Drinky Drink: Spooky Cocktails

There’s a cat in one corner, Steve Jobs in another, a pair of life-size salt and pepper shakers across from you. Obscene amounts of candy amass on top of tables and your roommates have decorated the common room with orange and black streamers. This means it’s Halloween and Halloween calls for some spooky alcoholic drinks. Here are some of FM’s favorites:

THE JACK-O-LANTERN
1.5 oz. orange juice
0.5 oz. ginger ale
Orange wheel, for garnish
Add the brandy, orange juice, and ginger ale into a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour the concoction into a martini glass, and garnish with an orange wheel. Depending on preference, this garnish can easily be replaced with a human eyeball for some surprising texture. The concoction is sweet and bubbly and can be used to soothe the wickedness boiling inside you.

IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT
2 oz. dark rum
3 oz. ginger beer
3 oz. Guinness Stout
0.5 oz. lime juice
Combine the rum, ginger beer, Guinness, and lime juice in a glass (or cauldron) full of ice cubes. Stir, as an evil cackle escapes from your lips. The richness of the smooth rum mingles perfectly with spice of the ginger beer—good for witches who like pumpkin spice lattes, or just Guinness.

THE BLACK WIDOW
1.5 oz. black vodka
0.5 oz. cranberry juice
1 cherry, for garnish
Sugar crystals, for rim
Rim a small glass with the sugar crystals, and fill with ice cubes. Pour cranberry juice over the ice and then add the black vodka to float on top. Garnish with a cherry, and revel in how dark and bloody your creation looks; though, actually, the drink is just bloody good.