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American Horror Story-Themed Halloween Cocktail Recipes for Your Weekend Bash

October 26, 2016 by Brandon Gentry No Comments
American Horror Story-Themed Halloween Cocktail Recipes

Does a 40oz. Of Horror-approved Halloween party involve knocking back a buttload of booze? Does Bigfoot shit in the woods? Well, we’re not sure about that, but the first one’s a no-brainer. What better time to mix up weird or even dangerous-looking drinks than Halloween? The following American Horror Story-themed Halloween cocktail recipes are creepy, creative and perfectly customized for your All Hallow’s Eve soiree.

American Horror Story-themed Halloween Cocktails: Hypodermic SallyHypodermic Sally

AHS: HOTEL – Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 4 oz. Vodka
  • 2 oz. Licor 43
  • 6 oz. Soda Water
  • 2 oz. Orange Juice
  • 3 oz. Raspberry Syrup

Directions: 

  1. Pour the vodka and Licor 43 into a shaker over ice and shake it like crazy.
  2. Mix in the orange juice and soda water, then strain the mixture into chilled glasses.
  3. Serve with raspberry syrup in a plastic syringe.

American Horror Story-themed Halloween Cocktails: Witches' CovenWitches’ Coven

AHS: COVEN – Serves 6 – 8

Ingredients:

  • 10 oz. Brandy
  • 32 oz. Blackcurrant Juice
  • 12 oz. Soda Water
  • 3 tbsp Sugar

Directions:

  1. Mix brandy and sugar in a large bowl, then stir in blackcurrant juice.
  2. Refrigerate for around an hour, then add soda water just before serving.
  3. Serve in a martini glass or better yet a coupe — martini glasses spill too easy once you’ve had a couple of these, ya dig?

Check out 6 more 40oz. Of Horror Halloween Cocktail Recipes

American Horror Story-themed Halloween Cocktails: Freak Show LemonadeFreak Show Lemonade

AHS: FREAK SHOW – Serves 6 – 8

Ingredients:

  • 25 oz. Water
  • 5 tbsp Sugar
  • 8 oz. Lemon Juice
  • 2 – 3 Ripe Peaches
  • 6 oz. Bourbon
  • Fresh Mint

Directions:

  1. In a large pitcher, sugar in the water
  2. Pit and slice the peaches. Add the peach slices and lemon juice to the sugar water mixture.
  3. Where’s the booze?
  4. Bourbon! Here it is! My favorite. Dump it in.
  5. Give it a stir and serve

American Horror Story-themed Halloween Cocktails: Communion WineCommunion Wine

AHS: ASYLUM – Serves 6 – 8

Ingredients:

  • 2 tsp Black Peppercorns
  • 1 tsp Fennel Seeds
  • 1 Cinnamon Stick
  • 2 Bottles of Red Wine (Zinfandel or Merlot)
  • 3 Bay Leaves
  • 1 Orange
  • 1 cup Muscovado Sugar

Directions:

  1. Pour the wine into a large pot.
  2. Wrap the peppercorns, fennel seeds and cinnamon stick in gauze and add to the wine.
  3. Add the bay leaves and orange zest strips.
  4. Over a low heat, bring the wine mixture to a simmer.
  5. Remove from the heat and leave to stand for 30 minutes.
  6. Remove the aromatics and stir in sugar until dissolved.
  7. Serve warm in your most chalice like goblets. Play on, player.

American Horror Story-themed Halloween Cocktails: Smoking GunSmoking Gun

AHS: MURDER HOUSE – Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz. Bourbon
  • 4 oz. Red Vermouth
  • 8 drops Bitters (Angostura)
  • 1.5 oz. Scotch (the smokier, the better)

Directions:

  1. Add the bourbon, vermouth and bitters to a cocktail shaker with 1 cup of ice and stir.
  2. Strain the cocktail into an chilled glass.
  3. Carefully spoon the Scotch whisky on top so it floats.
  4. If you fancy a cigar, fire one up while you sip this beverage.

What cocktails are you going to serve at your Halloween Party?

For more Halloween party ideas, check out Festive-Lights.com.

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6 Halloween Cocktail Recipes That Will Haunt Your Sobriety

October 6, 2016 by Brandon Gentry 2 Comments
40oz. Of Horror Halloween Cocktail Recipes

Get ready because it’s time for some good ol’ fashioned Halloween holiday boozin’

Check out these 6 spooktacular Halloween Cocktail Recipes this Halloween. There are a handful of party favorites here, and TWO 40oz. Of Horror originals!

