AH HALLOW’S EVE, the per fect excuse to get a little weird and creepy… But when it comes to spook-ifiying cocktails, most are more gimmick than taste.
Let’s change that! Make this holiday a little less ghoulish with hauntingly chic drinks instead.
The following decisively bewitching cocktails are delicious without the sickly sweet, scary tasting, artificial nonsense you find at most Monster Bashes.
Serve up a little black magic — in the form of a cocktail infused with activated charcoal that’s as dark as night withthis hauntingly chic
SOUL TAKER:
1 ounce Charcoal Infused Rum
.75 ounce Fernet Branca
2 ounces fresh pressed Concord Grape juice
.5 ounce Lemon juice.
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake over ice. Strain and serve up.
Fernet Branca is flavored with around 40 roots, herbs, spices and other ingredients, including gentian, myrrh, chamomile and saffron. Dark brown, opaque, strongly herbaceous, In small doses, Fernet Branca can give a medicinal, spicy backbone to cocktails.
Clean, elegant and scary delicious, this seasonal concoction will have guests shrieking — and sipping — with delight.
HARVEST PUNCH
2 oz. pumpkin spice infused rum
1 oz. fresh pear cider
.75 oz. fall falernum
.75 oz. fresh lemon juice
2 dashes of tiki bitters
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake over ice. Serve in mini pumpkins.
A bone-chilling celebration calls for cocktails of an equally eerie sort, like this Dead Man’s Punch that’s sure to leave you frozen in your tracks. Perfect for those who want to sink their teeth into a blood-red drink that’s fang-tastically delicious. Make it even more magical with the smoke of dry ice.
1 cup fresh pressed cranberry juice
½ cup lemon juice
1⁄2 cup pomegranate molasses
3⁄4 cup fresh lemon juice
2 1⁄2 cups dry gin
1⁄2 cup mezcal
1 liter sparkling water
Lemon wheels, to garnish
Freshly grated nutmeg, to garnish
Pour the juice through a fine sieve into a bowl, pressing on the solids to extract their juices, and discard the solids. Stir in the gin and mezcal and refrigerate the punch until ready to serve.
To serve, pour the punch into a 1-gallon bowl and stir in the sparkling water. Unmold the ice hand and add it to the punch. Use the pomegranate molasses to add bloody effects.
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