The Big Game is just around the corner and there’s no better way to amplify your watch party than with some delicious cocktails. Your game day entertaining essentials are more than covered with recipes from award-winning brands like Monkey Shoulder Whisky, Fistful of Bourbon, Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, and Tullamore D.E.W. Show off your at-home mixology skills to your fellow fans, and even your rivals, with any of the below recipes. After all, a good cocktail will bring watching the Big Game, or even just the Half-Time Show, to life.

Fistful Old Fashioned
Ingredients:

• 2 parts Fistful of Bourbon
• ½ parts simple syrup
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Method:Combine ingredients and stir over ice. Strain over a large ice cube in a rocks glass. Garnish with a large grapefruit peel.

Fistful Highball
Ingredients:

• 1 ½ parts Fistful of Bourbon
• Topo Chico

Method: Build ingredients over ice in a tall glass

Sailor Jerry Pre-Game Punch
Ingredients:

• 6 parts Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
• 1 part lemon lime soda
• 6 parts spicy ginger beer
• 3 parts pineapple juice
• 1½ parts lime juice

Method: Combine all ingredients in a punch bowl or pitcher, fill with ice. To serve, pour into highball glasses and garnish with a lime wheel.

Jerry’s Tailgate Punch
Ingredients:

• 2 parts Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
• 2 parts lemonade
• 2 parts watermelon juice
• Top with American light lager

Method: Combine all ingredients in a pitcher or punch bowl. Garnish with lemon slices and mint.

Monkey Shoulder Blended Malt Scotch Whisky
The Halftime Show

Ingredient:

• 1 ½ parts Monkey Shoulder
• ½ part Aperol
• ½ part honey syrup
• ¾ parts fresh grapefruit juice
• Top with soda
• Grapefruit twist

Method: Combine all ingredients except soda in a shaker, add a pinch of salt before you shake cocktail,  shake and strain over ice in Collins glass. Top with soda (Topo Chico if available). Garnish with grapefruit twist.

I Make Monkey Moves
Ingredient:

• 1 ½ parts Monkey Shoulder
• ½ parts fresh lemon juice
• ½ part fresh orange juice
• ½ part honey syrup
• 3 dash orange bitters
• Top with dry prosecco or dry champagne
• Orange twist

Method: Combine all ingredients except prosecco in shaker with ice. Shake, double strain into coupe. Top with prosecco. Express orange twist, and then drop into drink as garnish.

Tullamore D.E.W. Irish Whiskey
The Tully Touchdown
Ingredients:

• 1 Tullamore D.E.W mini (50 ml or 1 ½ oz)
• 150ml/ 4oz Wheat Beer or Hefeweizen
• 10ml/ 1.5 oz cloudy lemonade
• Garnish: lemon peel, carved into football shape (see below image of lemon)

Method: Add beer and lemon juice to a tall, ice filled glass and stir. Top with lemonade and place Tully mini upside down in the glass. Garnish with lemon football and enjoy!