Oh, and these drinks are LOADED, so don’t come crying to me if you have a night of #BoozinGoneBad…

6. The Black Devil Martini

A photo posted by 💗 (@lov3lyyric3y) on Oct 6, 2015 at 10:50am PDT

Ingredients:
2 oz. Dark Rum
1/2 oz. Dry Vermouth
2 Black Olives
Orange Sugar (optional for the rim)

Directions:
Pro Tip: Here’s how to chill a martini glass in a pinch. Before you start mixing the drink, fill your martini glasses to the brim with ice water and set them aside.

Ok, we’re ready for the ‘tini. Pour the rum and vermouth into a shaker over a handful of ice. Now shake the shaker until it becomes very cold. Dump the ice water out of the martini glasses. Are they frosted? Good. Now strain the bloody concoction into the now chilled martini glass, and garnish with the black olive.

5. Zombie Gut Punch Cocktail

A photo posted by Kyle GS (@kgrahams) on Apr 9, 2016 at 6:40pm PDT

Ingredients:
10 ounces Crystal Head vodka
5 ounces Triple Sec
2 ounces Bitters
1 cup Fresh Squeezed Blood Orange Juice
2 cups Black Cherry Soda
Grenadine for the Rim

Directions:
Frist of all, if you’re not using Crystal Head vodka, Dan Aykroyd won’t be happy. In a large punch bowl filled with ice, pour vodka, triple sec, bitters, blood orange juice and black cherry soda.

Chomp your teeth and stir the concoction like you’re hungry for human brains. Rim each glass with grenadine before filling with the punch mixture, and serve. Drink and hope for the best. Boozy!

4. Bloody Brain Shooter

A photo posted by Barclays Pub (@barclays_pub) on Oct 30, 2014 at 1:29am PDT


Ingredients:
1 1/4 oz. Strawberry Vodka
1/8 oz. Rose’s Lime Juice
3/4 oz. Bailey’s Irish Cream
Splash of Grenadine

Directions:
This one requires some finesse, so listen up, Timothy! Chill the vodka for better smoothness. Add vodka and lime juice to a shaker, shake and strain into a shot glass. Using a straw, dip some Bailey’s Irish Cream into the shot. Once you submerge the straw into the Bailey’s put your finger on top of the straw to hold the Bailey’s in the straw. Dip the straw tip into the vodka and slowly release your top finger. This is some real Martha Stewart, crafty business here, Bub. The Bailey’s will curdle a little bit due to the lime juice and you should be able to make strands of the cream. Repeat the straw/Bailey’s process to build a “brain” in the shot glass. Add a splash of grenadine to the concoction to add the ‘blood’ to the mix.

Now shoot it down your throat like a bloody-brain-bullet.

3. I Zombie

A photo posted by Little Buddy (@littlebuddyhideaway) on Oct 1, 2016 at 3:18pm PDT


Ingredients:
1/2 ounce White Rum
1 1/2 ounces Golden Rum
1 ounce Dark Rum
1/2 ounce 151-Proof Rum
1 ounce Lime Juice
1 teaspoon Pineapple Juice
1 teaspoon Papaya Juice
1 teaspoon Superfine Sugar

Directions:
All the rums, son! Stir together all these ingredients except the 151 and pour into a 14-ounce glass three-fourths full of cracked ice. Float the 151 as a lid (by pouring it into a spoon and gently dipping it under the surface of the drink). Then, if the spirit moves you, take a match to this mixture; it will burn. Be careful here, Philip, don’t go getting yourself a million views on YouTube because flaming alcohol is only funny when it happens to other people.

Garnish with mint (either straight or dipped in lime juice and then superfine sugar) and/or fruit. (A particularly fetching touch: On a toothpick, impale a lemon slice or pineapple cube between two maraschino cherries and lay this fruit kabob atop of the drink).

A couple of these and you will be knocked on your ass like you got in a fight with Rick Grimes.

2. Bloody Brain Hemorrhage

A photo posted by Vlad Ras T (@vlad_ras_t) on Oct 1, 2016 at 7:01am PDT


Ingredients:
1/2 – 3/4 oz. Peach Schnapps
1-2 Tbl. of Baileys
1 tsp Grenadine

Directions:
Pour the Peach Schnapps into a good sized shot glass. Float the Baileys on top of the Schnapps. Pour the grenadine through the Baileys and watch it drip down. If it looks disgusting as fuck, you made this drink to perfection. Drink and let your brain explode.

