Kickoff With Cocktails for Game Day

The Recipe

• 1 ½ ounces Column 5 Texas Vodka

• 4 ounces ginger beer

• Lime wedge

• Mint sprig

Fill a copper mug with ice. Add vodka, then fill with ginger beer and stir. Squeeze the lime wedge over the drink and drop it into the cocktail. Garnish with a mint sprig.

The Recipe

• 2 ounces Quarter Horse Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

• 3 ounces sweet tea

• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

• Lemon wheel

Fill a glass with ice. Add bourbon, sweet tea and lemon juice. Stir gently to combine. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

The Recipe

• ½ bottle, Yellow Tail Big Bold Red 1.5L

• ¼ cup Paul Masson Very Smooth Brandy

• ¼ cup Charles Regnier Triple Sec

• 2 oranges, sliced into wheels

• 2 apples, cored and chopped

• Cinnamon stick

• Club soda

Combine wine, brandy, triple sec, oranges, apples and cinnamon stick to a pitcher. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours. When it is time to serve, pour into a glass over fresh ice and top with club soda. Garnish with soaked fruit from the pitcher.

The Recipe

• 2 ounces Bird Dog Blackberry Whiskey

• 5 mint leaves

• Handful of blackberries

• 1 ounce simple syrup

Combine whiskey and two mint leaves into a cocktail shaker and muddle. In a mixing glass, muddle remaining mint leaves, blackberries and simple syrup, then add ice. Strain the contents of the shaker into the glass and garnish with mint leaves.

The Recipe

• 1 ½ ounces The Famous Grouse Scotch

• ½ ounce fresh lime juice

• 4 ounces ginger ale

• Lime wedge

Fill a glass with ice, add Scotch and lime juice. Top with ginger ale and stir gently. Garnish with a lime wedge.

The Recipe

• 2 ounces Jack Daniel’s Old No.7 Tennessee Whiskey

• 3 ounces lemonade

• 1 ½ ounces cranberry juice

• ½ ounces Grand Marnier Liqueur

• Lemon wheel

Combine whiskey, lemonade, cranberry juice and liqueur in a glass with ice. Stir and garnish with lemon wheel.

The Recipe

• 1 ½ ounce Breckenridge Bourbon Whiskey

• ½ ounce Vanilla Bean Simple Syrup*

• 3 ounces Fanta Orange

• 2 ounces club soda

• Orange zest

*Vanilla Bean Simple Syrup:

• 1 cup water

• 1 cup sugar

• 1 ounce Nielsen-Massey Pure Vanilla Bean Paste

For vanilla bean simple syrup: Over medium heat add water, sugar and vanilla bean paste. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Let cool and bottle into heat-safe container. Shake before each use. Keep refrigerated for up to 2 weeks.

Add bourbon, simple syrup, Fanta Orange and club soda over ice. Stir to incorporate. Garnish with zest of orange.

The Recipe

• 1 ¼ ounces Platinum 7x Vodka

• 4 ounces Agalima Organic Bloody Mary Mix

• ¼ ounce fresh lemon juice

• Lime wheel

• Celery stalk

• Olive

Combine vodka, bloody Mary mix and lemon juice in a glass. Mix well and garnish with a lime wheel, celery stalk and an olive.

The Recipe

• 2 ounces Mi CAMPO Blanco Tequila

• 1 ounce cranberry juice

• 1 ounce fresh lime juice

• ½ ounce simple syrup

• Lime wheel

Fill a shaker with ice and add tequila, cranberry juice, lime juice and simple syrup. Shake well and strain into a glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with a lime wheel.

The Recipe

• 2 ounces Casa Azul Organic Blanco Tequila

• 1 ounce pressed coconut water or coconut water

• ½ ounce fresh lime juice

• 3 ounces Topo Chico Mineral Water Twist of Lime

• Lime wheel

Add tequila, pressed coconut water, lime juice and Topo Chico in a glass with ice. Stir and garnish with a lime wheel.

The Recipe

• 2 ounces Papa's Pilar Dark Rum

• 1 ounce chai tea

• ½ ounce Charles Regnier Amaretto

• ½ ounce cream of coconut

• Anise star

• Cinnamon stick

Combine rum, chai tea, amaretto and coconut creme into shaker over ice. Shake then pour into rocks glass. Garnish with anise star and cinnamon stick.