Wicked Brews | 13 Halloween Drinks with Bourbon
Spook up your party with wickedly delicious Halloween drinks with bourbon! Cheers to chills with these hauntingly rich and delicious bourbon-based flavors. 🎃🥃
Halloween Drinks with Bourbon.
This Halloween, we’re stirring up something a little stronger than potions—bourbon is our spirit of choice for crafting deliciously haunted cocktails! From cursed barrels to phantom sips, these drinks are designed to warm your bones, tickle your taste buds, and send chills down your spine. Whether you’re planning a ghostly gathering or just need a wickedly good drink for the season, bourbon is the perfect base for concoctions to enchant, thrill, and maybe even spook you a little.
So, grab your cauldron (or cocktail shaker), and let’s brew up some bourbon-based magic. Here are some devilishly delicious drinks to make your Halloween night spirited in more ways than one!
What You Need to Make Halloween Drinks with Bourbon.
As far as equipment goes, this is a list of items that will be helpful but not required by any means. If you do not have something, improvise and have fun!
- Mixology kit (e.g. cocktail shaker, muddler, strainer, mixing glass, long spoon)
- Cocktail lasses such as:
- Old fashioned glass (rocks glass)
- Highball glass
- Coupe glass
- Whatever you have in your kitchen!
- Ice cubes or crushed ice
Tips to Make Spooky Cocktails.
- Use dry ice.
- Add a plastic spider, gummy eyeball, skeleton key, spider webs or any props you have.
- Use food coloring gel.
- Add a black sugar rim when appropriate.
- Make it into a themed cocktail by adding elements of your favorite scary movie.
- Give it your own spooky twist with fun garnishes for the perfect Halloween cocktail.
Sidenote: If using dry ice be sure to wear gloves, only use a small amount in each glass, and to ensure the ice has completely dissolved (no smoke) before consuming. It will give you a beautifully chilled delicious drink. While this ingredient is perfect for the Halloween spirit, it must be used cautiously.
#1 Black Cat Bourbon Smash.
- ½ oz fresh lime juice
- 5 fresh blackberries
- 2 oz bourbon
- ¼ oz honey or simple syrup
- Sparkling Lime & Yuzu or ginger beer
- 1 sprig fresh mint
- Black sugar for rim
Rim a rocks glass with sugar, then add blueberries and muddle. Add lime juice, honey, bourbon and ice and stir gently. Top with sparkling Lime and Yuzu. Slap the fresh mint on your hand a couple of times and add. Enjoy this delicious blackberry bourbon Halloween cocktail!
Note the mint is not muddled into any drink. This is because muddling causes a bitter taste. Instead, a quick slap or gentle rub will release the herbs flavor and smells without added bitterness to the cocktail.
#2 Haunted Oak Bourbon.
- 4 oz strongly brewed chai tea
- 1 oz bourbon
- ¼ oz amaretto
- ¼ oz cointreau
- 2 oz milk frothed (froth optional)
- Lemon wedge with cloves (garnish)
To a heat-resistant glass, pour hot chai tea, then add bourbon, amaretto, and cointreau. Stir gently. Pour frothed milk and garnish as desired. Enjoy!
#3 Phantom Velvet Sip.
- 2 oz bourbon
- 1 oz crème de cacao
- 1 oz heavy cream
- ½ oz simple syrup
- Dash of cinnamon
- Chocolate syrup (optional)
- Edible glitter (optional)
Prepare a glass by drizzling chocolate syrup inside and around it. Then, to a cocktail shaker, add bourbon, crème de cacao, heavy cream, cinnamon and ice. Shake vigorously until cold then pour into prepared glass. Stir in glitter and top with a pinch of nutmeg and enjoy!
#4 Horse’s Neck.
- 2 oz bourbon
- 2-3 dashes of angostura bitters
- 5 oz chilled ginger ale
- Lemon peel (optional)
Fill a highball glass with ice and add lemon peel in a spiral. Pour bourbon and bitters and top with chilled ginger ale. Enjoy!
*This cocktail is great with rye whiskey as well, in place of bourbon.
#5 The Smokey Godfather.
- 2 oz bourbon
- 1 oz amaretto
- 1 cinnamon stick
Prepare old fashioned glass with ice. To a shaker with ice, add bourbon and amaretto and shake until cold (about 15 seconds). Strain into prepared glass and garnish with a smokey cinnamon stick or smoking chips. Enjoy this smooth simple cocktail!
#6 The Eerie Elixir.
- 2 ½ oz bourbon
- ½ oz ginger syrup (or syrup of choice)
- Mint sprigs
To a copper mug (or any glass that holds cold, preferably) add bourbon and syrup. Stir gently and add ice. Slap the mint on your hand and add to the drink. To make it spookier, add dyed syrup with a syringe. Enjoy!
#7 Midnight Shadow.
- 2 oz bourbon
- 1 oz dark crème de cacao
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- Black food gel coloring (optional)
- Edible glitter (optional)
Chill a cocktail glass. Combine ingredients in a glass and refrigerate until cold (about 1 hour). Add to a shaker with ice and shake vigorously, then strain into chilled glass. Enjoy!
#8 The Cursed Barrel.
- 2 ½ tbsp brown sugar
- ¼ tsp all spice
- 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp butter (softened)
- 4 oz hot water
- 2 oz bourbon
- Whipped cream (optional)
Make the butter paste by combining soft butter, all spice, cinnamon and brown sugar. Place it in the fridge while you heat up water. Combine hot water and 1 tbsp of the butter paste in a mug, stirring until dissolved. Stir in bourbon and vanilla then top with whipped cream and cinnamon. Enjoy!
#9 Ghostly Sunrise.
- 2 oz bourbon
- 1 oz orange liqueur
- 1 oz freshly squeezed fruit juice of choice
- Champagne
To a flute glass, add bourbon, orange liqueur and juice of choice. Stir and top with champagne. For a spooky element, add a gummy eyeball. 😊 Enjoy!
#10 Blood Shots.
- 2 oz whiskey
- 2 oz hard apple cider
- A few dashes orange bitters
- 4 marshmallows
- Red food coloring
The perfect Halloween bourbon drink for your next party. Served in shot glasses, ready to spook and be enjoyed. View the full recipe here.
#11 Nightmare on Bourbon Street.
- 1 ½ oz bourbon
- 1 oz fresh lemon juice
- ¼ cup fresh apple cider
- 1-2 tsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp fresh ginger
- 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
- 5 oz sparkling apple cider
- Cinnamon sugar
- Cinnamon sticks
Another delicious shake, strain, and top off drink. Bourbon, apple, and cinnamon… what’s not to love? Check out the full recipe here.
#12 The Spooky Sour.
- 3 oz bourbon whiskey
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp fresh orange juice
- Ginger beer for topping
- 1 sprig rosemary
This delicious twist on a classic drink is made by combining all ingredients in an iced glass, and topping with ginger beer. Check out the full recipe.
#13 Bourbon Butterbeer.
- 2 oz bourbon
- 4 oz cream soda
- 1 oz butterscotch schnapps
- 1 oz heavy cream
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- Pink of salt
- Whipped cream
- Butterscotch syrup
A warm, whimsical drink for any Fall evening. Perfect for a Halloween celebration. See the full recipe here.
I hope you enjoyed these Halloween drinks with bourbon recipes. You can turn many classic cocktail into a festive drink just by adding your own spooky twist.
If you want to use other spirits for your themed party, check out these easy Yellow Drinks for a fun Halloween cocktail pick. You can also turn this refreshing Strawberry Long Island Iced Tea into a spooky drink in no time.
Happy Halloween from The Happy Wookiee!
