Greetings,

My spouse and I are eagerly awaiting the celebration of Halloween, and I wanted to write to inquire if the community here has recommendations for especially pined-after beverages that celebrate this morbid conviviality.

(In addition to absinthe, of course).

Been thinking about this myself lately. A few classic cocktails that come to mind immediately:

Bloody Mary
Obituary
Corpse Reviver #2
Zombie (Donn the Beachcomber's original recipe, of course!)
Rusty Nail
Death in the Afternoon
Diablo


Edited as more occur to me!

My traditional All Hallows libation is a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon. There are several fine wine boutiques here, many fine choices available.

My wife has ruled out the DITA (a year ago or so, one was more than enough for her...and I mean MORE than enough). The corpse reviver #2 seems interesting.

Time to make a shopping list.

A damn fine cocktail. And if you really want to make the evening interesting, I suggest adding the Obituary to the menu as well. That, like the Zombie, is guaranteed to unrevive the corpse again in short order.

Hiram's Mephisto is another good option.

What Brian said!

Hiram's Swamp Gas sounds like good old fashioned fun.



I know there are at least a half dozen ways for that one to go, but I'll pass.


Phbb.

ill be doing orange colored hot chocolate with mint schnapps topped with black whipped cream.

Lucid's website has a recipe called wolf's bite, which looks cool. It's green on the bottom with a burnt red at the top.

looks like a nice shot to serve at a party

Yay, absinthe shots.

Last year at my Halloween party I decided to do one Brain Hemorrhage shot as a demo, just to gross people out. But it turns out they actually taste pretty good, and I wound up making a bunch of them.

You can't really call it an absinthe shot when its not straight absinthe, its more of an absinthe inspired trip to the percaline god This one most definatly needs to be drank with responsibility. Don't let the frat boys get their hands on this.

It doesn't look gross, but the thought of drinking it... ughhh...

Ok, so I'm curious...what's it made of...

I love brain hemorrhages, and they dont look far off from the real thing which is what makes it so great

But remember if you use top shelf stuff to make them you should refer to them in a more soficticated way, Cerebral Hemorrhage

I hope that drink tastes good because it sure looks bad. To be fair though, I've not tried that drink..........yet.

Better check into that, it might be an early sign of a cerebral hemorrhage.

If it doesn't look gross, you aren't doing it right.

Pour 1 oz. Peach Schnapps into a shotglass.

Pour in 1 tsp. Bailey's Irish Cream. It will form a curdled mass floating on top of the schnapps which pretty convincingly looks like brain matter.. If you can find a glass about the size of a shotglass, but with the shape of a brandy snifter, it will be ideal, because it forces the curdled Bailey's mass into the shape of an actual brain.

Slowly add 2 or 3 drops of grenadine directly into the curdled Bailey's mass. The Bailey's will contain the first drop or two of grenadine, but by the third drop, it will burst out of the bottom of the Bailey's "brain" and sink to the bottom in a revolting re-enactment of an actual cerebral hemorrhage. The photo above was taken after this had happened.

This is a true Shooter. Do NOT sip this drink. If shot in a single go, all the tastes converge at once, and the drink is universally well-liked. If you try to sip it, you'll get only a mouthful of curdled Bailey's.

Just like the Irish Carbomb. Never meant to be taken slowly.

Nope, no worries. The intelligence may have hemorrhaged out but the blood is all where it belongs

My metalhead buddies have a different name for that shot: The Botched Abortion.


(sorry pro-life people)

Picking the right costume is just as important as picking the right cocktail.

That's just sad.

Thanks for the costume tip joe. Now to find one in my size.

I think I need the one where I can't prance, yeah, that's it.

You ain't right my friend.

I know. I'm blaming it on the Wussy Flu.

Truth be told, I fell for it. I thought the video was legit until about half way through it. My blood pressure was going through the roof until they dumped the blood on the kid.

An interesting drink.

What about the Yellow Fairy? Just think, one could put the concoction on shaved ice and call it Yellow Snow. Throw a dash of grenadine on top of that for a frightful Halloween twist.




BAM!