Halloween Drinks for 2025

Halloween is creeping up, and it’s on a Friday this year so people are ready to be extra festive. Make sure you’re ready with some scary good holiday drinks. Here are seven we like for this year.

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Spider’s Web

Course Drinks

Keyword Chambord, lime, pineapple, Simple syrup, vodka

Ingredients

• 1 ⅓ oz. Vodka
• ⅓ oz. Simple syrup
• ½ oz. Fresh lime juice
• ¾ oz. Chambord
• 1 ¾ oz. Pineapple juice
• Green food coloring
• Marshmallows edible jelly (for garnish)

Instructions

• In a cocktail shaker, combine vodka, simple syrup, fresh lime juice, Chambord, and pineapple juice.
• Add ice to the shaker and shake well until chilled.
• Add food coloring, a few drops can enhance the appearance.
• Strain the mixture into a chilled Martini glass.
• Melt marshmallows to create a web around the rim of the glass.
• Garnish with edible jellies on a skewer.

Notes

Dawid Smietana, food & beverage manager at Kilkea Castle hotel resort and golf club in County Kildare, Ireland, created this recipe.

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Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun

Course Drinks

Keyword blackberries, Blood orange juice, seltzer, Simple syrup, vodka

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Prairie Organic vodka
• ½ cup Organic blackberries
• 1 oz. Blood orange simple syrup
• Seltzer water to top

Instructions

• In bottom of glass, muddle half of blackberries together with the simple syrup.
• Add ice, vodka and top off with seltzer water to taste.
• Garnish with remaining blackberries.

Notes

The mixologists at Prairie Organic Spirits created this recipe.

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The Conjuror

Course Drinks

Keyword agave, black food coloring, bourbon, Cherry syrup, lemon, Maraschino liqueur

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Bourbon
• ½ oz. Agave syrup
• ½ oz. Maraschino liqueur
• 1 oz. Lemon juice
• 1 tsp. Cherry syrup
• Black powdered coloring

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients and shake.
• Pour over dry ice for a smoky look.
• Garnish with a black cherry or rosemary sprig.

Notes

The mixologists at Zocca Cuisine D’Italia at The Westin Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX, created this recipe.

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The Blood Moon

Course Drinks

Keyword bourbon, cabernet sauvignon, orange bitters, pomegranate juice, vermouth

Ingredients

• ¾ oz. Basil Hayden Bourbon
• 1 oz. Château Élan cabernet sauvignon
• ½ oz. Vermouth
• 2 dashes Orange bitters
• ½ oz. Pomegranate juice
• Blood rim honey + red food coloring and skewered blackberries for garnish

Instructions

• Prepare the blood rim by mixing honey with red food coloring and applying it to the edge of a chilled glass.
• Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and stir gently until well chilled.
• Strain into the prepared glass.
• Garnish with skewered blackberries.

Notes

The mixologists at Château Élan in Braselton, GA, created this recipe.

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Ghouls Night Out Highball

Course Drinks

Keyword Angostura bitters, ginger beer, Japanese whisky, spiced pear liqueur

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Hibiki Japanese whiskey
• ½ oz. Spiced pear liqueur
• Top with ginger beer
• Dash of Angostura bitters

Instructions

• Pour whiskey and pear liqueur into a tall glass with filled with ice.
• Add a dash of Angostura bitters and top with ginger beer.
• Garnish with a ghost marshmallow.

Notes

The mixologists at Le Méridien Washington, D.C., The Madison hotel created this recipe.

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Jack’s Elixir

Course Drinks

Keyword agave, Aperol, blanco tequila, grapefruit, lime, pineapple

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Casa Dragones blanco tequila
• 1 oz. Aperol
• 1 oz. Fresh grapefruit
• 1 oz. Fresh pineapple
• ½ oz. Fresh lime
• ¼ oz. Agave

Instructions

• Rim glass with black sugar and add ice.
• Add ingredients to mixing glass and shake.
• Pour over fresh ice.
• Add a spooky garnish of choice.

Notes

The mixologists at Bungalows Key Largo in Key Largo, FL, created this recipe.

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Bad Witch

Course Drinks

Keyword agave, cream of coconut, matcha, soda, spiced rum

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Kraken Gold spiced rum
• ½ oz. Agave nectar
• 1 tbsp. Cream of coconut
• 1 tsp. Matcha powder
• 2 oz. Soda water

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients in a glass.
• Top with soda water and serve over ice.

Notes

The mixologists at Kraken created this recipe.