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Tastes of Terror – October 20

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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.

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Tastes of Terror – October 16

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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.

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Tastes of Terror – October 14

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October 14: Beast’s Breakfast

In appearance this drink is reminiscent of an inverted Tequila Sunrise with bubbles.

Taste profile: sweet with a hint of sour and astringent

Ingredients:

  • 2 parts rum
  • 1 part orange juice, not from concentrate
  • 1 part unsweetened pineapple juice
  • 1 part ginger ale
  • ¼ part cranberry juice concentrate (or grenadine)

In your trusty shaker filled with ice, mix rum, orange juice and pineapple juice and shake as if trying to wake the dead.

Pour this mixture into your glass until it is 2/3 full.

Fill the remainder of the glass with ginger ale.

Drizzle with the cranberry juice concentrate (or grenadine) to provide a diffusing blood effect. Cranberry is preferred for the flavor but grenadine will suffice in a pinch.

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.