New Trend: Beer Cocktails

Beer before liquor? Liquor before beer? Why not them both at the same time!

A while ago I found a recipe for a beer punch in a magazine. Unfortunately I mis-placed the recipe before ever getting the chance to make it. While I'm sure it's around my apartment somewhere, I was fortunate enough to come across a new recipe, Raspberry Beer Cocktail, while exploring my newest obsession: Pinterest. This recipe comes from Southern Living and I thought it'd be the perfect refreshment while I watched my #11 Hokies take on #13 Clemson in a head to head ACC match up.

Recipe: Raspberry Beer Cocktail

3/4 cup of frozen raspberries (can substitute fresh raspberries)
3 1/2 bottles (12 oz) of beer, chilled
1 (12 oz) container frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate, thawed
1/2 cup vodka
Garnish: Lemon and Lime slices

This recipe leaves some choices to the consumer, fresh or frozen raspberries, kind of beer, brand of lemonade and vodka, garnish? I went with Market Pantry frozen red raspberries, Bud Light bottles, Minute Maid raspberry lemonade concentrate and Summom Vodka. For the beer, a light beer just makes the most sense if you're mixing it and Summom is a great new vodka I discovered that's only $10 and blows Smirnoff out of the water. Basically you just mix all of the ingredients together, stir, pour and you're done! You can alter the amounts based on how many people you're serving and how alcoholic you want the drink to be. I ended up only using 3 beers because I was using a smaller pitcher and thought it was pointless to open another beer to only use half and wasn't sure I could fit a full fourth beer in there. Everything else I pretty much followed the given measurements. The results were delicious and very refreshing! I definitely recommend this cocktail for your next tailgate, party, or "home-gate" on your own sofa!

~Happy 2010!~

Happy 2010 everyone! I rang in the New Year at a fun Black & White party with a few of my favorite people while watching my beloved Hokies win the Chick-fil-a bowl!

In my personal life, I have a lot of things to look forward to in the new year. My boyfriend Gary and I will have officially been together 2 years on January 18. Then in March I will be in my brother Andrew's wedding in Montana and my parents and I are taking a trip to Hawaii right after the wedding! In April I will start my second baseball season with the Trenton Thunder on the 8th and will also hit that milestone birthday of 25 years old on the 20th!

As for my sports teams that I'm passinate about, 2010 means the Redskins can wash that horrible taste of their 2009 season out of their mouths by starting fresh with a new coach (yet to be named), a #4 draft pick, and hope for better things to come in 2010. My New York Yankees will get the chance to defend their world championship title in the 2010 season although they'll be doing it without my favorite player of recent years, Melky Cabrera. The Hokies basketball team has done well so far this season so I am looking forward to them making a splash in this years March madness tournament.

I'm not really the type to make official "New Years Resolutions" but I do like to make "to-do" lists and set personal goals for myself. I haven't done a great job at completing these lists and goals but they're still fun to make! One thing that I would like to do is to actually write more than 7 blog posts in 2010, even if no one actually reads them :-) I am planning on blogging about anything and everything from my random babblings to recipes, product reviews and more. Stay tuned!