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Five Spirits and Cocktails for Adult Halloween Parties

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With Halloween falling on a Sunday this year, the night before, sometimes referred to as "Mischief Night", will be ideal for adult parties while the kids prepare to go trick-or-treating, or to parties on Sunday afternoon.

In keeping with the "spirit" of the occasion, here are several good ways to stock a bar for the grown-ups, and prepare for some themed drinks.

Here are recommendations and recipes:

Absinthe:
Reintroduced in the last couple of years to liquor stores, it is a anise flavored distilled spirit, emerald green in color that turns to cloudy opalescent white when mixed with a bit of water, which is traditionally poured over a sugar cube. Known in the 19th century as "The Green Fairy" for its power to bring on hallucinations. It was known to be a favorite of such "dark" artists and writers as Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe and Ernest Hemingway. Lucid is one brand, priced at about $50.00, and packaged in a cool black bottle featuring the eyes of a black cat.

Crystal Head Vodka:
Apprpriately bottled in a crystal skull, you could buy a few to make a real statement at your bar. Price: about $42.00. Here are two recipes to make use of Crystal Head:

Brain Freeze
1 1/2 oz. Crystal Head Vodka, 1 1/2 to 2 oz. Pure lime juice, 1oz. Simple syrup.
Combine all the ingredients with ice in a blender. Blend until ice is well crushed. Serve in a sugar rimed rocks glass garnished with a slice of lime.

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Chambord Launches Premium Pink Vodka

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The flavored vodka category is getting mighty crowded with new brands and a myriad of flavor extensions from familiar brands like Smirnoff, Absolut and Ketel One. Into the fray this month enters Chambord vodka, the first line extension ever from the Loire Valley maker of black raspberry liqueur.

Chambord-flavored vodka is just that. It is French vodka, distilled from grains. The Chambord Black Rasberry flavor is then infused into the spirit. The result is a 75-proof pink vodka. Pushed with an ad message of "Pink Your Drink," the idea for the vodka was driven not only by the growth of the flavored vodka market, but by the fact that Chambord was already an ingredient in several popular vodka cocktails.

Chambord Liqueur, marketed and distributed by Brown-Forman, has seen a sales slide in the last 18 months due to the decline in the on-premise business effected by the economic downturn. Flavored vodka is one of the few solid growth areas of the spirits business. Flavoring, in fact, is going beyond vodka and into whiskies. Jim Beam successfully rolled out Jim Beam Red Stag, a cherry-flavored Bourbon, in 2009.

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A $2 Million Bottle of Chambord

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The latest in jewel-encrusted liquor bottles is a bejeweled twist on the classic Chambord Royal orb bottle. Chambord by Donald Edge was was unveiled in conjunction with the opening of "Breakfast at Tiffany's," starring Anna Friel and Joseph Cross at the Theatre Royal Haymarket London. The unique bottle of French black raspberry liqueur is decorated with more than 60 carats of diamonds, including 1,100 round brilliant cut, pear cut, a square cut emerald diamond, along with pearls, all of which were set in 18 karat yellow gold.The bottle is worth $2 million. The designated website features a great photo gallery of the creation of the bottle.

[via Diamonds.net]

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