Thirsty Thursdays: Floating Brain Cocktail
By: Leah Rodrigues
Published: October 18, 2012

If you are thinking of throwing a Halloween party, the floating brain cocktail should be a signature beverage.  Irish cream liqueur is slowly added to a shot of peach schnapps, forming ribbons within the drink to make it appear like a brain.  A splash of grenadine adds a gory detail to the cocktail.  Your guests might be frightened but not enough to resist the floating brain cocktail.
Floating Brain Cocktail
Ingredients:



1 1/2 ounces peach schnapps
1 teaspoon fresh lime juice
1 1/2 ounces Bailey's Irish Cream
grenadine
 
Directions:
 








Pour the schnapps and lime juice into a shaker filled with ice.


   
Shake.


   
Strain into an on-the-rocks glass.


   
Drip a drop or two of grenadine into the glass, it will sink to the bottom and look like blood.


   
Dip the drinking straw into the Bailey's; place finger over your end to capture some inside the straw.


   
Insert filled straw into the center of the glass.


   
Allow Bailey's to slowly filter into the schnapps-lime liquid - it will form a ball that looks like a brain floating in formaldehyde.

Pour the schnapps and lime juice into a shaker filled with ice.


     
Shake.


     
Strain into an on-the-rocks glass.


     
Drip a drop or two of grenadine into the glass, it will sink to the bottom and look like blood.


     
Dip the drinking straw into the Bailey's; place finger over your end to capture some inside the straw.


     
Insert filled straw into the center of the glass.


     
Allow Bailey's to slowly filter into the schnapps-lime liquid - it will form a ball that looks like a brain floating in formaldehyde.