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Tastes of Terror – October 22

October 22: Piranah Punch

This is quite possibly the most involved cocktail in this book. If you don’t feel like this much effort, simply omit the fish eggs and just have fish in your yellow pond.

Taste profile: tart, sour drink. Garnishes- sweet.

Fish Eggs (makes 8 Servings):

  • ½ cup small tapioca pearls (found in the baking aisle of most grocery stores)
  • yellow, green and blue food coloring
  • 4 tablespoons sugar
  • 8 cups water

Make the fish eggs: bring 6 cups of water to a boil and add the tapioca pearls.

Reduce the heat slightly and boil the pearls, stirring occasionally, for 20 to 25 minutes.

Color the eggs: divide the pearls, with the remaining water, between two bowls. Add 4 drops of food coloring (we used 3 drops of yellow and 1 drop of green in one bowl, and 4 drops of blue in the other) and 2 tablespoons of sugar to each bowl. Stir the mixtures, and then allow them to sit uncovered for 20 to 25 minutes. Drain and rinse the pearls with cold water.

Cocktail Ingredients:

  • 2 parts vodka
  • 1 part seltzer water
  • 2 parts lemonade
  • 8 gummy fish

Assembly:

Spoon 2 tablespoons of pearls (one from each color batch) into each glass and drop in a gummy fish.

Combine the vodka, lemonade and the seltzer separately and then add to the glass with the pearls and fish.

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Tastes of Terror – October 20

October 20: Pond Scum #18

Pond Scum is actually a series of drinks. Once upon a time I jokingly said that I would start at Pond Scum #100 and count down in versions until hitting #1 at which point the drink would be perfected. Many recipes have been lost to the drunken mists of time but here is one of the survivors that provided tasty results.

Taste profile: sweet with touches of bitter

Ingredients:

  • 1 part coffee liqueur
  • 1 part vodka
  • 1 part melon liqueur
  • 1 part orange juice
  • ½ part Dr. Pepper cola

Pour the coffee liqueur into the glass first; this is the mud at the bottom of your pond. Pour the remaining ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake vigorously then strain gently into the glass either using the side of the glass or over a spoon so as to not disturb the ‘mud’.

Do not stir in the glass when served. The ‘mud’ serves as a chaser to clear the palate from the fruit flavors.

If you would like to buy the book with all these recipes AND a horror story to go with each, you can get it from HERE in ebook form for only $1.

Tastes of Terror – October 19

October 19: Satan

This drink embodies a very old fashioned feel mixing rich alcohols and bitters.

Taste profile: bitter, sweet

Ingredients:

  • 1 ¾ parts bourbon
  • ½ part sweet vermouth
  • ¼ part Pernod
  • 1 dash Peychaud bitters

Mix all ingredients in an Old Fashioned glass over ice and stir. I normally place my dash of bitters directly on the ice first and then pour the remaining ingredients to better mix the flavors.

If you would like to buy the book with all these recipes AND a horror story to go with each, you can get it from HERE in ebook form for only $1.

Tastes of Terror – October 18

October 18: Mexican Murder Scene

When you want a south of the border fiesta of murder, this is your cocktail.
Taste profile: sour with sweet on the rim like a Margarita


Making the blood:
• 1 cup corn syrup
• 10 drops red food coloring
• 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
Drizzle the blood around the rim of your glass and allow the blood to ooze down the inside before adding alcohol.


Cocktail Ingredients:
• 1 ½ parts tequila
• 1 part lemon juice
• 4 parts grapefruit soda
Build the cocktail in a separate glass or your shaker, and then gently add it to bloody glass by pouring it over a spoon.

If you would like to buy the book with all these recipes AND a horror story to go with each, you can get it from HERE in ebook form for only $1.

Tastes of Terror – October 17

October 17: Mad Scientist

When combined, this drink is an evil greenish yellow color with red oozing down; exactly what you expect to see in the mad scientist’s lair.

