‘Tis the spooky sipping season, the stuff your dreams—er, nightmares—are made of. A time of year for adults to enjoy this creeptastic holiday of bone-chilling Halloween shenanigans replete with deliciously potent potions. Three Augusta establishments are pulling out all the stops to raise your spirits by offering tasty (and somewhat terrifying) treats that you do not want to miss.
During Drift Raw Bar’s Pirate Week, you will find Netta’s Black Pearl concocted from Kraken Rum, pineapple, Blue Curaçao and grenadine. Drift will also feature a costume contest Saturday, where the winner will walk away with a booty of a Drift Raw Bar gift certificate in the amount of $200.
Jordon at Southbound Smokehouse Riverside has crafted a Halloween-esque riff on a WashingtoApple Shot with her other-worldly Wicked Poison Apple elixir. It’s an eerily delicious blend of whiskey, sour apple schnapps, cranberry juice and club soda.
Enjoy this or one of Southbound’s many Halloween cocktails Wednesday through Sunday while enjoying live music and perhaps participating in the dunk booth from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday’s big costume contest is not to be missed with a $250 cash prize for the winner.
The Mad Elephant–a spicy boiled peanut martini–is one of Calvin’s scary-good cocktails featured during Craft and Carnival: House of Horrors from Wednesday through Saturday. Each night has its own theme culminating with a costume contest on Saturday. (The winner will be picked Halloween night by Instagram followers.)
There’s no dearth of holiday fun to be had in our fair city. Your weekend could be wickedly delicious or deliciously wicked. It’s merely up to you to pick your poison.
Ann Beth Strelec is known around town as the Naked Epicurean, sampling the finest cocktails known to Augustans. Find out about adult beverages at The Augusta Press on the first and third Friday or on Instagram @NakedEpicurean
