Halloween is our favorite time of the year — pumpkins, parties, costumes, cocktails and more! Here are a few ideas for fun seasonal seasonal drinks.
Ingredients
- 1 oz. Vodka
- ½ oz. Raw carrot juice
- ½ oz. Bauchant orange liqueur
Instructions
- Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Shake and strain into a shot glass.
- Garnish with a lemon twist.
Notes
The mixologists at Bauchant created this recipe.
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ oz. Ketel One vodka
- ½ oz. Crown Royal Blackberry
- ½ oz. Mr. Black coffee liqueur
- ½ oz. Cold brew concentrate
- ½ oz. Vanilla syrup*
- Top with Guinness
Instructions
- In a shaker, combine all ingredients (except Guinness) with ice.
- Shake vigorously for 7-10 seconds
- Strain over ice into a highball glass.
- Top with Guinness.
- Garnish with a cocktail pick of blackberries
Notes
*For Vanilla syrup
Combine 1000 grams of simple syrup and 5 grams of vanilla extract in a container, mix well. Cover and keep refrigerated. Mixologist Javelle Taft created this recipe.
Combine 1000 grams of simple syrup and 5 grams of vanilla extract in a container, mix well. Cover and keep refrigerated. Mixologist Javelle Taft created this recipe.
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ tbsps. Pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon Chai spice
- ½ parts Lemon juice
- ¾ parts 1:1 Honey syrup
- 2 parts Skyy vodka
- Grated Nutmeg
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to shaker.
- Add ice and shake until chilled.
- Double strain into coupe or cocktail glass.
- Garnish with grated nutmeg.
Notes
The mixologists at Skyy created this recipe.
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ oz. Tequila Reposado
- ½ oz. PB&J syrup*
- ½ oz. Black charcoal-infused simple syrup simple syrup with dash of charcoal powder
- 1 oz. Lime juice
- Black sug
Instructions
- Use a lemon to dampen half of the rim of a rocks glass and a little of the outside of the glass.
- Roll that side of the glass rim in black sugar.
- Combine all ingredients into a shaker and shake with ice.
- Strain into rimmed rocks glass over ice.
Notes
*For PB&J syrup: Combine 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup blueberries, 1 cup water and ¾ oz. lemon juice in a pot. Cook it down then add ⅓ cup of peanuts and let simmer for 5 minutes. Strain and let cool.
Adrienne Ferguson, bartender at The Vault at the Kimpton Monaco Salt Lake City hotel, created this recipe.
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ oz. The Pathfinder Hemp and Root nonalcoholic spirit
- 2 oz. Blood orange-beet juice
- 2 oz. Ginger beer
- ½ oz. Lemon juice
Instructions
- Add ingredients to a tumbler with ice and stir.
- Top with ginger ale.
- Garnish with a lemon and orange peel.
Notes
Lee Noble, mixologist at Quaker City Mercantile, created this recipe.
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Activated Charcoal is a dangerous ingredient to use in or on a cocktail. I strongly urge readers to find a different way (Which there are many) to make a black component and still be photo worthy.
“While black cocktails may be extremely Instagram-worthy, the activated charcoal often used to give the drinks their inky hue could have serious health consequences. Activated charcoal can adsorb oral medications (and poisons, in the case of drug overdoses, for which it’s commonly used by emergency room doctors) so that the drugs never reach the bloodstream. It’s an uncomfortable fact that the sexy obsidian-colored old-fashioned you serve to a customer may affect the medication that person has taken shortly before, or after, imbibing.
While one could add a medication-interaction warning about activated charcoal, like an allergen label on a drink menu, there are other ways to color a drink black that don’t require a scary-sounding note. SevenFifty Daily asked bartenders around the country for cocktail-darkening alternatives and learned that black sesame seeds, cuttlefish ink, and black food coloring are among the ingredients being used.” -Camper Engilish