And it sounds like a U2 song but here BourbonBlog.com presents a Basil Hayden’s Bourbon cocktail which brings zesty orange juice together with floral aromas of creme de violette and Basil Hayden’s for cocktail to bewitch your senses. Basil Hayden’s teamed up with Daniel Hyatt, one of San Francisco’s top mixologists, to create the ultimate Halloween treat.

Daniel’s Bloody Sunday combines zesty orange juice, the floral aromas of crème de violette, and Basil Hayden’s Bourbon to create an enchanting cocktail that is bursting with flavor.

Bloody Sunday Recipe

1 1/2 parts Basil Hayden’s Bourbon
1/2 part Orange Juice
1/2 part Grenadine
1 dash Peychaud’s Bitters
1 barspoon of Crème de Violette
1/2 Vanilla Bean

Shake bourbon, orange juice and bitters with ice Strain into cordial glass Sink the Creme de Violette and slowly drizzle grenadine over the top Place one half of a split of vanilla bean in glass and stir

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Loosing your eyesight could be a scary thing during Halloween, but you have nothing to fear with Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshines of Gatlinburg, which they tell us is the first legal distillery in Tennessee.

Spook your guests with stories of moonshiners past while sipping on the frightfully delicious spirit.

BourbonBlog.com brings you Ole Smoky Moonshine Halloween cocktails…

Vampire Cherry Recipe

1 oz Ole Smoky Moonshine
2 oz cola (Dr. Pepper recommended)
1 oz simple syrup
garnish with 2 or 3 Moonshine Cherries

White Ghost Recipe

1 oz. Ole Smoky Original Moonshine (good ole 100 proof un-aged corn whiskey)
2 oz. lemon lime soda

serve over ice
garnish with Ole Smoky Moonshine Cherries or a licorice stick

Harvest Moon Recipe
2 oz. Ole Smoky Apple Pie Moonshine
1/2 ounce Ole Smoky Original Moonshine (Corn Whiskey)
1 oz. orange soda

serve over ice and garnish with a cinnamon stick

Bobbin’ for Apples Recipe

2 oz. Ole Smoky Apple Pie Moonshine
2 oz. ginger ale
1 teaspoon lime juice
1 teaspoon Triple Sec

garnish with apple wedge and cinnamon stick

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The pumpkin jack-o-lantern is the ultimate expression of Haloween.

The Pumpkin Smash cocktail is the Halloween cocktail you can make at home, bring it over, serve it up, and impress your friends. Pumpkin, cinnamon, it’s as good as pie and balanced with this fine rum that BourbonBlog.com recommends…

Pumpkin Smash Cocktail Recipe

1 ¼ Frangelico
1 ¼ oz Flor De Caña 7 year Rum
¾ oz pumpkin puree (may use canned pumpkin)

Dry shake, shake with 3 ice cubes and strain out into a martini glass. Garnish with sprinkle of ground clove or nutmeg.

**Pumpkin Puree
Take one 15 oz can of Libby’s 100% pure pumpkin, add 1 tsp of ground cinnamon, 1/2 tsp of ground ginger, 1/4 tsp of ground cloves and 15 oz of simple syrup and blend it all together in a blender. Store in the fridge.

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BourbonBlog.com brings you a LUCID Absinthe cocktail as a tribute to Paranormal Activity. Don’t be afraid to drink it, LUCID Absinthe was responsible for lifting the 100 year absinthe ban in America is adding a sinister spin to your Halloween this year. Does drinking Absinthe lead
to hallucinations and Paranormal Activity?

Paranormal Activity Cocktail Recipe

1 part LUCID Absinthe
1 part White Creme de Cacao
1 part Coconut Milk
Drizzle of Black Sambucca

Combine LUCID, White Creme de Cacao and Coconut Milk in a shaker filled with ice. Shake till Frothy and strain into a short rocks glass over ice. Drizzle Black Sambucca down the side of the glass until it floats on the bottom and diffuses through the cocktail.

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Candy, one of the most popular Halloween candies we’ve made into a cocktail…so we’ll call it “Candy Corn.”

Invented in the 1880s, candy companies now produce nearly 35 million pounds of the corn candy each year. So spot on, one sip of this cocktail might make you forget you aren’t actually eating candy corn, you’re drinking you little Goblin. Russian Standard Vodka nicely to the kettle-corn infusion, and this cocktail will really pop on your pages, with its orange and yellow ingredients.

Candy Corn Cocktail Recipe

1 1/2 oz. Candy Corn-infused Russian Standard Vodka **
1/2 oz. Moscato wine (sweet dessert wine)
3/4 oz. home-made citrus peel grenadine syrup**

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake very well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

*to make candy corn-infused Russian Standard: for every 750ml bottle of Russian Standard, add in 1 cup cande corn and allow to infused in an airtight container for approx. 24 hrs. Fine strain candy corn and re-bottle. Store in fridge.
**to make grenadine syrup: for every 1 cup of POM wonderful pomegranate juice, dissolve 1 cup granulated sugar over stove top. Once dissolved, add in the skins of 1 orange and 1 lemon and simmer for 10 mins. Remove skins and chill syrup.

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