Celebrate Halloween with Spooky Cocktails
E
veryone deserves a spooky cocktail to celebrate Halloween. It's time to get fancy, celebrate, and spice up your at-home drinking with these intriguing cocktails!
Cocktails by Glenmorangie and Ardbeg Wee Beastie
The Witch's Magic Mule
Ingredients
50 ml - Glenmorangie Nectar D'Or
20 ml - Lemon Juice
20 ml - Ginger Syrup
2 dashes - Angostura Bitters
Soda Water
Method
Take a sling glass and pour in the whisky, along with the lemon juice, bitters and ginger syrup.
Add a few mint leaves, then crushed ice, until the glass is two-thirds full.
Give it a mix, shake in more crushed ice and top with soda water.
Keep the whisky's flavour's front of mind with a mint sprig and a lemon slice on top.
Trick or Treat Old Fashioned
Ingredients
45 ml - Glenmorangie Lasanta
7.5 ml - Sweet Vermouth
5 ml - Gingerbread Syrup
2 dashes - Angostura Bitters
Method
Pour everything into a mixing glass, add ice cubes and stir for a few moments.
Strain into a chilled rocks glass, over more ice cubes, then set off the rich swirl of flavours with a spiralling lemon twist.
Cookie Monster Sour
Ingredients
50 ml - Glenmorangie Lasanta
10 ml - Gingerbread Syrup
10 ml - Vanilla Syrup
20 ml - Lemon Syrup
2 dashes - Angostura Bitters
2 dashes - Chocolate Bitters
10 ml - Egg White
Method
Pour all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker.
Fill the shaker with cubed ice and shake for 10-15 seconds.
Strain into a chilled rocks glass over cubed ice.
Garnish with a ginger biscuit dipped in white chocolate.
Bloody Rob Roy
Ingredients
50ml Ardbeg Wee Beastie
20ml Sweet Vermouth
2 dashes Angosutra Bitters
Orange Twist
Cherry
Method
Add all liquid ingredients to a mixing glass, stir for dilution.
Strain into a coupe glass, garnish and serve
Bramble Bite
Ingredients
50ml Ardbeg Wee Beastie
20ml Fresh Lemon Juice
10ml Vanilla Syrup
15ml Blackberry Liqueur
Mint Sprig
Blackberry
Method
Add Ardbeg, lemon juice and syrup to a stemmed water goblet half-filled with crushed ice.
Muddle a little before adding more crushed ice.
Drizzle with blackberry liqueur and garnish with a mint sprig and blackberry
Bubble Beast
Ingredients
50ml Ardbeg Wee Beastie
15ml Nocino
30ml Acidulated Carrot Juice
5ml Tonic Syrup
60-90ml Soda Water
1 pinch salt
Basil
Saffron
Method
Add all liquid ingredients to a collins glass, gently stir and then add ice.
Top with soda water before garnish.
Cocktails by Belvedere iamp; Hennessy
The Lakeside
Ingredients
40 ml - Belvedere Vodka
15 ml - Fino Sherry
25 ml - Fresh Lemon Juice
25 ml - Honey Water
2 chunks - Fresh Cucumber
Method
Add all ingredients to a shaker over cubed ice and shake vigorously.
Fine strain into a chilled coupette.
Garnish with fresh cucumber.
Belvedere Bloody Sour
Ingredients
40 ml - Belvedere Vodka
30 ml - Italian Bitter Liqueur
25 ml - Fresh Lemon Juice
20 ml - Honey Water
1 egg white
2 dashes - Angostura Bitters
Method
Add all ingredients to a shaker without ice and dry shake to froth egg white.
Add ice and shake for a second time.
Double strain into a coupe glass and garnish with either blackberries or cherries.
The Rubin
Ingredients
30 ml - Belvedere Vodka
20 ml - Bianco Vermouth
20 ml - Fresh Grapefruit Juice
20 ml - Fresh Orange Juice
30 ml - Cold Green Tea
Tonic Water
Method
Add all ingredients into a spritz/wine glass.
Fill with ice and gently stir.
Top with a splash of tonic water and garnish with a wedge of Grapefruit.
Hennessy 1111
Ingredients
50 ml Hennessy V.S
5 ml Raw cane syrup (or demerara syrup)
1 Dash Smoked chili bitters
1 Dash Angostura bitters
1 Orange twist
Method
Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice.
Stir to chill.
Strain into a rocks glass with ice.
Garnish with an orange twist.
Hennessy zombie
Ingredients
45 ml Hennessy V.S
15 ml Maraschino Liqueur
60 ml Enriched coconut milk (preferably organic)
3 Dashes Angostura Bitters
1 Freshly grated nutmeg
Method
Add all ingredients to a shaker with very finely cracked or shaved ice.
Shake to chill.
Pour the entire shaker into a highball glass.
Top up with crushed ice.
Add the Angostura bitters.
Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.
Add a cherry on top
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