Lemon Juice
  • 1 part Orgeat (Liquid Alchemist)
  • 1 part Pumpkin Puree
  • Garnish: Smoked Cinnamon Stick, 2 Star Anise

Method: Add all ingredients to shakers, shake for 10 seconds to allow all ingredients to dissolve. Finally strain into a tall glass with fresh ice, garnish and enjoy

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Children Of The Candy Corn

Candy Corn is Halloween staple and this cocktail perfect way to indulge yourself with this timeless flavor in a more…refined way. Combining butterscotch, maple syrup, and even pumpkin with El Silencio‘s Mezcal Espadin, this creepy cocktail might be the perfect way to celebrate spooky season.

Ingredients: 

  • 1 oz Mezcal El Silencio Espadin
  • 1 oz Smucker’s Butterscotch Syrup
  • 1 oz Pumpkin Puree
  • 0.75 oz Maple Syrup
  • 1 oz Pineapple Juice
  • 1 Whole Organic Egg

Method: Place all ingredients except the egg inside a shaker tin. Stir all of the ingredients together until they are incorporated evenly. Add the whole egg to the shaker tin. Place a spring or protein shaker ball inside the shaker tin. Dry shake the ingredients (don’t add ice) vigorously for 30 seconds. Fill the shaker with ice and shake vigorously for another 30 seconds. Fine strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with a flamed orange slice.

Dracula’s Dramble

Look no further than this fun fall cocktail for your next party. Pair a classic character’s costume with this new Dewar’s expression featuring fresh flavors to enjoy throughout the night.

  • 2 ½ oz Dewar’s 12 year old
  • 1 ⅓ oz Lemon Juice
  • ⅔ oz sugar syrup
  • ½ oz Crème de Mûre

Method: Add all ingredients (without crème de mure) to glass. Fill with crushed ice, stir and swizzle. Top with more crushed ice, then drizzle crème de mure on top.

Vampires of Perthshire

Sink your fangs into this mystic concoction that will transport you to the shadowy realms of Perthshire’s night.

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz ABERFELDY 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  • 0.25  oz Apple Cider Syrup
  • 0.25 oz Averna
  • 2 dashes Orange Bitters

Method: Add all ingredients to a glass and stir. Express oil of an orange peel and garnish.

 

Midnight Margarita

From the mixologist team behind Southbound Tequila, the Midnight Margarita is equal parts gorgeous and ghoulish. The freakishly good floral sipper gets its pretty purple color from the butterfly pea flowers.

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Butterfly Pea Flower Water*
  • 1.5 oz Southbound Tequila Blanco
  • 0.25 oz Agave
  • o   1 oz Coconut Water
  • 0.5 oz Lemon Juice
  • 0.5 oz Cointreau or Elderflower
  • 3 dashes of Fee Foam Bitters

*Butterfly pea, flower, water recipe

Soft boil one cup of water. Remove from heat. Add in five butterfly pea flowers, and infuse for 5 to 10 minutes. Pour into a jar and add in a teaspoon of lemon juice

Method: Add together all ingredients in a shaker. Do a dry shake first, then add ice and shake. Top with a fake spider!

(photo credit: Eddie Valdez @turnstylepoet)

Rum Lantern

This hauntingly delicious Rum Lantern, served in Trader Vic‘s Hulaween Mai Tai glass,  features Ko-Ko Kreme & Passion Fruit syrup and a whole lot of rum. This spook-tacular cocktail will send shivers down your spine.

Ingredients: 

  • 1 oz Trader Vic’s Light Rum
  • 1 oz Trader Vic’s Dark Rum
  • 0.5 oz Dry Curaçao
  • 0.5 oz Ko-Ko Kreme
  • 0.25 oz Passion Fruit Syrup
  • 0.75 oz Lime Juice
  • Crushed Ice
  • Fresh Mint and a Cherry for Garnish (or a hand carved orange zest jack-o-lantern)

Method: Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add a small scoop of pebble ice and whip shake. Pour unstraine into your Hulaween Mai Tai glass and top with crushed or pebble ice.

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