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The Halloween Cocktail!

I've been reading Halloween cocktail recipes for years, and since drinking heavily was most certainly in the cards after the week I've had, it seemed like a good time to stop reading and start making.

I found the recipe over at this site. I wish it had a cool name like "Agent Orange" or "Sunshine Reaper," but the site only refers to it as a "Halloween Cocktail." Am I allowed to rename cocktails if I swiped the recipes? Let's pretend I am. This is an "Agent Orange." It's wonderful.

Combine two ounces of bourbon, three ounces of orange juice and the juice of half of a lemon in a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a glass full of ice. Top it off with some ginger ale. (The recipe doesn't specify how much ginger ale, so let's just say "to taste.")

I only drink whiskey when I have absolutely no idea that it's in what I'm drinking, so I had some reservations, but this is delicious. It tastes almost exactly like a Navy Grog, which makes no sense at all since Navy Grogs have an entirely different set of ingredients. The truth is, I just like writing the word "grog."

Wondering how this drink ties in with Halloween? The official recipe calls for unpitted olives with pumpkin faces carved on as the garnish. YES. YES, YES YES. I've never known olives to be a candidate for garnish in a fruity whiskey drink, but I will never, ever argue with an excuse to carve olives up like jack o' lanterns. Oh, the fun I had.

Unfortunately, you'll need all of the above to whip up a batch of Halloween Cocktails Agent Oranges. Still totally worth it. I love blaming alcoholism on Halloween enthusiasm.

Your challenge: Raid your liquor cabinet and search online. I guarantee that you'll find at least one Halloween-themed cocktail to enjoy using whatever you've already got. Well, unless you're fifteen. And you very well may be, since I usually just write about toys and candy. For the rest of you, I can think of no better way to spend this perfect dead leaf evening than with a glass full of something evilly named. Good luck!

Posted by Matt on 10/02/2009. E-mail me!



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Never been a fan of mixed drinks. I prefer wine.

If I sit here reading “The Raven,” staring at my authentic bust of Pallas Athena (that’s the statue that the title character sits on in the poem), and drinking a glass of fine ruby port, is that Halloweenie enough?

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/02/2009 11:09 PM

I’m only 15 plus five. :(

I can pretend though.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 10/02/2009 11:12 PM

It’s okay Darth. I’d trade places if I could!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/02/2009 11:13 PM

My personal Halloween favorite that is loosely related is
C3PO:
dash Cointreau, 1/2Peach schnapps, 1/2peppermint schnapps, 1 part pineapple juice, 1 part orange juice.
Captain Crunch:
Tequila Rose, Vanilla schnapps, Kahlua, cream, grenadine (equal parts)

Do

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 10/02/2009 11:17 PM

My wife and I had a halloween themed wedding and we had them create a drink for it it was called vampires kiss if anyone is interested Ill try to post the ingredients tommorrow in the comments. Matt I love the siteI come everyday keep up the good work.

Chestnuts roasted by joker9866 @ 10/02/2009 11:26 PM

I see at least 5 ingrediants on your countertop,yet only one is really necessary.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 10/02/2009 11:30 PM

I miss those Black Nazis that were suggested a couple of years ago.

Jagermeister and Mountain Dew Pitch Black II. RIP, delicious MT Dew.

From you guys who said hello in the last thread, hello to you here, things are going great. 9 more months and I’m a married man!

Matt,

No offense, but those olives turned out a bit better than the trix-o-lantern. Maybe you’re better off free-handing, you should try to free-hand your own trix rabbit, I bet it’d look killer! If you’re not much of a whisky drinker, you should try Maker’s Mark, it might change your mind. I bet it’d be stellar in Agent Oranges.

I read through the posts since you introduced George and his new digs, but either I missed the update on how he’s doing or it just wasn’t there. How is he?

Chestnuts roasted by nork @ 10/02/2009 11:37 PM

nork: Welcome back! Ironically, I used an exacto to make these olives. (Which people suggested I use on the Trix O’Lantern.)

George is doing pretty good. He’s a strange crab, but he seems as happy as a moon crab living alone in a weird tank could be.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/02/2009 11:39 PM

hey joker9866, I’d be interested in that recipe. I’m getting married exactly one year from today, and we’re having a spooky wedding. We’ve got zombie bride and groom cake toppers, and a drink called Vampire’s Kiss sounds awesome!!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 10/02/2009 11:45 PM

Thanks!

It’s awesome to see this site alive again, the Halloween decorations look great!

I’m super pumped for Halloween this year. I’m in a new house in a neighborhood full of kids, my last neighborhood we literally had 3-4 groups of trick-or-treaters the entire night and I’m pretty sure one of the groups was a repeat. Very disappointing, especially considering we were dressed up and had the garage open with strobe lights, spooky decorations, and creepy sounds going that should have been fun for the kids, had they shown.

Cameron

If you’re a big fan of The Raven, you might like this: http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=5230

Chestnuts roasted by nork @ 10/02/2009 11:51 PM

Matt, why you gotta be inspiring me with cocktail ideas now? I drank nearly all the liquor I had in two intense nights in the summer, and never regretted it until now. All I’ve got left are things that taste like oranges, bananas or Chinatown.

