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Beefeater Cocktails

The Ravenmaster Royale Punch | Created by Nick Van Tiel 
32 oz homemade lemon & honey shrubb*
33 oz (1 liter) Beefeater Dry gin
10 oz Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur
10 dashes Reagan’s orange bitters
16 oz unfiltered/cloudy apple juice
16 oz chilled water
1 bottle of Perrier Jouet Champagne (750ml)

*Shrubb recipe:
12 regular, unwaxed lemons
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup (8 oz) Honey
10 oz water

Make an oleo-saccharin from the peels of the 12 lemons (no pith), and the sugar. Leave for 30 minutes to extract oils. Mix the 8 oz of honey with 10 oz water and add oleo saccharin, mix well until sugar etc is dissolved. Juice the 12 lemons (approx 14 oz of juice) and add this also Fine strain the peels, pulp and sugar out, which should leave 1 quart of shrubb. Serve in a 4 quart punch bowl. Chill with a large 2 pound ice block Garnish with lemon wheels with cloves stuck into them, and a light grating of nutmeg.

Bee Sting | Created by John Gertsen of Boston’s Drink 
2 parts Beefeater 24 Gin
½ part Lemon Juice
½ part Honey Syrup (1:1 with water)
~12 Peppercorns

Muddle peppercorns in shaker. Add rest of ingredients and ice, shake, and strain into a cocktail glass.

Queen Bee’s Knees
6 parts Beefeater Gin
3 parts lemon juice
1 part honey syrup
Champagne/Sparkling Wine

Shake and strain over cubed ice into Wine glass. 

Green Snapper
4 parts Beefeater Gin
8 parts pineapple juice
1 part honey syrup
1 part lime juice
6 mint leaves
3 dashes green Tobasco
Small handful coriander
Pinch sea salt

Blend all ingredients except gin and strain through a sieve into small jug. Add ice cubes and gin, and then transfer everything into a Highball glass. Decorate with cucumber sticks.

Thirsty for some Halloween-y brews?  Try these!

Horny Devils (top) – from Phyllis Hoffman Celebrate

1 (64-oz) bottle tomato-vegetable juice cocktail
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
2 Tbsp hot sauce
2 tsp celery salt
3 cups black vodka, divided
garnish: serrano chili peppers

In a 2-quart pitcher, combine tomato vegetable juice cocktail, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and celery salt. Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice. Add 3/4 cup tomato juice mixture. Shake vigorously for 5 to 10 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass. Pour 1/4 cup black vodka over the back of a spoon so that vodka runs down side of glass and floats on top of tomato juice mixture. Repeat procedure for each serving. Garnish rim of glass with chili peppers. (Serves 12)

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Candy Corn Cordials (bottom left) – from The Food Network

1/2 cup candy corn 
1 1/2 cups vodka
2 oz orange liqueur Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 large egg white

Combine the candy corn and vodka in an airtight container; set aside for at least 3 hours, then strain.

Add 4 ounces of the candy corn vodka, the orange liqueur, lemon juice and egg white to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously for at least 30 seconds. Strain into 2 chilled martini glasses and garnish with candy corn.

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Hallow-Rita (bottom center) – from LimeTreeCove.com

4 oz Newman’s Own Limeade
2 oz Orange Juice
2 oz Tequila
Splash Triple Sec
Fresh squeezed lime and lime slices
Ice
Natural Orange Colored Sugar from the Mischief Maker Package
Lime Tree Cove Hawaiian Black Lava Salt

In a cocktail shaker, squeeze limes over ice, add limeade, and orange juice.  Add triple sec, tequila, and orange sugar.  Shake.  Wet rim with a lime slice and then dip into Lava Salt.

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Trick or Treatfrom Whipped Lightning

1 oz pumpkin liqueur
3/4 oz vanilla vodka
3/4 oz coconut rum
6 oz half and half
Pumkpin Pie Whipped Lightning

Shake all ingredients together with ice.  Pour over ice and top with whipahol.
 

The Classic Champagne Cocktail – Incredibly easy to make and it’s just delicious.

You’ll Need:
Dry champagne or sparkling wine – rose or white
Bitters
Sugar Cubes
Lemon twists (don’t know how to make them and don’t have a zester? I didn’t either, but I watched this)

In a cup or small bowl, soak the sugar cubes in bitters – about 6-8 drops of bitters per sugar cube.  Drop a sugar cube in your champagne flute after pouring (two if you’d like it to be sweeter).  Place one lemon twist in the glass.

The picture of the cocktail was borrowed from hindsightbride.com as mine were in ugly plastic-ware.