Thread: Halloween Themed Drinks

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So I'm considering getting a bartender for my party this year and my idea is to have a drink menu all printed out with different mixed drinks on it. Does anyone have a special drinks they like to serve at their parties?

At our party with young kids I have tried to keep booze minimal but every year I put out Jars or pickled slugs ( peach slices in amaretto ), poisen cherries ( mericheno cherries in vodka or everclear) adults eat em up kids wont touch.

For my last two parties, I've had a Wheel of Torture that guests can spin for a "specialty" drink (see pic link below). Here are some of the drinks we did last year... these were all small shots, not really drinks to sip The previous year we did a lot of test tube shots and cocktails with black vodka (Blavod).

Corpse Reviver (No. 2)
1 shot gin
1 shot Cointreau
1 shot Lillet Blanc
1 shot fresh lemon juice
Dash of absinthe or substitute (roughly ¼ teaspoon)
Shake well with ice and strain in to a cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Wicked Witch
1.5 oz. Whiskey
0.25 oz. Maraschino Liqueur
0.25 oz. Pineapple Juice
1 tsp. Lemon Juice

Silver Bullet
Peppermint Schnapps
Chocolate Syrup
(I thought about making this one just a shot of Coors beer, but I hate beer ;P)

Brain Hemorrhage
Peach Schnapps
Bailey's
Grenadine
(here are directions and pics: Brain Hemorrhage Shot - Halloween Drink - pretty similar to the Alien Autopsy below. These drinks were favorites because they look gross but are pretty tasty)

Alien Autopsy
Mountain Dew
Bailey's
Grenadine
(directions on this page: I Make Projects - A Cannibal-Themed Halloween Supper - slightly different ingredients & execution from the brain hemorrhage)

Zombie
Store bought Zombie Mix

Mad Scientist was bartender's choice... so whatever I felt like mixing up And Pick Your Poison was the guest's choice of any drink on the wheel.

Here's my Wheel of Torture from last year (a painted $7.99 lazy susan from Ikea)
http://www.halloweenforum.com/pictur...ictureid=17851

I am SO doing this: Dabbled Blog Archive Halloween Cocktails – Creepy Bubble Fun!

I love bubble tea, so this will be AWESOME!

I know I just showed up again out of the blue.....but I just read a pretty cool thing today. You can make Candy Corn Vodka by getting an airtight container of candycorn and filling it with vodka and letting soak over night then filtering the hell out of it the next day. I've done this with skittles and vodka before and it's an amazing way to taste the rainbow if you know what I mean lol.

Also, I can't remember the name of it but you take a rocks glass and rub a lime on the rim then dip it in black sugar. Then it's 1/4 cup of dark rum mixed with 1/4 cup ginger ale. Put a gummy black spider in the bottom and it looks really festive. Got the recipe from a food network magazine

Hey- Please check out my Blog here on forum, I have a bunch of posts with Halloween cocktail recipes-with pics......Have a look!

Hey- Please check out my Blog here on forum, I have a bunch of posts with Halloween cocktail recipes-with pics......Have a look!

I suggest trying the Brain Hemorrhage before serving it. Tried it last year and thought it was disgusting. So did the guest I served one to. Problem is that the Baliey's coagulates in your mouth and surprise chunky drinks are just gross. The peach shnapps tasted really bad too. It looks cool, but what a waste of Baileys!

Originally Posted by Samhain.Voodoo

Also, I can't remember the name of it but you take a rocks glass and rub a lime on the rim then dip it in black sugar. Then it's 1/4 cup of dark rum mixed with 1/4 cup ginger ale. Put a gummy black spider in the bottom and it looks really festive. Got the recipe from a food network magazine

Ooh, that's a Dark and Stormy, one of my favorite fall drinks. If you pour it carefully, you can get the rum and ginger beer to layer, making a really cool "stormy sky" effect.

I've always wanted to try the black vodka for Halloween. I saw a picture of a screwdriver made with that as a layered drink, so it was half orange, half black. I suppose it would look pretty murky once you mixed it to drink it, but that'd be ok for Halloween, too!

I like making apple-pie type drinks, like apple cider, vanilla vodka, and cinnamon schnapps shaken together and poured into a martini glass.

I was also considering hiring a bartender. But I think due to budget we are going to just have a bar area set up. We have one of those alcohol bottle spinners that holds 4 bottles. I want to find two shot recipes, each with two ingredients and have the bottles to make those in the holder with the recipes posted. I'll let you know once I find the shot recipes I saw last year.

I was also going to look into renting the frozen drink mixers (kinda like slushee machines). We would call the pina coladas something about marrow and daquiris something about blood. Any good name ideas anyone?