Guides 10 years ago

The Tab’s guide to Halloween drinks MDF style

These drinks will help you kill the Halloween pregame scene

For those who are still a little freaked out about bringing hard alcohol into their rooms, the pregame drink selection can be a little lacklustre.

There comes a point where you’re tired of draining your wallet on craft beers and ciders that are mediocre at best. Like, who can forget a good old bottle of Andre? Sigh. But on special occasions, why not dream bigger? Why not hold a pregame where people actually enjoy what you’re serving?

So if you’re that person who wants to kill it this Halloween, we decided to try to create a few options that will keep you MDF compliant and ready to lose it at BG’s shark(oween).

If you live off campus and can come up with better concoctions, great. But, for the rest of campus, we’re here for you. Don’t be fooled by the lame names (especially the ones we came up with on our own), they’re actually not bad.

We’ll start with our own recipes that were inspired by real ones. Once you suffer through our creations, we found some other ‘legit’ ones online to share with you.

Tab creation #1: ‘Trick or Treat?’

Ingredients

½ can of hard cider
equal part red wine (we used Merlot)
a glug of Sprite (or more if you’re feeling frisky)

Opinions

“Surprisingly tolerable spritzer.”
“It was actually pretty delightful.”
“A nice change of pace.”

Tab creation #2: ‘Sin-ful cinnamon’

Inspired by this recipe

Ingredients

a bit of cinnamon
a packet of Truvia (or real sugar if you’re not a girl)
equal parts cranberry juice and wine (we also used Merlot here)

Opinions

“It tastes kind of like Christmas in a cup….so might be for the wrong holiday….”
“Could also taste like the leaves crunching under your feet while trick-or-treating/frat hopping.”

Tab creation #3: ‘A Witch’s Brew’

Directions

Line the inside of your glass with honey
Coat this with some cinnamon
Fill glass with equal parts wine and cider
STIR

Opinions

“That smells like Santa’s asshole”
“We just made cheap wine worse”

Tab creation #4: ‘The Hocus Pocus Sangria’

Ingredients

A splash of cranberry juice
A half serving to a serving a wine (whatever you think is right)
A quarter bottle of sprite
A spritz of lemon juice

Opinions

“Good job, what the fuck?”
“That actually tastes like sangria”
“That’s really good! I’m shocked!”

If you have more time on your hands this weekend, we found these delicious looking sangrias and other Halloween drinks you might want to try for your Halloween festivities.