A touring cocktail-theater mashup built around Charles Dickens' ghost story is setting up shop inside a 142-year-old former church in San Antonio this December, pouring four holiday-themed drinks alongside a dark retelling of Scrooge's redemption. A Christmas Carol Cocktail Experience is booked for December 4 and 5 at The Spire at Sunset Station, marking the production's first appearance in the city.
The show is scheduled to take place at The Spire at Sunset Station, located at 1174 East Commerce, according to CultureMap San Antonio. The building itself has history baked into its bones: it was constructed as St. Paul Methodist Church in 1884 and remains built in the Gothic Revival style, per the same report. That setting gives the production's Victorian London backdrop a genuinely old-world frame to work with.
Billed as a dark, immersive reimagining of Dickens' timeless ghost story with a Victorian twist, the 90-minute experience pairs four holiday-themed cocktails with key scenes from the story, according to fortworth.culturemap.com, which is tracking the production's companion run in Fort Worth. The outlet reports the experience takes participants on a journey with Scrooge, Marley, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. The official event website describes it more bluntly as 90 minutes of dark comedy theatre, twisted storytelling, and four cocktails.
Four Scenes, Four Spirited Pairings
Each act comes with its own drink. Scene 1 opens with Ebenezer's Bitter Awakening, paired with a ghostly intro of Ebenezer Scrooge himself, per fortworth.culturemap.com's rundown of the production. That cocktail leans on tart lime, biting ginger, and a bitter edge, CultureMap San Antonio's report notes. Scene 2 brings Past, Present, and Punch, built around elderflower, cranberry, and citrus.
Scene 3 serves up Ghostly Gold Cider, which the event's featured-cocktails page describes with golden apples, caramel, and spice swirling in what it calls a spectral chalice. The finale, Scene 4's Ghost of Christmas Future segment, is paired with Marley's Marshmallow Martini — described elsewhere in the same coverage as chocolate-drenched and topped with ghostly fluff. Exact ingredients and liquor brand names have not been revealed, and mocktail alternatives will be available for guests who'd rather skip the spirits, per the same account.
Tickets, Timing and the Fine Print
General-admission tickets run $69 and include the performance and all four cocktails, while VIP tickets cost $84 and add front-row seating to the same four drinks, according to fortworth.culturemap.com. The event is restricted to guests 21 and older, cocktail attire is recommended, seating is provided, and the entire show runs indoors. Reported scheduling for the San Antonio dates includes sessions on December 4 at 6 p.m., 8 p.m., and 10 p.m., though available accounts conflict on whether a December 12 schedule of 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m., and 8 p.m. sessions applies to San Antonio or to the production's Fort Worth stop.
The production is produced by Midnight Creative, the same company behind the Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy and Serial Killer Speakeasy, according to fortworth.culturemap.com's coverage of the Fort Worth run. Guests are encouraged to arrive 15 minutes before their scheduled session, and tickets can reportedly be sent as gifts.
San Antonio's Growing Taste for Dickensian Drinks
San Antonio isn't short on holiday-ghost-themed sipping. Southtown House of Spirits ran its own black Christmas pop-up with festive décor and limited-time handcrafted cocktails inspired by the spirits of the season during the 2025 holiday season, as reported by sacurrent.com. That pop-up includes its own Christmas Past and Christmas Present drinks, plus a Ghost of Christmas Future cocktail built from dark rum, lemon, Demerara syrup, tea and cinnamon, per the same report.
Elsewhere in Texas, A Christmas Carol Cocktail Experience already made a stop at Garage HTX in Houston in November 2025, where tickets ranged from $55 to $65 and sessions ran every two hours across both days, according to 365thingsinhouston.com. That Houston run also featured live actors alongside the same four holiday-themed cocktails paired with key scenes. The broader tour is described as reaching nearly 70 U.S. cities this holiday season, including San Antonio's December 4-5 dates, per fortworth.culturemap.com.