Taste profile: sweet with touches of sour

Ingredients:

  • 1 part vodka
  • 1 part melon liqueur
  • 1 part margarita mix
  • 1 ½ parts pineapple juice
  • grenadine

In a glass over ice add the alcohol, margarita mix and juice. Stir and then drizzle grenadine over the top of the drink.

If you would like to buy the book with all these recipes AND a horror story to go with each, you can get it from HERE in ebook form for only $1.

Tastes of Terror – October 16

October 16: Lady Death

I consider the cinnamon brandy to be the Lady Death who cuts through the sweet citrus flavors of life with a bite of the afterworld. This drink is a nice mixture of competing flavors that provide a lovely aftertaste.

Taste profile: sweet balance by sour with a touch of piquancy from cinnamon.

Ingredients:

  • 1 part Grand Marnier
  • 1 part Cinnamon Brandy
  • 1 ½ parts lime juice
  • 1 ½ parts orange juice

Place all the ingredients into your shaker with ice. Shake it to the edge of death and strain into a rocks glass.

If you would like to buy the book with all these recipes AND a horror story to go with each, you can get it from HERE in ebook form for only $1.

Tastes of Terror – October 15

October 15: Jersey Devil Cocktail

Nothing evokes the feel of the Mid-Atlantic region for Halloween like apple pie and the Jersey Devil.

Taste profile: sweet with some piquancy.

Ingredients:

  • 1 part Apple Jack Brandy.
  • 1 part Cinnamon Schnapps.

Add the ingredients into a shaker with lump ice. Shake well, and strain into a Cocktail glass.

If you would like to buy the book with all these recipes AND a horror story to go with each, you can get it from HERE in ebook form for only $1.

Tastes of Terror – October 12

October 12: Green Snatcher

This drink is more yellow than green but who am I to argue, I merely provide what better bartenders than I have designed. Perhaps the Green Snatcher name comes from grabbing onto the grass after having too many.

Taste profile: sour and astringent with a bit of sweet to balance it.

Ingredients:

  • 1 ½ parts Galliano
  • fill with tonic
  • squirt of lime juice

Pour all the ingredients into an old fashioned glass over ice; stir and serve.

If you would like to buy the book with all these recipes AND a horror story to go with each, you can get it from HERE in ebook form for only $1.

Tastes of Terror – October 11

October 11: Gothic Punch

Having guests? This punch is designed to serve up to 10 people.

Taste profile: primarily sweet with a bit of sour

Ingredients:

  • 1 bottle (750ml) Grand Marnier
  • 4 quarts grape juice
  • 1 bottle (750ml) Claret
  • 3 oranges or 1 pineapple, cut up.
  • 10 tbsp sugar
  • 1 bottle (750ml) Champagne

I recommend that first you combine the sugar with the grape juice and stir until the sugar is dissolved. If you try this after it is added to the punchbowl, the ice will impede your ability to dissolve the sugar. Once the sugar is dissolved, mix all the liquids in a large punch bowl over ice and allow to stand for at least half an hour to fully chill.

Then add one bottle (750ml) of your favorite champagne and serve.

If you would like to buy the book with all these recipes AND a horror story to go with each, you can get it from HERE in ebook form for only $1.

Tastes of Terror – October 10

October 10: Floating Ghost

This is basically an Ice Cream Float for those of us who prefer liquor instead of straight soda.

Taste profile: sweet with the slightest hint of bitter from the coffee liqueur.

Ingredients:

  • 1 part dark rum
  • 1 part coffee liqueur
  • 1 part seltzer
  • 1 tbsp vanilla ice cream

Use a glass that has a bit more size than the volume of liquid to allow for the displacement of liquid when you add ice cream.

Place the alcohols into a glass and stir. Add the seltzer to give it a bit of life. Finally, float 1 tbsp vanilla ice cream (or better yet: scoop the ice cream using a melon baller to make it ball shaped to be your ‘ghost’).

If you would like to buy the book with all these recipes AND a horror story to go with each, you can get it from HERE in ebook form for only $1.