Chestnuts roasted by Tutsuro @ 10/02/2009 11:57 PM

Well, I just like saying the word “smock”.
Or, wait, that wasn’t me. That was someone else.

Chestnuts roasted by eric @ 10/03/2009 12:01 AM

hmm..not really a drinker, but I have this strange interest in mixed drinks that I don’t really understand, maybe it’s the odd names…which gets me to thinking, what would be in a Giant Ape Juice?

Chestnuts roasted by SevenYearsThisSunday @ 10/03/2009 12:08 AM

I think Grape Pucker and Sprite should factor into a Giant Ape Juice. I don’t know dick about mixing drinks though, although I too am fascinated by drink recipes. My mom gave me a book of em when I was like 17 (thanks Mom) and my favorite that I tried was a Sloe Comfortable Screw. Mostly because it’s fun to say.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 10/03/2009 12:19 AM

I’m not much of a drinker either. But I do need to get a hold of some white wine because it seems like every damn recipe I come across lately calls for it.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 10/03/2009 12:32 AM

Curse the age barrier! At least I still have terrible B movies to enjoy.

Chestnuts roasted by PlantMonster @ 10/03/2009 1:12 AM

Just yesterday I found out that Alice Cooper is playing here in 5 days. I now have my ticket:)

Chestnuts roasted by Cheetara @ 10/03/2009 1:17 AM

I might whip up an Agent Orange sometime, but I wonder if the olives are a necessity to get the full effect or if I can make do without them. I just hate those things, even if they are jack-o-olives.

That C3P0 that Bill was talking about sounds pretty good too.

Years ago before I knew squat about booze, I was DJ’ing a Halloween gig with like 4 other DJ’s and we decided to invent drinks named after all of us. We drew up a cool little spooky drink menu and also had drinks using dry ice so they were all smokey and everything. Anyways, I thought it would be cool to have a mixture of orange juice, cranberry, and vodka. Sounded good to me. Little did I know that already existed and is called a Madris. Well, for that night it was called a DJ D. Of course I just vainly wanted to see pretty girls go up to the bar all night and order one of me.

Cheetara: Way to go. I’ve always wanted to see him. I’m kind of bummed because The Psychedelic Furs played in Charlotte tonight and I really wanted to see them but didn’t have the time/money. Instead I went to work, stopped by Target, came home, ate dinner, and took a nap. Now I’m up again and talking to you nutballs. I guess that’s not so bad though.

Same thing we do every night, Pinky.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 10/03/2009 1:36 AM

The most recent Halloween issue of Martha Stewart’s magazine includes several halloween themed cocktail recipes, including one for lemonade that uses black icecubes that slowly turn your drink from clear to inky black. I’m determined to use that this year.

Chestnuts roasted by Kitten @ 10/03/2009 2:06 AM

Halloween cocktail, easy, find one of the flavors of Halloween Jones Soda, and add vodka!

Need to think of a fancy way to serve them, or some other types of alcohol which might compliment them.

Chestnuts roasted by Tresjolie9 @ 10/03/2009 2:37 AM

SevenYearsThisSunday
To be smart,Giant Apes. :P

Actually, if I was gonna make a cocktail and call it Giant Ape Juice….hmm, vodka, grenadine, club soda and orange bitters….ne?

Oh, and watch out for that early fascination with the names and the flair of bartending. I started with Cocktail Time on Tiki Island, a far too addictive game linked off this site. 6 months down the road I’ve got a shaker, $400 worth of staple liquors and liqueurs and an itch in the back of my mind to order Cherry Heering from Germany to make a Singapore Sling.

Then school started, I stopped making money, and I lost a lot of interest.

Chestnuts roasted by Tutsuro @ 10/03/2009 2:39 AM

Agent Orange looks to be a sweet drink (though I think “Sunshine Reaper” is more Halloween-y). Good to see you got a bottle of Knob Creek during the Drought of 2009. :) I’ll need something like that to take the edge off from the parents visiting the wife and I this weekend.

Although, I really can’t complain about Tresjolie9‘s suggestion of Jones+vodka, especially since in the last few years Jones has all but printed on the label, “Here, mix alcohol with these!”

Chestnuts roasted by Mike \ @ 10/03/2009 2:46 AM

Hmm, can’t say I’m a drinker, but if I was, I’d be a whiskey drinker. I’ve had it a few times and it tasted good.
Eager to see the contest winners.

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 10/03/2009 3:14 AM

I don’t drink, but I can think of a few Halloween-themed beverages I’d like to try. They have Oreo cookie milkshakes, so why not make one with Halloween Oreos? Also, tonight I had a pumpkin pie shake from Jack in the Box. It’s not really Halloween-themed, but it is tasty!

Chestnuts roasted by Hoverbored @ 10/03/2009 3:44 AM

The perfect Halloween drink is Whiskey and Apple Cider. It’s just perfect seasonal happiness.

Chestnuts roasted by WesGrotesk @ 10/03/2009 5:39 AM

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