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Get ready for game day with these easy batched bourbon cocktails for a crowd

Save yourself some hassle and make a big batch cocktail for your buddies

By Georgina Torbet Jan 16, 2025 7:00 AM

Wyoming Whiskey

As you’re gearing up for Super Bowl Sunday, you might want to start considering your drinks options. If you’re hosting some friends for the game, the last thing you want is to be running around making drinks all day long — so we recommend a batched cocktail for easy drinks for all your buddies. We’ve got a trio of bourbon-based batched cocktail options to make your football hosting duties a snap.

Batched bourbon cocktails

Cran Bourbon Punch

Ingredients:

2.25 cups Wyoming Whiskey Small Batch Bourbon
2.5 tablespoons Angostura bitters
2 cups chilled extra-strong oolong
Extra-strong Oolong: In a small saucepan, bring 2 cups water to a simmer over medium-high heat. As soon as you spot the first bubble, add 6 cups Oolong tea bags, cover pan, remove from heat and let steep for 8-10 hours. Strain, seal and refrigerate for up to 2 days.
1 cup 2 tablespoons chilled cranberry syrup
Cranberry syrup: Combine 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar and 0.5 cup cranberries in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. When cranberries begin to pop, use a wooden spoon to crush them against the side of the pan and remove pan from heat. Let cool to room temperature, then strain through a fine mesh strainer into a resealable container.
0.5 cup water
0.75 cup fresh lemon juice

Method:

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Pour bourbon, bitters, chilled extra-strong Oolong, chilled cranberry syrup and water into a 2-quart pitcher and stir to mix. Seal well, cover and refrigerate.

Brown And Gold Derby

Ingredients:

1.5 bottles of Wyoming Whiskey Small Batch Bourbon
2.5 cups grapefruit juice
1 cup lime juice
2.5 cups simple syrup

Method:

Combine all ingredients and stir. Serve in a glass on the rocks and garnish with a sage leaf.

Buffalo Sunrise

Ingredients:

1.5 bottles of Wyoming Whiskey Small Batch
2.5 cups strawberry shrub
- Shrub: Rinse 1 cup of strawberries and cut into small pieces, then add 1 cup of sugar and let it set for up to 4 days. Once berries have created a syrup and most of the sugar is dissolved, strain fruit and sugar into a clean container. Be sure to press on the berries to get most of the juice out. Then add 1 cup of red wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar to the syrup and shake to mix.
7 cups club soda

Method:

Combine all ingredients and stir. Serve in a tall cocktail glass over ice and garnish with lemon.

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Four Roses’ 2026 Limited Edition Small Batch is its oldest blend yet

Bottle, Whiskey, Glass

Four Roses has announced the release of its 2026 Limited Edition Small Batch Bourbon next month — and this year’s batch reaches back further than any prior release, blending bourbons aged 14 to 23 years.

The new blend from the Lawrenceburg-based distillery combines four hand-selected batches across three of the distillery’s ten recipes: 14-year-old OBSK, 14-year-old OESK, 15-year-old OESV, and a 23-year-old OESK. It’s non-chill filtered and bottled at barrel strength, 109.2 proof.

The Gold Room Is Peak Gilded Age New York Glamour

Altar, Architecture, Building

As a New England WASP, I probably have a hereditary fondness for grand old rooms. My Boston Brahmin forebears, after trading religious zeal for mercantile ambition, liked nothing better than sipping claret, playing whist, and smoking cigars in their clubhouses on Beacon Hill. In private quarters adorned with mahogany paneling, maritime paintings, and marble fireplaces, my flinty ancestors chortled deep into the night—safely removed from wives, papists, and, God forbid, Yale men.

Since moving to New York City, I’ve delighted in finding bars that feel like clubhouses frozen in the Gilded Age. The Campbell in Grand Central comes to mind. The Rose Club at the Plaza. Although much newer, the Polo Bar gussies up the blue-blood clubhouse aesthetic with fabulous fare, a trophy-laden wine cellar, and an ultra-exclusive mystique. But the apotheosis of robber-baron extravagance is The Gold Room at Lotte New York Palace.

Classic lagers to drink if you want your beer to “taste like beer”

Pilsner Urquell

When you think about the flavor of beer, what do you imagine? To me, it’s a crisp, refreshing, no-frills lager. The type of beer you’d just as likely crack open on an unseasonably warm spring day while grilling as you would after an afternoon of mowing the lawn on a hot, hazy, humid summer day. It’s light, refreshing, and tastes like beer.

That’s not to say that there isn’t a place for chocolate- and coffee-centric porters or boozy, barrel-aged stouts, or even tart, lip-smacking sour beers. There is a time and place for those and many other styles. It’s just that sometimes I want to crack open a beer and not taste an explosion of tropical fruit juices or get bashed in the head with malts or oaky wood. I want a beer that tastes the way I imagine it should. Specifically, I’m thinking about a balanced, thirst-quenching lager.