Luckily these days companies like Truly and even Budweiser have taken into account the vast majority of people who work hard on their bodies and also want to occasionally go hard in the paint. 

Hard seltzer is the newest addition to the alcohol scene. We’ve all been drinking seltzer anyway- that guilt-free carbonated greatness- and now we can sip it with alcohol at the end of a long day without worrying about gaining a few pounds of bloat in the process.

Lots of companies have jumped on the hard seltzer bandwagon and all boast pretty much the same stats: 100 calories per can, lots of carbonated flavors and a minimal amount of carbs and sugar. Budweiser has created their own line of Budlight Seltzers in a variety of fun flavors that taste great and won’t kill your calories for the day. They’re made with fermented fruit alcohol which is cleaner than even the most common low-cal cocktails.

For a while, you could only buy hard seltzers in the grocery store or gas station, but now thankfully bars and clubs have stocked up and you can order a Truly or Budlight seltzer almost anywhere. A whole new culture has begun in the wake of these light beverages and quite ingeniously pulled gym rats from their eight o’clock bedtimes and back into the fun.

What a time to live in. No more summer pool parties worrying about alcohol bloat. No more skipping dinner for those whiskey calories. Hard seltzer goes hard for your body and tastes delicious too. 

So go hard. 

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1. Shandyland

A twist on our favorite candy-themed boardgame, set the game up as normal but every time you pick a colored-square card, follow the following drinking rules:

BLUE CARD- guys drink
PURPLE CARD- girls drink
ORANGE CARD- player who picked the card drinks
YELLOW CARD- player who picked the card picks someone to drink
DOUBLE CARD- player who picked the card drinks and picks one other player to drink as well
PEOPLE CARDS- player must choose a random person/celebrity and other players must ask YES or NO questions until they guess the person. Whoever wins this challenge gets to choose who drinks.
PLACES CARDS- player must choose TRUTH or DARE and the person to the left can ask a question or dare them to do something. The player may opt out by downing the rest of their drink.

Play this game with a delightful shandy recipe using your favorite beer!

2. Battle Shots

You don’t need the game or pieces for this one, but you will need a few other items:
-12 shot glasses (size doesn’t matter)
-a divider of some sort for the middle of the table (you can even stack some books- just make sure the other team can’t see where your battleshots are)
-a marker
-light colored table cloth you can write on

Use a ruler or book to create a battle ship board on the table cloth. Label the x-axis with letters and the y-axis with numbers, place your shots and start calling out coordinates. If you have a shot on B5 and the other team guesses “B5″, you must sink your battleshot- into your mouth. Keep the shots at 1 ounce for maximum play time.

3. Twisted-er

The game of Twister is already hard enough when you’re sober. Make the rule if you fall you drink, and its hilariously impossible. Use food coloring in shots of light colored liquor to make it even more interesting. If you miss a red dot, drink a red shot.

4. Pictionary

This game gets more and more fun as it goes along. Have everyone write phrases on separate index cards. 20 phrases per person is good. It makes it fun to put inappropriate stuff on the cards, but obviously, know your audience. Phrases could be things like “Does a bear scat in the woods?” or “She’s not the brightest crayon in the box.” Divide into teams and start picking cards to draw for the other team to guess. Set a timer for 1 minute and if they haven’t guessed the phrase, they drink and your team gets a point. Whoever has the most points wins!

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THE QUARANTINI

A new spin on a yellow fever, the quarantini is a combination of sweet and sour- kind of like life when you’re stuck at home.

1 1/2 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce Galliano
1/2 ounce lime juice
1 ounce pineapple juice
garnish with toilet paper to show how rich you are

THE VODKA-C 

Put a little vitamin C into your life with this spritzer. Orange juice and any immune boosting powder added to vodka creates a funny little ode to our immune systems and a delicious, hilarious party drink.

2 oz vodka
splash of orange juice
1/2 Emergen-C packet
splash of sparking water
garnish with oranges

THE CURE

Find some old test tubes or beakers you have laying around and come up with your own cure- for quarantine boredom- with this delightful mix. You can substitute with any blue liquor.

2 oz Hypnotiq
2 oz white wine
splash of ginger ale
serve in beaker for maximum effect

The Social Dist-shandy

This one is for sharing with your social distancing buddies while relaxing in your yard watching the grass grow.

1 bottle Budlight beer
2 oz peach brandy
splash of strawberry lemonade
garnish with a face mask to make sure no one coughs into it

THE BOREDOM BOWL

This is for the third week of quarantine, when you’ve organized your entire closet, deleted all 700 of your spam e-mails and watched everything on Netflix. It’s boring, but delicious.

2 oz strawberry liqueur
2 oz strawberry Budlight Seltzer
splash of orange juice
garnish with a strawberry that you have removed all the seeds from with tweezers

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Cascade Apricot Ale

Classified as a wild ale, the Cascade Apricot Ale knows quite a bit about pairing sweet fruit flavors with the toasty bitterness of hops and barley. Apricot has a subtler sweetness than, say, peaches or similar fruit. They also have an earthy note that beautifully complements the signature taste of a traditional ale. The alcohol itself doesn’t lose any of its darkness or taste, nor does the flavor disappear beneath the apricot, which is practically just a hint, anyway. It’s a pairing to consider if you’re into home brewing and decide to experiment with a fruit-based beer.

