4 Frighteningly Good Halloween Cocktails

Warm, spicy and deep, dark orange, the Old Fashioned cocktail is autumn in a tumbler. Place a brown sugar cube in the glass with a splash of water or club soda and a dash of orange bitters. Crush the sugar, then squeeze in the oil from a twist of orange peel. Tip ice cubes into the glass with a large measure (50 mL) of Glenmorangie The Original, stir and garnish with maraschino cherries to taste.

If you want to go even darker and smokier, a Perfect Manhattan cocktail is your go-to Halloween tipple. Fill a shaker with ice and mix 50 mL of the famously peat-smoky Ardbeg Uigeadail whisky with 25 mL each of red and white vermouth and three drops of orange bitters. Stir well, then strain and top off with a cocktail cherry or lemon-peel twist.

Add 50 mL of Glenmorangie The Original whisky and 3 drops of Angostura bitters into an old fashioned/rocks glass over ice, and stir. Top with 75 mL of ginger ale. Flame an orange peel to express the oils with ½ flat barspoon of molasses sugar, and add as a garnish.

For a slightly more elegant cocktail, with a gentle nod to the Halloween theme thanks to its subtle red colour, try the Life In Venice. It features Moët Ice Impérial poured into a large wine glass over ice, with a dash of Italian bitter digestif and another of grapefruit bitters.