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October drinks – 2

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If you want to read the book and tales of terror that these drinks pair with, go HERE. It’s only $1 for the ebook.

OCTOBER 2: BLOOD COCKTAIL

While not the brilliant red that many use to make a blood drink, this
cocktail presents a dark, coagulating blood color that will cause your
vampire friends to salivate.
Begin by creating the blood to coat the inside of the glass. This drink
provides the best presentation if the glass is tall to allow the dripping blood
to be visible above the level of the cocktail.
Taste Profile: astringent, balanced by sweet juice and rum. The whiskey
may be sweet or bitter depending on the style and brand chosen.

Making the Blood:
· 1 cup corn syrup
· 10 drops red food coloring
· 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
This makes much more blood than you’ll need for one drink but who
can drink just one? Drizzle the blood around the rim of your glass (turning
the glass sideways will allow you to drip the blood just inside the rim and
then rotate the glass to cover the entire rim). Allow the blood to ooze down
the inside before adding alcohol. Be careful not to get the blood on the
outside of the glass otherwise you’ll have a sticky mess that no one will
want to hold.

Cocktail Ingredients:
· 3 parts cranberry juice
· 1 ½ parts apple juice
· 1 ½ parts grape juice
· 1 part dark rum
· 1 part whiskey
· 1 part cola


In an ice filled shaker, combine all the ingredients except the cola and
shake until the blood chills and screams for release. Pour gently into the coated
glass then add the cola

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October drinks – 1

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Around the time I wrote A Taste for Drink I also put together a book of short horror stories and drinks to go with them called 31 Tastes of Terror .

I love Halloween and even though it’s still over a month away, I’m going to start sharing my october drinks from that book. Here’s the one for October 1st.

If you want to read the book and tales of terror that these drinks pair with, go HERE. It’s only $1 for the ebook.

October 1: Howling Banshee

This drink makes for a wonderful presentation. Depending on the color of the sweet & sour mix, you may achieve more blue or green as the overall color. If presented in a martini glass, the sugar rimmed glass makes this drink perfect for a high-class party.

Taste profile: mostly sweet with a touch of sour to tone it down.

Ingredients:

  • 2 parts rum
  • 1 part Blue Curacao
  • 1 part sweet & sour mix
  • ½ Tsp black sugar (see directions below)

In a shaker with ice, combine the rum, curacao and sweet & sour mix and shake vigorously.

Moisten the rim of the glass with a wedge of lemon and dip the rim of the glass into the bowl containing the colored sugar. I don’t recommend twisting the glass to coat the rim although some bartenders swear by it, experiment and determine what works best for you. Once the glass is rimmed, strain the drink into the glass.

Making the colored sugar:

  • ½ cup sugar
  • Black food coloring

Place the sugar in a bowl and add several drops of the food coloring. Mix the color into the sugar using a silicone spatula. Continue adding several drops at a time until you achieve a smooth color.

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Ice Volcano of the Sheep God – a drink with a story

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About 10 years ago, the original ATFD was destroyed in a server crash. I’ve found it on the Wayback machine, but after digging through many pages, this was the only one I managed to recover.

This drink was part of a competition that my entire group entered at an event for the Society for Creative Anachronism called the Pennsic War way back in 2014. And yes, that’s how we dressed for the competition.

Today we present a Tiki drink.

So what makes a Tiki drink?

A cocktail as would have been served in the heyday of “Don the Beachcomber”, “Waikiki Beach”, or “Trader Vic’s” in the 1930′s-1960′s. Elaborate concoctions of Rum and juice with homemade Syrups and Bitters. High Octane and theatrically presented in tiki statues, coconuts, or other outrageous glasses with umbrellas, fruit spears, garlands, garnish, oh, and lest we forget – FIRE.”

On vacation one summer, I entered a Tiki drink competition. My team and I came in third. Not my best showing, but it was a blast. Had lots of compliments on my drink, but I lost because I blew it on my presentation.

Never try a novel, previously untried, method to set a drink on fire when it counts. I flubbed the ignition of my volcano and left the crowd wanting. Although it was fun as hell as we tried over and over to light the drink. Imagine if you will, multiple men and women standing behind your panicking bartender, dancing their hearts out like they’re in an old King Kong movie.

Finally, my lovely wife handed me a cup made of an orange peel and had me use that instead of the ring I was using, and woosh! Fire.

Anywho, here’s the drink. Enjoy it as the perfect summer drink that it is. It will inspire dreams of the islands when Fall covers the land.

Ingredients and construction

First, use a blender to crush ice with 2 parts each of pineapple and either passion fruit or mango juice and 2 parts amber rum. If you can’t make shaved or crushed ice, don’t sweat it, we worked with cubes in the field.

Build in a wide-mouth glass.

Pour the blended frozen mixture into the glass.

Drizzle grenadine and a couple dashes of Pechaud’s bitters on this

Vigorously shake 1 part coconut milk until it’s frothy and float this on the mixture in the glass.

Float 1/2 part black strap rum.

Float an orange peel cup. (trust me, use a cup not a ring, about a 1/3 section of orange skin will make a nice bowl)

Fill the peel with 151 or overproof rum and ignite. Remember to shout: “Volcano – BOOM”

Remember to blow out the flame before you adorn with an umbrella and fruits

Until next time, may all your drinks be tasty. Cheers.