1. 40oz. Of Horror’s Very Own Jason Takes Manhattan

A photo posted by Brandon (@brandontaylorgentry) on May 3, 2014 at 3:55pm PDT


Ingredients:
2 oz Old Grand-dad 114
1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth
2-3 dashes Angostura Bitters
2 Bacardi 151 Cherries

Directions:
This is a 40oz. of Horror original, so watch out! And if anyone ever tells you a Manhattan is a cocktail for grannies’s, tell them, “Piss off!” They probably can’t handle bourbon anyway. Also, tell ’em your granny is Pamela Voorhees.

2 – 5 days before you plan on serving this wondrous cocktail, put cherries in a jar and fill up the jar with Bacardi 151. Seal it up and put it in your refrigerator.

When it’s time to get fucking weird, pour the Old Grand-dad 114, sweet vermouth, and bitters into a shaker over a handful of ice.

“Damn,” you say as the 114 proof Old Grand-dad fills your nostrils, “we’re in for a fun night!”

Now shake that shit. Shake it until the shaker is so cold it hurts your hands! Strain the booze into a chilled cocktail glass and plop in a couple of the aforementioned 151 cherries.

Tell your friends, “Goodnight!” and drink it like a boss.

BONUS #1 – A 40oz. Of Horror Hangover Cure – The Bloody Motherfucking Mary

It should be noted that Bub and I actually made the three Bloody Marys shown here. Click on the Instagram link and see for yourself. We went to the store and bought all this shit specifically to make the most epic Bloody Marys known to man.

A photo posted by Brandon (@brandontaylorgentry) on Apr 1, 2012 at 12:54pm PDT


Ingredients:
1.5 ounces of Bacon & Cucumber Infused Vodka
Hoosier Momma Bloody Mary Mix (I like the Spicy Hot version)
1 Strip of Cooked Bacon
1 Peperoncini
3 Cocktail Onions
2 Garlic Stuffed Olives
1 Baby Corn
1 Smoked Oysters
1 Whole Pickle
1 Cocktail Shrimp
3 – 4 Monterey Jack Cheese Cubes
1 Jalopeno
3 – 4 Pepperonis
1 Red Onion (roughly chopped)
1 Olive-Wrapped
1 Anchovie
1 Spring Onion
1 Lime Wedge
1 Celery Stalk

Directions: 
If you currently have a hangover, I appologize for making you read through, and shop for, all those ingredients, but stick with me. You’ll be cured in no time!

Fill a pint glass about 3/4 of the way full with ice cubes. Pour in the vodka and enough of the Bloody Mary mix to get you close to the top. Don’t forget that we’re about to unleash the most ingredients you’ve ever used in your entire life, so leave some room for water displacement (I learned that shit from Mr. Wizard). Mix the the bloody by pouring the mixture, ice and all, into an empty pint glass and then back again. Ok, you’re good to begin garnishing.

Go ahead and put the big celery stalk and spring onions in first. Look at that green pop! Classic blood right there. Time to get real weird. Using wooden skewers, begin stabbing the shit out of all the smaller veggies, cheese and meats. Think about them like mini kabobs. Think about the flavors you like together. Add the skewers to the drink. Now you should have a number of kabob “fingers” sticking out of the glass. Use them to hold your lager ingredients in place. Give everything a quick squirt of lime and add the lime wedge to the pile. Dangle the bacon out of the glass. Find a good spot for that smoked oyster. Don’t forget about that big pickle. Hang cocktail shrimp from the rim of the glass and so on and so on. You will DEFINITELY need a straw for this drink.

Sip and relax. Not only will this epic Bloody Mary recipe get you feeling human again after a night of #BoozinGoneBad, but your appetite should start coming back and it really turns into a meal. The salty, spicy, greasy goodness of all the ingredients will have you back to your old self in no time!

BONUS #2 – And if you’re feeling especially froggy…

Check out this recipe from the Tipsy Bartender. It is based on The Walking Dead and it’s guaranteed to make you a walking corpse.

What is your favorite cocktail recipe? Have you tried any of these. Let us know if the comments section below. 

