There’s no drink post this week, because I made one last week, even though I said I wouldn’t.

I just love getting you guys drunk and easy I guess.

Anyway, whilst I’m too lazy to come up with a drink this week, I still have a good recommendation for drinking, because it’s the weekend, it’s Halloween, and regardless of what costume you put on on Sunday night, by the time you wake up with a mouth tasting of soil and carpet, you should be TPd enough to look like a mummy.

Which is why I recommend Duck & Bull cider, from Henry of Harcourt!

This is no ordinary cider. For a start, it’s a draught cider, which actually means it’s something of a savoury taste. Those of you looking for something like a Strongbow are going to be sorely disappointed… In fact, I’ve even had one person tell me it tastes like vinegar. I guess your taste buds would inform you of that if you drank nothing but Cocacola 24/7 as well though.

Anyway, the taste: It’s crisp & light, refreshingly so if kept in a glass with ice, and bordering on a sweeter flavoured ale with a hint of apple.

Where it really shines through though is the liquor content. 3.5 standard drinks per serve. Have one of these after forgetting to eat for the entire day (probably using the money you were meant to spend on lunch) and you’re going to be having a good time in 20 minutes or so. Have a second and it’s a great night out in under an hour.

A third one may be pushing it… Finishing the four pack on an empty stomach is asking to wake up with a mouth that looks like an ancient mummy’s as well as the taste of soil and carpet.

The only problem with this, other than making some very bad ideas seem great, is that it’s a pain in the arse to find. I’d recommend getting it from Slowbeer.com.au in bulk and sucking up the shipping like a man… a man that’s ok with admitting he drinks cider.

This particular drink turned out to be a lot more difficult to make htan I thoughtit would be and unfortunately, if you’re wanting to make this for this year, it’s way too late for you.

You see, I made a fatal error.

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Traditionally speaking, Halloween was a time when spirits would come back to visit families, before they were dragged back to wherever they were from on All Saints Day. The costumes worn are, presumably, so that the vindictive bastards from Hell would assume you were a pack of demons and leave you alone, to find some other poor bastard to unleash their hellish wrath upon… At least, in the Christian supplanted version at any rate.

It was also the end of the good weather, and people would spend the time curing fruits and meats for the coming winter… but while they still had an excess of food before the harsh and bitter winter, they’d piss away as much as possible, not thinking about the consequences. Hence the treats in trick-or-treating. You’d give the neighbours nice things in return for them not calling you a witch that year. But what better way to waste good food than with games?

Games such as bobbing for apples were very popular.

And it’s with that in mind that I bring you this week’s drink.

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Another day in October, another Halloween Cocktail recipe. Yes, they just keep coming, and if only they all had an 80% spoof content… *sigh*

This week’s is a bit of a rush job for two reasons.

1) I left it until Friday morning to think up; and

2) I was trying to figure out a way to get rid of the remaining liter of white grapefruit juice from last week’s cocktail, because I’m not much of a white grapefruit fan. (more…)

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