Super Sips for Super Bowl 2024: 12 Cocktail Recipes to Liven Up Your Big Game Celebrations

As the countdown to Super Bowl 2024 begins, it’s time to elevate your game-day experience with a winning lineup of cocktails that are sure to score big with your guests. Whether you’re a die-hard football fan or just in it for the commercials, one thing’s for certain: the right drinks can turn an ordinary gathering into an extraordinary one.

From festive punches to crowd-pleasing libations, here are 12 cocktail recipes (plus one bonus mocktail) for a lively Super Bowl showdown!

Ocean Punch

• 2 parts Gray Whale Gin
• 2 parts Cranberry juice
• 2 parts Coconut water
• 2 parts Water
• 1 part Pear juice
• Garnish: Sliced apples, sliced pears and mint sprigs

Combine all ingredients in a punch bowl with several large ice cubes. Garnish with sliced apples, sliced pears and mint sprigs. Serve in individual glasses. Scale up for larger parties!

Mr. Micawaber’s Hot Gin Punch

• 4 parts Hendrick’s Gin
• 4 parts Madeira Wine
• 2 teaspoons of brown sugar
• Peel from 1 whole lemon and 1 whole orange
• 1 slice of orange
• 4 chunks of pineapple
• 4 teaspoons of honey
• Pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon
• Garnish: Orange and cloves

Combine all ingredients in a small pot and simmer gently for 30 minutes. Pour into a teapot or other heat-safe vessel, and serve warm in teacups or mugs. This recipe is ideal for Big Game celebrations taking place in chillier climates.

NOLET’S Silver Touchdown Punch

• 1 cup NOLET’S Silver Gin
• 1 cup Bourbon
• 1 cup Fresh lime juice
• 1.5 oz. Angostura Aromatic Bitters
• 1/2 cup Ginger syrup*
• 3 cups Soda water (can substitute for 3 1/2 cups of Ginger Beer)
• Lime wheels and sliced jalapeño

Combine all ingredients (except the soda water) in a pitcher with ice. Stir and serve over ice in a rocks glass. Add a generous splash of soda water and garnish with a lime wheel and a jalapeño slice. This recipe makes a batch of 6–8 cocktails.

* Ginger Syrup Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup Fresh ginger, peeled and sliced
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 cup Water

Combine all the ingredients in a small saucepan. Heat on medium, stirring occasionally, until the sugar is dissolved. Simmer for 30 minutes to allow the ginger to bloom. Store unused portions in a sealed container and refrigerate.

Karma is the Guy on the Chiefs

• 1 oz Roku Gin
• 1 oz Cocchi Americano
• 0.75 oz Giffard Abricot du Roussillon
• 0.75 oz Grapefruit juice
• 1.5 oz Prosecco
• 2 dashes of Regan’s Orange Bitters
• Garnish: Orange Twist

Add ingredients to a shaking tin, shake with cube ice, and double strain into a flute. Top with Prosecco and express and garnish with an orange twist. Created by Beverage Manager Kyle Bobkowski, this cocktail is available at XR at Crossroads Hotel.

The Botanist 50/50 Martini Highball

• 1 oz The Botanist Islay Dry Gin
• 1 oz Dry vermouth
• 2 dashes of orange bitters
• Premium soda water

Build ingredients over ice in a highball glass. Garnish with a citrus twist, and it’s ready to serve!

Mediterranean Gin & Tonic

• 1.5 oz Gin Mare
• 6-7 oz Premium tonic water
• Garnish: Orange twist and rosemary sprig

Build the cocktail in a balloon glass with ice, and garnish with an orange twist and rosemary sprig.

Savoia Boulevardier

• 2 parts Savoia Americano
• 1 part London dry gin or bourbon
• 4-5 ice cubes
• Garnish: Orange slice

Fill a rocks glass with ice cubes, add the ingredients, stir gently and garnish with an orange slice.

Red Snapper

• 1.5 parts Fords Gin
• 4-6 parts tomato juice
• 2 dash Worcestershire
• 4 dash Tabasco
• A pinch of salt and black pepper
• 2 splashes of lemon juice
• Garnish: Lemon wedge or celery stick

Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass and roll it back and forth between two mixing glasses to combine the ingredients. Strain into a highball glass filled ¾ with ice. Garnish with a lemon wedge or celery stick.

Bees Knees

• 2 oz Samuel Maverick Barrel Aged Texas Dry Gin
• 0.75 oz Wildflower honey simple syrup
• 0.75 oz Fresh lemon juice

Combine shaken and strained ingredients into a coupe cocktail glass and enjoy!

Italicus Negroni Bianco

• 1 part Italicus Rosolio di Bergamotto
• 1 part London Dry Gin
• 1 part Dry Vermouth 

Serve in a tumbler glass with cubed ice and garnish with three green olives.

Empress 1908 French Blonde

• 1 oz Empress 1908 Indigo Gin
• 1.5 oz Lillet Blanc
• 0.5 oz Elderflower liqueur (we recommend  St-Germain)
• 0.25 oz Fresh lemon juice
• 2 oz Fresh grapefruit juice
• Garnish: Lemon twist

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice, and shake until chilled. Strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a lemon twist and enjoy!

The French Blond recently snagged the title of Taylor Swift’s new favorite drink. As her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, gears up for the Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs, this sweet and tart cocktail serves as a playful nod to the singer’s connection to the upcoming game.

Rhubarb Fizz

• 1 oz Warner’s Rhubarb Gin
• 0.5 oz Lemon juice
• 0.25 oz Simple syrup
• Prosecco

Add all the ingredients (except prosecco) to an ice-filled shaker and shake well (approximately 10 seconds). Double strain into your flute. Top up with prosecco and garnish with a rhubarb stick.

Bonus: LaCroix Pamplemousse Crimson Sparkler Mocktail

• Fresh raspberries
• Squeeze of grapefruit
• 1/4 cup of pomegranate juice
• 4 oz Pamplemousse LaCroix

Muddle raspberries at the bottom of a highball glass. Add a squeeze of grapefruit, ice, pomegranate juice and Pamplemousse LaCroix. Stir, and garnish with raspberries.

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