Cheers to Halloween with These Spirit-Inspired Cocktails!

28 Oct 2021 by Jose Eledra in Cuisine, Decorating, General, Home, Pleasure, Products, Spirits

It’s officially spooky season, and nothing says celebrating Halloween like crafting festive cocktails. Sharing tasty recipes below to get into the spirit ahead of the 31st.

THE ROSEMARY’S BABBY (above)
Created by Binging with Babish

Ingredients:

  • 1.25 oz Singleton 12 Year Old
  • 0.75 oz Lemon Juice
  • 0.5 oz Simple Syrup
  • 0.25 oz High-Proof Alcohol (Absinthe or Green Chartreuse)

Glassware: Coupe Glass
Garnish: Rosemary Sprig

Preparation: Add one sprig of rosemary to a coupe glass and pour 0.25 oz high-proof alcohol over the rosemary. Pour Singleton 12 Year Old, lemon juice and simply syrup into a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake. Light the rosemary on fire in the coupe glass and let burn for 3-5 seconds. Strain from cocktail shaker over burning rosemary to extinguish.

BLOOD ORANGE BLOSSOM HIGHBALL
Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Seedlip Grove
  • ½ oz Honey Syrup
    • Combine equal parts warm water and honey. Stir to combine. Let cool.
  • 2 dashes orange blossom water
  • ¼ Lemon Juice
  • 3 oz Fevertree club soda

Glassware: Highball
Garnish: Blood Orange slice

Preparation: Build all ingredients into a glass. Add ice & gently stir. Garnish with a Blood Orange Slice.

WHISKY BLOOD ORANGE HONEY SHRUB COCKTAIL

Ingredients

  •  2 oz Buchanan’s DeLuxe 12 YO Scotch Whisky
  •  ¾ oz blood orange shrub (store bought or homemade)
  •  ¾ oz lemon juice
  • 1/oz honey
  • Dehydrated blood orange slice for garnish

If making Blood Orange Shrub:

  • 1 cup apple cider vinegar
  •  2 blood orange, sliced
  • 1.5 cups brown sugar
  •  Blood orange zest

Glassware: Rocks glass
Garnish: Dehydrated orange slice.

Preparation:
Blood orange shrub: Add all ingredients into a sterile mason jar, let infuse for 12 hours.
After infusion, shake until sugar dissolves and let sit for 2 hours to fully infuse the sugars. Strain and store in the fridge.

Final cocktail: Add whisky, blood orange shrub, lemon juice and honey into a shaker then add ice and shake and strain into a rocks glass over ice.

CÎROC POMEGRANATE JEWEL
Ingredients

  • 1 oz Ciroc Pomegranate
  • .5 oz Grenadine
  • Sparkling Wine

Glassware: Coupe

Garnish: Lemon twist

Preparation: Add CÎROC Pomegranate and Grenadine in a mixing glass. Add ice and gently stir. Strain into a glass (no ice). Top off with Sparkling Wine and garnish.

HARPER SPICED SOUR
Ingredients: 

  • 1.25 fl. oz. I.W. Harper Bourbon
  • 1 fl. oz. egg white
  • .25 fl. oz. Amaro (Italian Herbal Liqueur)
  • .75 fl. oz. lemon
  • .5 fl. oz. fig jam
  • .25 fl. oz chai syrup

Glassware: Coupe

Garnish: Grated Cinnamon

Preparation: Combine all ingredients into a shaker tin. Dry shake, add ice and shake again. Double-strain into a coupe class

 ORANGE HARVEST T&T
Ingredients:

  • 1.25 oz Tanqueray No. TEN
  • Top with tonic water

Glassware: Wine Glass

Garnish: Blood Orange Wheel, Floral garnish: Orange Dahlia, French Thyme

Preparation: Add ice to glass with Tanqueray No. TEN. Top with tonic. Place blood orange wheel on rim of the glass. Fix floral garnish to the rim of glass using a cocktail pick.

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