Poison Apple with no actual poison, and a Halloween with plenty of pumpkin. Five easy cocktails (including one big punch), all from ingredients you can find at a regular grocery store. Samhain history and a Dracula tribute inside.
Ingredients
Poison Apple
1½ oz. / 45 ml Vodka
½ oz. / 15 ml Blue curacao liqueur
2 oz. / 60 ml Cloudy apple juice
½ oz. / 15 ml Fresh lemon juice
⅓ oz. / 10 ml Spiced syrup
Garnish with an Apple slice
Shake, highball glass with ice, fine-strain
Pumpkin Sour
1½ oz. / 45 ml Irish whiskey
1 oz. / 30 ml Pumpkin puree
⅔ oz. / 20 ml Fresh lemon juice
½ oz. / 15 ml Honey syrup 2:1
Shake, chilled cocktail glass, fine-strain
Necromancer’s Potion
1½ oz. / 45 ml Dark rum
½ oz. / 15 ml Jagermeister or another herbal liqueur
⅓–½ oz. / 10–15 ml Fresh lime juice
⅓ oz. / 10 ml Simple syrup 1:1
2 oz. / 60 ml Cola, to top up
Garnish with a Lime wheel
Build in a highball glass with ice, stir the first four ingredients, top with cola
Bela Lugosi Cocktail
1½ oz. / 45 ml Gin
¾ oz. / 22 ml Cherry brandy liqueur
¾ oz. / 22 ml Sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Garnish with an Orange peel
Stir, chilled Nick and Nora glass, fine-strain
Halloween Punch
5 oz. / 150 ml Spiced lime rum
5 oz. / 150 ml Dark rum
16 oz. / 480 ml Cloudy apple juice
2⅓ oz. / 70 ml Fresh lemon juice, filtered
2⅓ oz. / 70 ml Honey syrup 2:1
Garnish with Orange and apple slices, cinnamon sticks and star anise
Mix in a large punch bowl, chill for 1–2 hours, serve over ice and top with tonic water, soda water, ginger ale or ginger beer
