A Round of Halloween Cocktails For 2023
Just like the best Halloween costumes, Halloween cocktails tend to be creative, fun and visually arresting, not to mention delicious. Here are eight that we like for 2023 (which all happen to be either red or black, or reddish black). Plus don’t forget about these five Halloween recipes, as well as our holiday drink roundup from last year.
A Vampire’s Kiss
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Koloa Kaua’i Gold rum4 oz. Tart cherry juice½ oz. Lime juice½ oz. Simple syrup4 oz. Sparkling water
Instructions
Add ingredients (except soda water) into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake vigorously for 20 seconds until shaker is frosty.
Strain into a glass with ice.
Top with soda water and stir.
Garnish with dry ice (optional).
Notes
The mixologists at Koloa created this recipe.
Monster
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. YoCo vodka¾ oz. Lemon juice1 oz. Black raspberry liqueur½ oz. Simple syrup½ tsp. Activated charcoal1 pea-sized Dry ice chip
Instructions
Add all ingredients except dry ice to a shaker.
Fill with ice and shake vigorously.
Stain into glass, add the dry ice on top.
Notes
The mixologists at YoCo created this recipe.
Sleepy Hallow
Ingredients
1 oz. Tequila1 oz. Oloroso cream sherry1 oz. Cherry cider syrup¾ oz. Lemon juice
Instructions
Combine ingredients in a mixing tin and shake.
Strain into a coupe glass.
Garnish with burnt rosemary.
Notes
Audrey Angui, bar manager at Paradisaea in Bird Rock, San Diego, created this recipe.
It’s Freakin’ Bats
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Cutwater Tequila Blanco¾ oz. Beet juice½ oz. Blood orange juice¾ oz. Strawberry syrup½ oz. Pomegranate juice¼ oz. Port¼ oz. Aperol¾ oz. Lemon
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail tin.
Add pebble ice and shake briefly.
Pour into a wine glass and top with more pebble ice.
Garnish with a paper bat.
Notes
The mixologists at Cutwater Spirits created this recipe.
Pumpkin To Talk About
Ingredients
¾ oz. Grenadine1 ½ oz. Papa’s Pilar dark rum1 oz. Heavy cream1 ¼ oz. Whistlepig maple syrupPumpkin spice
Instructions
Add all ingredients into shaker.
Shake and pour into goblet.
Garnish with whipped cream, colored sugar on top.
Notes
The mixologists at Area 31 in Downtown Miami, FL, created this recipe.
The Lingering Spirit
Ingredients
2 oz. Fords Gin¾ oz. Garden syrup¾ oz. Lime juice1 vial of Coconut charcoal
Instructions
Add all ingredients into shaker.
Shake and strain into double Old Fashioned glass over large cube.
Garnish with black spider.
Notes
The mixologists at Agents Only at the Hotel Dena in Pasadena, CA, created this recipe.
Sweet Venom
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Vodka½ oz. Crème de cassis½ oz. Grenadine½ oz. Lemon juice½ oz. Cranberry juice¼ oz. Simple syrup3 Blackberries2 Raspberries2 dashes Orange bitters
Instructions
Combine vodka, cassis, lemon juice, cranberry juice and shake on ice.
Add grenadine, simple syrup and shake.
Strain into a glass, and top with blackberries, raspberries and orange bitters.
Garnish with a black sugar rim and dried blood orange.
Notes
Executive Chef John Angelo Cole at Pacci Italian Kitchen + Bar in The Kimpton Brice, Savannah, GA, created this recipe.
Bunnicula’s Brew
Ingredients
1 oz. Charbay R5 Lot 5 Whiskey1 oz. Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA½ oz. The Perfect Purée Blackberry Puree thawed1 oz. Long Meadow Ranch carrot juice½ oz. Caraway-infused Long Meadow Ranch honey¼ oz. Lemon juice¼ oz. Lime juice
Instructions
Add all ingredients to a shaker.
Fill halfway with ice and shake vigorously.
Strain into coupe glass.
Garnish with a carrot twist.
Notes
Casey Bruce of Farmstead at Long Meadow Ranch created this recipe.
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