Looking for frighteningly delicious cocktails to serve your visiting ghouls and goblins this Halloween? Here are seven cocktails that will leave your guests screaming for more.
Jerry The Icelandic Sailor
1 part Reyka Vodka
1 part Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
½ part Lemon Juice
½ part Peach Juice or Nectar Angostura Bitters
Combine all ingredients into cocktail shaker except bitters. Shake, double strain, and serve over crushed ice. Add bitters and stir. Garnish with fresh grated nutmeg.
Mischief Night
2 parts Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
½ part Lemon Juice
1 part Grade-A Vermont Maple Syrup
1 ½ parts Fresh Orange Juice
Cold Seasonal Pilsner
Build ingredients in empty shaker (except beer). Add ice, shake and strain into chilled pint glass or desired beer mug (no ice). Top (to taste) with a cold seasonal pilsner of your choosing.
Sailor Jerry Candy Apple
2 parts Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
8 parts Warm (Real) Apple Cider
Combine and stir ingredients. Garnish with cinnamon stick. Serve in desired tempered after dinner glassware.
Drambuie’s Underdog
¾ part Drambuie
¾ part Dry Vermouth
½ part Amaro
¼ part Hendrick’s Gin
Build and stir in a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Hudson Whiskey’s The Ramble
2 parts Hudson Maple Cask Rye
½ part Cynar
½ part Dry Vermouth
1 bar spoon Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
2 dashes Aromatic Bitters
Stir ingredients over ice to chill, then strain into rocks glass over one large cube. Flame a sprig of rosemary for aroma and garnish.
Ancho Gimlet
1 part Ancho Reyes Verde
1 part Hendricks Gin
1 part Lime Juice
½ part Rich Simple Syrup (2:1 Sugar:Water)
Add all ingredients to shaker, add ice and shake hard to chill and dilute. Strain through a fine mesh strainer into a cocktail coupe and garnish with a cucumber wheel.
Smoke Stack Sazerac
1 ½ part Monkey Shoulder
0.2 part Sugar Syrup
Dash Peychaud’s Bitters
Dash Absinthe
Add all ingredients to mixing glass. Add cold dry ice and stir. Once dilution is reached strain into glass. Top with peach smoke. (FYI –Learn more about adding smoke to your cocktail).