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[VIDEO] How to Make a Hot Toddy (40oz. Of Horror’s Hot Toddy Recipe)

March 1, 2014 by Brandon Gentry No Comments
How to Make a Hot Toddy (40oz. Of Horror's Hot Toddy Recipe)

Hey guys, I just thought I’d post a video showing how to make our Hot Toddy recipe. For those of you who don’t know what this drink is, you’re in for a treat!

I’ve been under the weather lately with cold and flu season well under way, and this is perfect alcoholic beverage to sip when you’re feeling shitty.

Ingredients

  • Strong Bourbon (I like Old Grand-Dad 114)
  • Black Tea
  • Honey
  • Lemon
  • Cinnamon

Instructions

Do you have any great cocktail recipes? Let us know in the comment section below.

Remember to drink responsibly and stay healthy!

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40oz. Of Horror Original Christmas Cocktail Recipes Will Get You Where You Need To Be

December 20, 2012 by Brandon Gentry No Comments

We all know that the holidays can be stressful, so here are a few of our original Christmas cocktail recipes that are sure to take the edge off. Leave all your notions that sweet, chocolatey holiday cocktails are too girly in your panty drawer, Susan, because this is how you do it right.

Hot Toddy Recipe40oz. of Horror Hot Toddy

Ingredients:
2 oz. Wild Turkey Special Reserve
1 or 2 tea bags (black tea)
1 Tbsp honey
1 slice of lemon
1 cup of hot water
1 cinnamon stick

Directions:
Make like your grandma and boil some water in a tea kettle. When the whistle’s a blowin’ the water’s ready for flowin’ — so pour the hot water into a good sized coffee mug. That’s right, we’re drinking this booze-ooze out of a mug like a 1950s high school principal. Now take your tea bags and tea-bag that water until it’s good and brown. Be careful with this step because this tea is as hot as a freshly-baked Totino’s Pizza Roll. Dump in the Wild Turkey Special Reserve and the rest of your ingredients. Give it a slow stir with a cinnamon stick and garnish the rim with a slice of lemon. Sip slowly on a cold winter’s night and this drink will cure what ails ya!

If you’re feeling especially festive, finish this tea with clove *cigarette.
*Surgeon Brandon’s Warning: Smoking causes cancer and drinking gets you drunk.

Spiked Eggnog Moose MugDrunken Elf Eggnog

Ingredients:
2 oz. Courvoisier Cognac
5 oz. eggnog
Ground cinnamon
Ground nutmeg

Directions:
Typical holiday spiked eggnog calls for any run-of-the-mill brandy, but up in here, we’re taking a page out of The Ladies’ Man playbook and using Courvoisier Cognac! Other than using some fine cognac, toss any notion of classy out the fucking window and fill up a Moose Mug with eggnog. Slurp the top of the eggnog down to make room for the ‘gnac. Open the bottle of Courvoisier and take a good whiff — savor that shit (because it smells awesome) — then pour it into the eggnog. Give the Moose Mug a little swirl, then add a couple dashes of cinnamon and nutmeg. Drink it down, Cousin Eddie, because it’s Christmas!

Peppermint Schnapps Hot ChocolateHit the Floor Hot Chocolate

Ingredients:
1 can of alcohol-infused whipped cream
32 oz. instant hot chocolate
6 oz. peppermint schnapps
Bacardi 151 cherries
Chocolate sprinkles

Directions:
2 – 5 days before you plan on serving this cocktail, put cherries in a jar and fill up the jar with Bacardi 151. Seal up the jar and put it in your refrigerator. Make your instant hot chocolate according to the directions on the package. Give a little to your kids and tell them to go to bed or else Santa’s going to skip your house. Now take the rest and add your favorite brand of peppermint schnapps. Give it a stir and top it off with a healthy squirt of loaded whipped cream. For a real kick in the pants, top the cream with a Bacardi 151 cherry. If you’re feeling like Martha Stewart, grate some chocolate dust or add some chocolate sprinkles on top. If you’re enjoying this drink at a frat party, dare all your bros to take shots of the remaining Bacardi 151 cherry juice.

(serves about 4 people… or yourself depending on how bad/good your night is.)

Always remember to drink responsibly and have a happy holiday!

