Red Brick Tavern Witches Brew Recipe from 10 Happy Halloween Cocktails
Bar manager Kelley Meredith chose to share a cocktail recipe with "witches" in the name, but reports of a ghost are the draw at the Meredith Red Brick Tavern, a restaurant and bar in Lafayette, Ohio where he's worked for 24 years.
Legend has it that a woman who lived in Lafayette shortly after the tavern opened in 1836 killed herself on the second floor when she learned her fiance was in love with someone else and her spirit now haunts the place.
While he's noted a few lights that mysteriously turn on after he's turned them off and swinging doors that open and shut on their own, Meredith never put much stock in the story until the summer of 2007.
"One of my long-time customers was moving out of state and wanted to take my photo behind the bar with her cell-phone camera," he remembers. "When she showed me and some other employees the photo, you couldn't even see my head, just my body, with a woman's head, standing behind me with her hand on my shoulder and her arm around me."
Meredith still says he's "not a firm believer, but I can't explain that photo."
As for the drink, Meredith says the restaurant featured it with plastic eyeballs to float the shots on top of the drink a couple of years back.
Ingredients:
2 oz. mixed pineapple and cranberry juice
2 oz. 7-Up
1 1/4 oz. shot Malibu Coconut Rum
Instructions:
1. Mix juices and 7-Up in a highball glass.
2. Pour shot down the side of the glass right before drinking.
Recipe courtesy Kelley Meredith, bar manager, Red Brick Tavern, Lafayette, Ohio
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