Scrap the vodka cran this year and whip up some of your own chillingly delicious cocktails, all suited to the costume of your choice this Hallow's Eve. Even if you aren't a cocktail guru, no need to scream...just head to one of the hot spots listed below to try some of these dangerous concoctions.
The Bloody Shine
Ingredients
2 oz Original Moonshine
3 oz tomato juice
1/2 oz fresh lemon
3 dashes worcestershire sauce
2 drops tabasco
Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
Mix all ingredients and shake. Pour into glass and add ice if you prefer. For all you victims of foul play this Halloween, this will be the perfect pre-game cocktail to try out with your deadly friends. You might not see it on the menu, but you can ask for this hauntingly delicious drink at Lure, Hill Country, Macalleria and Cafe Luxembourg.
The Black Eye
Ingredients include honey whiskey, walnut liquer, orgeat syrup, and espresso, but if you want to try it, you gotta head down to Royalton's Forty Four. This eerie drink will be served all weekend and will be included on their new Fall menu.
Cointreau® Orange Moon
Ingredients:
1 oz Mount Gay Eclipse Rum
½ oz Cointreau®
½ oz Fresh lemon juice (or juice of half a lemon)
Splash of orange juice
5 oz Blue Moon Beer
Garnish: Orange slice
Directions:
Combine first 4 ingredients in glass. Top with beer. Serve in Beer Glass or Mug. Garnish with orange slice. This gruesome cocktail is spot on for all you Twilight lovers out there (and dressed as Edward Cullen and Bella), because we all know the moon brings out the best of wild creatures.
Afterlife Cocktail
Ingredients
1.5
ounces
Espolon
Tequila
Reposado
.5
ounces
Frangelico
.5
ounces
Lemon
Juice
1
ounce
Chile
Piquin‐Cinnamon
Syrup
2
dashes
Wormwood
Bitters
Directions
Shake
ingredients
together
and
strain
into
a
rocks
glass
over
ice.
Garnish
with
a
lemon
twist.
Try it if you dare at Ofrenda.
The Witch's Eye
Ingredients
3‐4
fresh
grapes
1
½
oz.
Pisco
Sparkling
Sake
Method:
Muddle
the
grapes;
add
Pisco.
Strain
contents
into
flute
glass.
Top
with
Sparkling
Sake.
Add
frozen
whole
grapes
as
garnish. Head to any Zengo location to try it out. On Halloween, guests dressed in costume will receive a complimentary Witch's Eye.
Swamp Thing Cocktail
Ingredients
1.25
oz
light
rum
.5
oz
absinthe
.25
oz
lime
juice
.25
oz
simple
syrup
2
thick
slices
of
cucumber
Method
Cut
the
cucumber
slices
into
quarters
and
muddle
to yield
as
much
juice
as
possible. Add
remaining
ingredients
and
shake
vigorously
with
ice.
Strain
liquid
into
a
chilled
cocktail
glass
and
serve.
Get tipsy on this baby at 508 GastroBrewery.
The Rum Punch
Ingredients:
Banks 5 Island Rum
Brewed Sencha Tea
Morroccan Mint Tea
Lime Juice
Demerara sugar
Grated nutmeg sprinkled on top
This cocktail, available at Nitehawk Cinema, is perfect for all the pirates and wenches out roaming the night. For once you won't be asking, "why is the rum always gone?"
Cointreau® Blood Orange Cosmo
Ingredients:
1 oz GREY GOOSE Vodka
1 oz Cointreau®
½ oz Fresh Sour Mix
¼ oz Monin Blood Orange
½ oz. Cranberry Juice
Garnish: Blood Orange Slice
Directions:
Chill glass. Combine ingredients in shaker with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into glass. Garnish and serve in Martini glass. If you don't have your fill of blood yet this Halloween, then this is the perfect pick-me-up cocktail to get you in the mood for your gory night ahead.
Margarita Del Diablo
Ingredients:
1
1/2
oz
Riazul
Reposado
1
oz.
Blood
Orange
Puree
2
oz.
Sour
Mix
Mole
Negro
Rim
Preparation:
Mix
the
first
3
ingredients
into
a
mixing
glass.
Add
ice
and
shake
vigorously.
Turn
a
margarita
glass
upside
down
and
rub
the
rim
with
the
Mole
Negro. Pour
the
tequila
mixture
into
the
margarita
glass.
This devilish drink is served at Maya, Pampano, and Tamayo for their Day of the Dead Celebration...which just so happens to be Halloween weekend! Bottoms up.