The occasion: Halloween night. The spot: your house. The scene: Your friends are in costume, there’s a chill in the air, and everyone is thirsty.
How do you guarantee your guests have a ghoul'd (sorry) time? Have the guts to go beyond the six pack and make these punches and batch-friendly Halloween cocktails.
1. Zombie Reviver
Add a graveyard’s worth of rum (and plenty of other booze) to tropical juices, then stand back: this cocktail gives the dead a good shaking.
2. Midnight Sparkler
Welcome nightfall with this devilishly delicious deep-blue sparkling sipper.
3. Fall Spritz
Flaming orange zest adds a truly special effect to cognac-laced hard cider.
4. Bloodied Belgian
Made with blood orange juice and Flemish-style sour ale, this creepily named cocktail hits all the right sweet and sour notes.
5. Corpse Reviver
A tart gin, Cointreau, and Lillet Blonde concoction with the power to raise the dead (or, at least, enliven any party).
6. Hot Toddies
Serve this festive, warming punch to welcome guests in from the cold.
7. Rye Witch
Rye whiskey, oranges, and Sherry mingle in this incomparably smooth drink.
8. Painful Punch
If you’re craving the blood-red fruitiness of a sangria but want a little more bite to it, this concoction—spiked with dark rum—will kill.
9. Mulled Wine
This spice-infused mulled wine is scarily easy to make.
10. The Green Vesper
Simple syrup is an easy way to add unexpected flavors—like, well, vegetables—to your drinks.
11. Mother's Ruin Punch
Tea-infused vermouth is a total game-changer here.
12. Bloody Beers
A dash of hot sauce absolutely makes this Michelada-like drink.
13. La Llorona
Dry ice lends an eerie trail of wispy smoke to this intoxicating, conversation-starting drink.
14. Witches' Brew
This punch pulls together chopped ginger, cranberry juice, and any spice you have on hand in a spicy and fizzy concoction. You’ll lose your head for it. (Literally?)
15. The Witching Hour
Activated charcoal makes this the darkest, spookiest, most magical cocktail you've ever seen. (Unless you're truly a witch, in which case you've probably seen tons of cocktails like this. #witchlife)
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