Before you discount Halloween festivities to another weekend on the 2020 calendar - because celebrating is going to look a lot different this year - we think you should reconsider. Say, with a virtual “Boos and Booze” party?
We’ve collected a full list of recommendations, from the local New York City neighborhood bar - shout out to small, local businesses - to the Old Fashioned so that your Halloween is festive with craft cocktail recipes that will dress up your weekend’s traditional spirit of choice. Get creative with your garnish art - a fruity jack-o-lantern - indulge in chocolate and experiment with candy corn flavors. Pour your creativity into these Halloween spirits and learn how to make a frightening delicious drink this season.
To start, assemble the bar from your kitchen - a set of whiskey glasses, a jigger, a bottle of Misunderstood, and your mixologist state of mind to celebrate Halloween with a themed booze recipe, or two. These treats will easily establish a new normal - and perhaps you’ll find tradition in a terrifyingly tasty drink.
OMG (OH MY GOURD) AKA PUMPKIN SPICED OLD FASHIONED
Ingredients:
2 dashes of orange bitters
2 dashes of walnut bitters
A bar spoon of maple syrup
A bar spoon of pumpkin butter
1 fresh orange peel
Grated nutmeg
Add Misunderstood Ginger Spiced Whiskey, orange bitters, walnut bitters, and pumpkin butter into a mixing glass of ice. Stir the cocktail mixture until chilled (around 30 turns.) Strain ingredients over a large ice cube in a drinking glass and garnish with an orange peel sprinkled with nutmeg.
Boo-levardier
*Recipe is originally seen on Travel and Leisure, with alterations from us!
Ingredients:
1.5 oz of Misunderstood Ginger Spiced Whiskey
.75 oz of Campari
.75 oz of sweet vermouth
3 dashes of chocolate bitters
1 orange peel
Stir the whiskey, Campari, vermouth, and chocolate bitters with ice and strain the cocktail into a glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
Hot Blooded
*Recipe is originally seen on Forbes by Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery lead mixologist Rachel Ramirez, with alterations from us!
Ingredients:
1 cup (8 oz) of freshly squeezed blood orange juice
2 tablespoons of agave
1 medium jalapeño
Add the blood orange juice, agave, whiskey into a cocktail shaker and stir until ingredients are mixed. Add the stems of the jalapeño and discard the rest of the pepper. Cap the shaker and shake the ingredients together three times. Pour contents into a highball glass filled with ice and remove the jalapeños.
The Midnight Hour
*Recipe is originally seen on Vogue, by Top of the Standard, with alterations from us!
Ingredients:
1.5 oz of pumpkin puree
.5 oz of vanilla syrup
.75 oz of chilled espresso
.75 oz of creamer
Add ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until mixed smoothly. Pour into a chilled highball glass. Dust with espresso powder.
Morton's Candy Corn Old Fashion
*Recipe is originally seen on Town and Country Magazine by Morton’s The Steakhouse, with alterations from us!
Ingredients:
3 dashes of Orange Bitters
1 Orange Slice
.5 oz of Candy Corn Syrup
Muddle orange, syrup, and bitters in an antique Old Fashion Glass. Fill the glass with ice to the rim and pour the whiskey. Garnish with 5 pieces of candy corn.
