Nebraska Tailgating & Beer Brats Recipe {College Football Saturday Tailgate Link Party}

Time for another col­lege foot­ball game day! Did your team win last week? My Huskers sadly did not. It was not pretty at all. And, we have a bye week  today. So, since there’s no Husker foot­ball on the tv, I’m putting up a lit­tle Husker-related post on the blog today. It’s actu­ally a fun post that I did last week on Kuzak’s Closet. She had such a super fun tail­gate week last week that I was thrilled to par­tic­i­pate in.

Many peo­ple are sur­prised to find out that I’m such a big Col­lege Foot­ball fan. So, here’s a bit of the story: I actu­ally attended the Uni­ver­sity of Nebraska as an out-of-state stu­dent and met my hus­band there. We met as babies our fresh­man year.   Through­out col­lege, I never missed a home foot­ball game, but my expe­ri­ence is dif­fer­ent than most as I was a mem­ber of the Corn­husker March­ing Band all 4 years of college!

I marched clar­inet my fresh­man year and then was a mem­ber of the Nebraska Drum­line the rest of the time (as part of the pit per­cus­sion sec­tion). And, it was soooooo fun! I was there when the foot­ball team was really good. It wasn’t quite the glory days of the 90’s when Nebraska won 3 National Cham­pi­onships, but, we did go to a bowl game every year, the likes of the Fiesta Bowl and the “grandaddy of ‘em all”, the Rose Bowl. March­ing in the Rose Bowl parade and per­form­ing at the National Cham­pi­onship game (even though we lost) is some­thing I’ll never forget!

Since col­lege, we’ve been back for a game almost every year. And, one of those years, I did the alumni band game where the Uni­ver­sity wel­comes back for­mer band mem­bers to not only enjoy the game, but per­form! So fun! Given that I was in the band, I didn’t get to expe­ri­ence pregame tail­gat­ing. Usu­ally pregame fes­tiv­i­ties are all about the band for me, but last year we got in to the spe­cial tail­gate area. Talk about great fun and good food! One fam­ily favorite recipe that screams foot­ball tail­gat­ing are “Beer Brats”. They’re easy to make ans super tasty!!!

Grilled Beer Brats

Ingre­di­ents:

• Brats (for a big grilling cook-out we usu­ally do a pack­age of 10–12 brats)
• Beer of your choice (we did two cans for 12 brats)
• Onion (1/2 to one whole large onion cut into approx. 1/4″ slices, depend­ing on how much onion fla­vor you like)
• Water (enough to cover the brats in the pot after the beer is added. For us, that was about 3 to 4 cups)

Direc­tions:

- Place brats in a large pot. Add onions & beer. Then add enough water to just cover the brats.

- Bring to a boil. Then, sim­mer for 15–20 minutes–basically until brats start chang­ing color, but aren’t quite fully cooked. Then, trans­fer to the grill.

- Grill over medium heat for 3–5 min­utes per side, or until browned to perfection!

Now it’s your turn!!!

 Col­lege Foot­ball Sat­ur­day Tail­gate Link Party

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