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6 Halloween Cocktails That Will Haunt Your Sobriety

October 19, 2012 by 40oz. Of Horror No Comments

We’ve scoured the earth in search of the best of the best when it comes to Halloween boozin’. Here’s our top 6 spooktacular Halloween cocktails with an original 40oz. Of Horror Halloween cocktail recipe included. Let us know what you think. We can’t be held accountable if you have a night of #BoozinGoneBad…

 

Black Devil Martini Halloween Cocktail Recipe6. Black Devil Martini

Ingredients:
2 oz. Dark Rum
1/2 oz. Dry Vermouth
2 Black Olives
Orange Sugar (optional)

Directions:
Chill a martini glass by filling it with ice water and setting it aside. Now pour the dark rum and dry vermouth into a shaker over a handful of crushed ice. Put the lid on the shaker and shake the shit out of it. Shake it until the shaker becomes very cold. Dump the ice water out of the martini glass? Is it frosty? Cool. Rim the glass with orange sugar. Now strain the mixture into the martini glass and garnish with the black olives.

Zombie Gut Punch Cocktail5. Zombie Gut Punch Cocktail

Ingredients:
10 ounces Crystal Head vodka
5 ounces triple sec
2 ounces bitters
1 cup fresh squeezed blood orange juice
2 cups black cherry soda
Grenadine, for rim

Directions:
Frist of all, if you’re not using Crystal Head vodka, Dan Aykroyd won’t be happy. In a large punch bowl filled with ice, pour vodka, triple sec, bitters, blood orange juice and black cherry soda. Chomp your teeth and stir the concoction like you’re hungry for human brains. Rim each glass with grenadine before filling with punch mixture, and serve. Drink and hope for the best.

Bloody Brain Shot4. Bloody Brain Shooter

Ingredients:
1 1/4 oz. strawberry vodka
1/8 oz. Rose’s lime juice
3/4 oz. Bailey’s Irish Cream
Splash of grenadine

Directions:
Chill vodka for better smoothness. Add vodka and lime juice to a shaker, shake and strain into a shot glass. Using a straw, dip some Bailey’s Irish Cream into the shot. Once you submerge the straw into the Bailey’s put your finger on top of the straw to hold the Bailey’s in the straw. Dip the straw tip into the vodka and slowly release your top finger. The Bailey’s will curdle a little bit due to the lime juice and you should be able to make strands of Bailey’s. Repeat the straw/Bailey’s process to build a “brain” in the shot glass. Add a splash of grenadine to the concoction to add the ‘blood’ to the mix. Shoot it down your throat like a bloody-brain-bullet.

Zombie Cocktail3. Zombie

Ingredients:
1/2 ounce white rum
1 1/2 ounces golden rum
1 ounce dark rum
1/2 ounce 151-proof rum
1 ounce lime juice
1 teaspoon pineapple juice
1 teaspoon papaya juice
1 teaspoon superfine sugar

Directions:
Stir together all these ingredients except the 151 and pour into a 14-ounce glass three-fourths full of cracked ice. Float the 151 as a lid (by pouring it into a spoon and gently dipping it under the surface of the drink). Then, if the spirit moves you, take a match to this mixture; it will burn. Garnish with mint (either straight or dipped in lime juice and then superfine sugar) and/or fruit. (A particularly fetching touch: On a toothpick, impale a lemon slice or pineapple cube between two maraschino cherries and lay this fruit kabob atop of the drink). A couple of these and you will be knocked on your ass like you got in a fight with Rick Grimes.

Brain Hemorrhage Shot2. Brain Hemorrhage

Ingredients:
1/2 – 3/4 oz. Peach Schnapps
1-2 Tbl. of Baileys
1 tsp grenadine

Directions:
Pour the Peach Schnapps into a good sized shot glass. Float the Baileys on top of the Schnapps. Dropp the grenadine through the Baileys. If it looks disgusting as fuck, you made this drink to perfection. Drink and let your brain explode.

40oz Of Horror's Mad Man-hattan1. 40oz. Of Horror’s Jason Takes Manhattan

Ingredients:
2 oz Old Grand-dad 114
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
2-3 dashes Angostura bitters
2 Bacardi 151 cherries

Directions:
This is a 40oz. of Horror original, so watch out! And if anyone ever tells you a Manhattan is a chick’s drink, tell them, “Piss off!” They probably can’t handle whiskey anyway.

2 – 5 days before you plan on serving this cocktail, put cherries in a jar and fill up the jar with Bacardi 151. Seal up the jar and put it in your refrigerator. Pour the Old Grand-dad 114, sweet vermouth, and bitters into a shaker over a handful of ice. Now shake that shit. Shake it super cold! Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and plop in a couple of the aforementioned 151 cherries. Tell your friends, “Goodnight!” and drink it down.

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