DawgCast Cocktails

2020 Cocktail Winner
Kryptonite Fanfare

Midori
Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
Malibu Coconut Rum
Bacardi 151 Rum
Pineapple juice

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2019 Cocktail Winner
Our Thyme – A Dawg’s Time

4 oz Bulleit Bourbon (don’t be stingy)
Honey
Splash of lemon
2 Sprigs of Thyme
Ice

All-American Tip: Simmer 8 sprigs of fresh Thyme with 1/2 cup of agave in 2 cups of water to make a Honey-Thyme simple syrup. At the tailgate, add bourbon, then 2oz of the syrup and top with ice. Garnish with a sprig of Thyme.

2018 Cocktail Winner
The Sanford Stadium Sunset (aka The Sanford)

Perfect for sipping on a fall Saturday while watching the Dawgs dismantle their opponent.

Had some dark cherry concentrate in the fridge as I heard it was good to treat the occasional bout with gout….Turns out it makes a great ingredient to add to your favorite drink….Ok so here’s the Sanford:

2oz bourbon
1/2oz simple syrup
1/2oz dark cherry concentrate

Serve over ice, chilled
Garnish with a Luxardo cherry

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2017 Cocktail Winner
The Sophomore Sling

This year’s cocktail is one for the fearless, just like our coach and team are gonna be. Beer cocktails are all the rage and the Dawgs are gonna be raging too. This is a beer and bourbon drink made with all GA ingredients. It is not for sissies, just like UGA and you don’t come at it more than once ‘cause it will knock you upside your head just like the D-line is going to dominate the SEC and all of college football this season.

People call the second season the Sophomore Slump and that could go for Kirby or Jacob Eason but neither one of them is gonna have that happen. Because I am a Dawg fan and thus an eternal optimist, I’m calling this one the Sophomore Sling. Jacob Eason is gonna sling the ball for a million yards when Nick Chubb’s not running it right down somebody’s gut. Are you ready? I AM!!!

Here it is:

One of Athens’s own Terrapin Rye Pale Ales
1.5 oz of Four Roses Bourbon (GA’s own bourbon – distillery founded in Atlanta in 1888)
One Lemon slice
One Mint sprig

Tall glass full of ice. I prefer a Poss’s stadium cup with Jack Davis (God rest his soul) art on it. Pour the bourbon over the ice. Crush that mint sprig between your fingers like one of our D-backs crushing anything that gets near them. Drop it in, like Eason dropping one in on Nauta. Pour that Pale Ale over the top just like Herschel used to go and stir it up like we’re gonna stir up the college football world this year. Garnish with the lemon. Drink carefully. It’s got that Bulldog Bite…

2016 Cocktail Winner
The Smart Ass

New season, new coach, new attitude. Is it “The Process” that Kirby learned under Satan, I mean, Saban? Is it the skinny QB in the mix? Is it the Real Deal Holyfield? I think it’s the coach. We all know Kirby is a very smart guy so the new cocktail is in his honor.

Everywhere you go these days you see a multitude of drinks called a Mule. Moscow Mule, Montana Mule, what have you… Now as Old Dawg knows, down here below the gnat line, a mule ain’t nothin’ but a jackass. An ass. So, I introduce to you the Smart Ass.

Get you some Clyde May’s Conecuh Ridge Alabama Style Whiskey. It’s made from a bootlegger’s formula from Southeast Alabama not far from Kirby’s birthplace in Montgomery. Put a bunch of it in your stadium cup. No need for them girly-ass copper cups. Cut a lime in quarters and squeeze one or two in with your whiskey. Mash it up good. Ice it down like Eason’s shoulder. Add some good ginger beer (the spicy kind with a kick like a Brice Ramsey punt) or hell, just go with the Red Rock. Stir it around like a Sony Michel juke move. Drink it down. It’ll make you feel smarter after the first sip. Pure GA class with a little Alabama inside. Maybe it’s what we’ve needed for a while. The Smart Ass.