Raspberry Eisbock

Is there any alcohol that isn’t made ten times better with the addition of raspberries? Eisbock is a bock beer, of course, but it’s extremely potent, incredibly full bodied, and quite malty. That combination, in particular, mixes well with the raspberries. They lighten the somewhat heavy brew, and offer a tart, fresh counter to the rich malt flavor of the Eisbock. Look for a beer like this if you love dark brews but don’t enjoy drinking anything too heavy. Fruit is a fantastic equalizer.

Sliced Nectarine IPA

Nectarines don’t get enough attention, do they? They’re tarter than peaches, which is why they work so well with IPA. The sliced nectarines cut some of the bitterness, but they also benefit from the toasty taste of so many IPAs. Home brewers, remember this flavor pairing. Believe it or not, it’s not altogether difficult to add fruity flavors to your own tasty creations.

New Glarus Strawberry Rhubarb

You’re used to strawberry rhubarb pie, right? After all, it’s a summertime staple. Now, imagine that flavor in beer. The strawberries provide plenty of fresh summertime sweetness—protip for home brewers: think about using wild strawberries, instead—while the rhubarb offers an earthy tartness that balances out the strawberries and heightens the taste of the malt. Pretty magical, huh?

As home brewing and indie companies become more popular, interesting flavor combinations will continue to abound. Have you ever thought about adding fruit to any of your brew recipes? If you’ve done it, tell us how the beer tasted.

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Sweet Sparkler, aka the Pop Rocks Cocktail

What was with the obsession with Pop Rocks? Because it was the ’90s, of course. People made a lot of questionable decisions back them, quite a few of which involved adding candy to beverages—Mentos and Coke, anyone? The ’90s fixation on Pop Rocks is no secret. Who among us hasn’t heard the urban legend involving the unfortunate teen who ingested Pop Rocks and Coke? To be honest, this is pretty tasty. It’s basically a lemonade cocktail, and the Pop Rocks are sort of delightful.

Recipe:

1 ¾ ounces of vodka
¾ ounces of lemonade
½ ounce of triple sec
1 ounce of cranberry juice
1 lime wedge
1 pack of blue Pop Rocks

Get your cocktail shaker ready, pour in the booze and juice, and shake until chilled. Moisten the rim of your glass with the lime, then press the glass into the Pop Rocks. Add ice. Pour the cocktail into the glass and enjoy.

White Russian

We can thank The Big Lebowski for this one. No, for real, let’s all take a moment to give thanks for both the Big Lebowski and the legacy of the Dude, who abides. All right, now we have to watch the movie, but first—a White Russian.

Recipe:

1 ounce of Smirnoff Cinna-Sugar Twist
½ an ounce of Kahlua
½ an ounce of half and half
Cinnamon to garnish

After filling your cocktail shaker with ice, add everything except the cinnamon and shake. Pour the mixture into a glass, over ice, and add a sprinkle of cinnamon. Now abide.

Dunkaroo Rum Shake

Oh, Dunkaroos! Who can forget? We also can’t help but notice the “rump shaker” connection in the drink name, and we approve. To say this is a dessert drink is an understatement. It is nostalgic nirvana in a glass—with booze. And ice cream. This is the drink you drink when you’re going to spend all day stalking all of your high school crushes on Facebook while you watch movies like Romeo + Juliet, Clueless, and Empire Records.

Recipe:

3 ounces of white rum
3 scoops of vanilla ice cream
½ a cup of heavy cream
½ an ounce of orange blossom water
Rainbow sprinkles aplenty
Dunkaroos vanilla frosting for garnish
Dunkaroos cookies to dip

Grab a milkshake glass, rim it in the frosting, then press it into the sprinkles. Place the rest of the ingredients in your blender and mix until everything’s just blended to it remains thick. Pour the concoction into your milkshake glass, sprinkle some more sprinkles on top, then serve with the cookies.

The SATC Cosmo

Sex and the City brought the Cosmopolitan back in vogue in the ’90s. Everyone wanted to be a Carrie or a Samantha. No one wanted to be Charlotte or Miranda because it was the ’90s and no one could really appreciate either archetype, but that, friends, is another story for another time. Today, the story is about getting lit on one of the ’90s most sophisticated pink drinks.

Recipe:

1 ½ shots of citrus vodka
½ a shot of Cointreau
¾ of a shot of cranberry juice
½ a shot of lime juice
2 dashes of orange bitters

Add the ingredients to your cocktail shaker and shake until chilled, then strain the drink into a cocktail glass. Don’t forget the orange garnish!

The Chumbawamba

You remember “Tubthumping,” right? So, this is pretty simple. You just tell the bartender that he takes a whiskey drink, he takes a vodka drink, he takes a lager drink, he takes a cider drink…

Recipe:

½ a pint of beer (or lager, in the interest of accuracy)”
1 shot of vodka
1 shot of Scotch Whisky
½ a pint of Strongbow Cider

Grab a pint glass and pour in a snake bite consisting of half beer and half cider. Top it off with the whiskey and vodka, then stir. Drink carefully; try not to piss the night away or play the trumpet.

If you could make a cocktail out of any ’90s treat, what would you use? Gushers? Squeeze-its? Ecto-Cooler?

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