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Foodball: Hatch Chile Infused Vodka

On 01/05/2015 By sarah sprague
Foodball: Hatch Chile Infused Vodka Hatch chiles have a real floral element to them and when pared with vodka, the fruity element of the chile really sings. You don’t even need to wait to put it in your breakfast cocktail, serve chilled over ice and it is great sipping spirit. If drinking straight vodka isn’t [...]
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Foodball: Thanksgiving Scotch Cider

On 03/29/2014 By sarah sprague
Scotch Cider In addition to the physical heat radiating off your cider, this drink has warmth from both the scotch and the spices. Peppercorns help pick up the scotch and a add nice spark. Raw sugar is just a little more earthy than white sugar thanks to the molasses, which in turn echoes the peat in [...]
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Foodball Spicy Boozy Cafe Mocha For Tailgating (And Trick-Or-Treating*)

On 03/29/2014 By sarah sprague
Spicy Boozy Cafe Mocha For Tailgating (And Trick-Or-Treating*) This drink was inspired by my buddy Josh in Albuquerque who one day last year talked about having a really good chile mocha on a cold morning. Of course you could booze that baby up for tailgating. Of course you want to. The heat from the chile [...]
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Roasted Mezcal Bloody Marys

On 09/06/2013 By sarah sprague
Roasted Mezcal Bloody Marys 2013 Foodball Kickoff: Roasted Mezcal Bloody Marys As I said last season when I wrote about Pizza Bloody Marys, there isn’t a better cocktail for tailgating or for morning brunch football on the west coast than a bloody mary. Still a little hungover from Saturday night? Need just a few [...]
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Sparking Blueberry Non-Alcoholic Mojito

On 02/01/2013 By sarah sprague
Designated Driver Sparking Blueberry Non-Alcoholic Mojito  Be a good host and offer something more than soda or water for the designated drivers at your Super Bowl Party. It’s a nice way to show them you appreciate them driving your drunk-ass friends home at the end of the night so they don’t end up sleeping on your [...]
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Pizza Bloody Mary: Football Foodie Brunch

On 10/19/2012 By sarah sprague
We’ve reached that awful point of the NFL season where there is an incredible imbalance on the Sunday schedule, a bunch of early games and then only two or three games with a 4 ET/1 PT kickoffs. This inequity drags on until after Thanksgiving, giving us plenty of weeks like this week [...]
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Tangerine Tequlia Punch: Football Foodie Kickoff!

On 08/28/2012 By sarah sprague
Obviously, this is a very strong drink. Wait until after you’ve made your fantasy moves for the week to have a glass of this punch or you might attempt to start Deion Sanders at place kicker, get upset that Yahoo(!) won’t let you start Deion Sanders at place kicker, yell at your monitor for a [...]
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High Shirley: The trashiest yet most delicious beer cocktail you will ever make for the Pro Bowl

On 01/30/2012 By sarah sprague
This drink shouldn’t work. It has no business tasting as good as it does. The sparkly High Life makes the grenadine pop, while cutting through the sweetness all at the same time. Bry kept stealing sips from my glass, asking over and over, “How can it taste this good?”
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Blueberry Margaritas: 28 Days of Super Bowl Recipes

On 01/26/2012 By sarah sprague
Even though lemon is the natural accompaniment to blueberries, lime works just as well in this drink. Also, I really wanted to get a stronger blueberry taste, so I increased the amount of blueberries while doubling the total amount of simple syrup being made so we’d have enough for the entire divisional weekend games. The [...]
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The Groundskeeper: Football Foodie Beta Testing Failures in Cocktails

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
Sometimes in the name of research you make terrible mistakes. Terrible, terrible mistakes.
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Chocolate Stout Ice Cream with Chocolate Bourbon Swirl

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
Of course, beer and bourbon make even ice cream tougher and more rugged sounding. When put together, chocolate stout and bourbon sounds like an ice cream that even James Harrison would eat, after he forced you back ten yards, of course.
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Jalapeno Cilantro Beer Margaritas

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
Beer margaritas are a fairly commonplace tailgate drink because they’re easy, tasty, scalable and contain a serious amount of alcohol. Generally made with cheap beer, a can of sickly sweet frozen limeade and tequila, traditional beer margaritas tend to taste like they belong in a Slurpee machine and not your cup.
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Guest post over on SB Nation today! Steelers and Packers Jelly Jello Shots and Texas Rose Punch for the Super Bowl

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
Still looking for Super Bowl themed cocktails for tomorrow? Over at SB Nation I’ve got you covered for Steelers and Packers Jelly Jello shots and Texas Rose Punch.
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The Suffering Bastard

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
The Suffering Bastard is a classic old British Empire recipes with many variations. You can use ginger beer for ginger ale (like you would for a traditional Dark and Stormy), Rose’s lime juice for fresh lime, and can be served with or without bitters. Some people prefer to make the cocktail with bourbon, although the [...]
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Thursday Football Dessert, Vanilla Ice Cream, Single Malt Scotch and Ground Pepper

