The Drunken Tailgate

White Guy Dance Off: Florida vs. Penn State

I especially like the guy who’s randomly chugging Jim Beam from the bottle.

The old guy doing the mosh pit/upside down beer chug at the end is kinda impressive. I don’t know how you even talk someone into that.

Hop Skip and Go Naked Punch Recipe

Well I’d have to say that the recipe for Hop Skip and Go Naked might just be the only manly punch I’ve ever come across. If it has beer and whiskey that’s acceptable to drink right? Seems like a good drink alternative for an early morning tailgate or a sweltering 90° afternoon in Aug/September.

Ingredients:

Six 12-oz. cans of beer
1 pint of Canadian whiskey
One 12-oz. can of frozen lemonade concentrate
2 liters of lemon-lime soda

Preparation:

1. In a gallon container add beer, whiskey and frozen lemonade (and optional lemon-lime soda).
2. Stir and serve over ice.

Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

The Delightful Delicacy brings us a recipe for Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes. Hopefully you have a wife or girlfriend at your tailgate that you can convince to make these. Thanks to The Grinder for the heads up and funny commentary on Notre Dame:

“Now, obviously, the violent history of the Irish Republican Army isn’t something to joke about. I was at a college bar at Notre Dame the first time I saw a shot of Baileys and Jameson get plunked into a pint of Guinness, which was then sucked down by an Irish-studies student. At the time, I wondered if his heartbreak over the sad history of Northern Ireland was what drove him to chug that spiked pint in one gulp, but I later learned that (a) the drink will curdle if you don’t consume it quickly, and (b) that dude was totally insensitive.”

Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

Cupcake Ingredients:
1 cup Guiness
1 stick, plus 1 tbs unsalted butter
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups dark brown sugar
3/4 cup sour cream
2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla extract
2 cups flour
2 1/2 tsp baking soda

Cupcake Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350; line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
2. Combine the Guiness and the butter, chopped into 1-inch chunks, in a large sauce pan, and heat to melt the butter.
3. Remove from heat, and whisk in the cocoa and sugar.
4. In a bowl, whisk the sour cream and the eggs and vanilla, then add to the beer mixture.
5. Sift together the flour and baking soda, and fold in the batter.
6. Pour into muffin molds and bake or 25 minutes, or until inserted cake tester comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes, remove from muffin tin, and cool completely on a rack.

Frosting Ingredients:
1 stick of unsalted butter, room temperature
3 cups confectioners’ sugar
Bailey’s Irish Cream
Jameson Irish Whiskey

Frosting Directions:
1. Put the stick of room-temperature butter in a large mixing bowl and bet at medium-to-high speed for a few minutes.
2. Add a few short glugs of Bailey’s and a tiny bit of Jameson, and mix at low speed.
3. Gradually spoon confectioners’ sugar into the bowl, mixing on low speed.

Victory Whiskey

Mizzourah gives us the story behind the creation of Victory Whiskey plus this additional anecdote.

“Later in the night, his four-year-old daughter woke up and came out of her room to see me drinking another glass of Victory Whiskey when she asked me if I wanted “to see how daddy makes his beer”. I, of course, said yes and proceeded to the kitchen. At that moment, she pointed to the shitty bottle of Captain Morgan Black Tattoo “and then he puts in soda”. That is the anti-Victory Whiskey, aka “Taste of Defeat”.

I might have to add a bottle of Macallans 12 to my tailgating supplies to satisfy my victory whisky needs.