The run-up to Halloween offers a perfect opportunity for retailers and bar managers to inspire sales and create supernatural sips for their adult consumers. A few ideas  to showcase sprints are offered in advance, scaring up tastes and sales.

 

Sailor Jerry Candy Apple

• 2 parts Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
• 8 parts warm (real) apple cider
• Stir ingredients. Garnish with Cinnamon stick.
• Serve in desired tempered after dinner glassware.

 

 

 

 

 

Pumpkin Ginger Shandy

• 1½ parts Toasted Walnut-Infused Drambuie
• ½ part Monkey Shoulder Scotch
• ¼ part Lemon Juice
• ¼ tsp Fresh Ginger
• 4-5 parts Pumpkin Ale
• Garnish with Skewered Candied Ginger. Serve in long glass.
• Toasted Walnut-Infused Drambuie: Toast nuts over medium heat until browned and you can easily smell toasted aroma. For every 1 part of Drambuie add 1/2 part of Toasted nuts. Let infuse in airtight container for 24 hours. Strain and reserve for use.

 

 

Dark & Stormy (Cocktail)

• 4 oz. Gin
• 2 oz. Pomegranate Juice
• 1 Lemon
• 2 oz Simple Syrup
• Colored Raw Cane Sugar
• Combine gin, pomegranate juice and simple syrup in a large shaker, then add lemon juice. Shake in iced cocktail shaker for at least 30 seconds, then carefully pour the combined liquids into colored sugar-rimmed glasses in equal portions. For an added “stormy” effect, add a small cube of dry ice to each glass. Recipe courtesy of Let’s Eat Sonoma.

 

 

 

Ghostly Brew

• Q Ginger Beer
• 3 mint leaves, muddled
• 1 ½ part Bluecoat Gin
• ¾ part lime juice
• ½ part ginger syrup
• Shaken and strained over ice. Top with Q Drinks Ginger Beer.

 

 

 

Bat’s Blood Martini

• 1 ½ oz. Skyy Pineapple Infusion
• ½ oz. Canton Ginger Liqueur
• 1 ½ oz. Pineapple Juice
• 1 ½ oz. Pomegranate Juice
• Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with pineapple clip. Recipe courtesy of Southern Glazer’s.

 

 

 

 

 

The Pennywise 

• 1 oz KAS Krupnikas Buckwheat Honey
• 1 oz of Campari
• 2 oz blood orange juice
• Club soda
  Shake KAS, Campari, blood orange juice on ice and strain into glass with ice. Top with club soda and garnish with blood orange wheel.