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
Just a quick Thursday Night Football dessert suggestion if you are looking for something sweet to finish off the Colts season tonight’s Indianapolis-Tennessee game. Good vanilla ice cream, about an ounce of single malt scotch (it doesn’t have to be the good stuff), and a few turns of the pepper grinder yields a sweet treat [...]
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Maker’s Mark Manhattan Mini Cupcakes

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
December is also when football watching all weekend, every weekend starts to become an iffy proposition because of all the aforementioned holiday parties, cookie exchanges and treats for the office you’re baking for. Which is why I start looking for treats in December that can pull double duty between bringing to a football event (boozy) [...]
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Mint Julep Jelly Shots

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
While most people think of beer when they think of football and tailgating, I love bourbon-based drinks and football. It wasn’t always this way. I spent my 21st birthday at Lafayette for the Leigh-Lafayette Rivalry weekend, and when I arrived at my friend’s dorm he handed me a handle of Jim Beam with the direction, [...]
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Beer popcicles

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
Beer pops are one of those things that have been around forever, but every once in awhile everyone gets all excited for them all again after they show up in hip restaurants like Diablo Royale Este in New York City. They’re super easy to make (as long as you have the freezer space), [...]
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Red, White and Blue Shots

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
Not sure how to celebrate Team USA’s gold medal run while incorporating your love of the SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS meme?   Nationalistic alcohol, that’s how!
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Mudslides

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
On a lark, Josh (aka Punte) from With Leather held a pool for the 18 countries who only had one athlete participating in the 2010 Winter Olympics for which country would have the highest overall finish. My draw was Dow Travers (official Olympic page, Twitter), from the Cayman Islands [...]
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You WILL Have Enough Ice

On 01/03/2012 By sarah sprague
Why?  Because a good drink starts with a good foundation.  Not enough ice in the beer cooler? Warm beer.  Not enough ice in the ice bucket?  Warm cocktails and even worse if you’re the designated driver, warm soda.  Nothing is sadder than the poor designated driver at the end of the evening, just staring at [...]
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New Orleans Style Pimm’s Cups & Cucumber Tapas

On 01/02/2012 By sarah sprague
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of flipping on Kurt Warner’s press conference to announce his retirement. Forty minutes later and I cannot put together a single cohesive thought to save my life.  I cannot think of any other profession where one person’s decision to leave a job — other than late night talk show hosts, [...]
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Phillips Head Screwdrivers

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
Okay, so it is just a screwdriver. But if you make it with pineapple vodka, call it phillips head screwdriver. Still much tastier than plain old vodka and OJ.
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Black Russians

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
The one downside to cheese is sometimes your stomach does not feel so hot later on.  Or maybe you did drink too much Icehouse.  Or maybe you’re just getting old.   But you do not want to stop drinking, or you just want a nightcap, or maybe you’re just out of Tums. This is where classic [...]
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Blood Orange Bourbon

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
The original recipe for this cocktail calls for plain blood orange juice.  Since that is often difficult to find, we went for the sparkling blood orange juice they carry at my local market.
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Beer Floats

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
Over the summer, we went to the LA Beer Float Showdown at the Blue Palms down the hill from us.  (Rumor has it that the Blue Palms turns into a Steelers bar on Sundays, but since we already spend about $2300 on the NFL Sunday Ticket, I tend to prefer staying [...]
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Balaliaka!

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
Equal parts vodka, Cointreau, and lemon juice.  Serve over crushed ice.  Pray for the end of 100 degree days, if only because hockey is already in the preseason.
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Five Points

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
At Essex’s sister outpost, Boho, they make the same cocktail substituting gin for the bourbon called the Bee’s Knees.  While summer heat still has not given way to the cool evenings of fall, it makes for great afternoon refresher while tailgating.
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Mint Juleps

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
For the same reasons Mint Juleps are the perfect Derby refreshment, they make a great football beverage. A drink you sip slowly, letting the ice slowly melt and stretch your cocktail even further.  (It also provides a nice lasting buzz that will continue past the Sunday Night Game with Olbermann and Patrick and right into [...]
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Bloody Mary

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
Oh sure, you can just buy some Bloody Mary mix at the store, stick a stalk a celery in it and call it day, much like the Bucs field a team, hand it a ball, and call it “football”. You are better than that, and yes, I am talking right to you Gruden.
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Mary Pickfords

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
This is one of those great fate ideas. I already knew I wanted to do all vegetarian friendly items for this FFF, but didn’t have any thoughts on a drink. Still too hot for beer in my mind. Didn’t feel like going to BevMo for anything I was out of at the bar. (Which really, [...]
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Rusty Nail

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
This evening on “Masterpiece Cocktail,” we’ll be discussing a drink of fine stature that should be enjoyed in only the most civilized of occasions and company. And while its name is somewhat deceiving, it’s a rather rich and complex drink with many layers that is best sipped by an expert tongue.
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Stoli Blueberri Fizz

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
Garnish with more blueberries, to give yourself the appearance of getting in a full serving of fruit.
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Watermelon-Vodka Slushees

On 12/31/2011 By sarah sprague
Anyone who knows me, knows I love slushees, Slurpees, and dream of someday having the water-only Slurpee; The Turpee.
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