Georgia Bulldogs Mixology: The Alabama Tailgate Cocktail
By Josh Johns
This week Georgia Bulldogs Mixology lays down some heavy-handed metaphors, talks Hilary Duff, creates a custom cocktail, and manages to not bring up 2012…never mind.
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Undoubtedly, the best song about rain written in the past 25 years or so is Hilary Duff’s 2003 smash single “Come Clean” off of her second studio album Metamorphosis.
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Oh wow, you’re still here? Great. Thanks for sticking around, more fun to come.
You see, I was going to intro this week’s cocktail with a flurry (that’s a pun) of weather jokes as well as my official power rankings of songs about rain so that you could queue up a red-hot-rain-mega-playlist so even the expected downpours in Athens this Saturday couldn’t dampen (also a pun!) your good time.
But I deleted all that. It didn’t feel right. This column is, at it’s heart, simply about fine cocktails that YOU can serve at your next tailgate. This week, however, for the first time I felt the urge to try and say something more. So just like Hil-Dawg before me, I too must come clean . . .
I have been having serious doubts that we are going to win this game.
Seriously. I’m just really not that confident. Sure we are favored. Sure we are home. Sure we are undefeated. Sure I think we can come close, but winning?! Seems suspicious.
It is going to be a rain soaked slobber knocker
Now, none of my doubts have actually anything to do with the two teams playing on the field this Saturday. No, like so many of my Georgia peers I just kinda assume that we will lose this game because we are Georgia fans and bad things seem happen to us under the brightest lights, and they are of course Alabama fans and long ago they sacrificed Mike Shula to their benevolent dark god to ensure the wild party will never (well, almost never) ever end.
But what if it wasn’t that way? Imagine a world where Georgia is not oppressed by past failures nor is Alabama buoyed by their former success. What would that look like, this brave new world?
That is what I am pitching you this week. It is going to be a rain soaked slobber knocker and everyone (including myself) is going to have to come to terms that we are fielding a GOOD Georgia team full of talented individuals and play makers capable of going out there and winning football games, no matter the opponent. Georgia has never faced THIS Alabama team, and Alabama has never faced THIS Georgia team.
Records stand at 0-0 and all that matters is this Saturday. If we as a fan base can get over our collective fears of a let down, or our terrified admiration of a rival program I think we will have a whole lot of fun this this weekend. Now, this strategy has worked only once before. I am of course referring plucky Camp North Star’s heroic triumph over Camp Mohawk as documented in the 1979 comedy Meatballs starring Bill Murray…but it was affective!
It is in this spirit our friend and mystical guide Joey Vargas of American Whiskey NYC set to work on a truly original cocktail to be served at your tailgate this weekend. A completely unique take on an old Alabama standard stripped from the heart of Tuscaloosa and the confines of yesteryear and into your tailgate or game-watching party this Saturday.
Metaphors y’all!
The Red & Black Hammer
Ingredients:
1.0 oz lime juice
.75 simple syrup
2.0 Jamaican rum (Appleton Estate works great!)
2 dashes angostura bitters
Directions:
- Add all ingredients into your glass (or solo cup).
- Cover and shake, but not for too long, we don’t want too much dilution for this one.
- Strain over ice.
- Top with soda water.
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And there you have it, a brand new cocktail the whole family can enjoy provided all of your family is above the age of 21 or you have the “cool” mom so it’s, like, totally fine. Tina, just chill, no one is going to tell.
Have a few of these and see how you feel about the game. Better, right? Me too. Exercising the specter of Alabama’s powerhouse past from the conversation you have to start feeling better about our chances this weekend. Don’t get me wrong, we here at Bulldog Mixology truly believe these two teams are going to war with one another, but in the end we just might have the troops to win that war. And if we don’t, at least we won the cocktail. Clear minds, full hearts, let’s booze.
Until next time!
Joey Vargas: As head bartender at American Whiskey NYC, Joey Vargas brings his signature approachable charm to the crafted cocktail. A former Baseball player at USF, and a self-described “shot and a beer guy,” Joey became accidentally enamored with bar tending while working as a bartender at the John Dory Oyster Bar between 2011 and 2013. Wanting a craftsman not simply a mixologist behind the bar, Joey quickly rose through the ranks in NYC. Now, a head bartender at American Whiskey NYC, Joey spends his free time with his kickball team “The Rescue Rangers” and watching his dog Delgado chase squirrels.
Josh Johns: A University of Georgia graduate, Josh works for Valiant Comics in New York City. As an intern at Marvel Comics he once eat 28 KFC Double Downs in 14 days.
Special thanks to American Whiskey, NYC. Your home for the Dawgs in NYC. Located at 247 West 30th street follow them online at http://www.americanwhiskeynyc.com/, on Twitter at @WhiskeyAmerican, and on Instagram at @AmericanWhiskeyNYC.