Whether your favorite part of the Oscars is debating what the Best Picture of the year was, watching all the gorgeous people walk the red carpet, drooling over George Clooney, or anxiously anticipating what this year’s returning host Billy Crystal is going to take jabs at in his opening…I think we can all agree that  nothing beats a great Oscars party.   It is all about the celebration and we (not so obviously) are all about the cocktails!!   So if you are having an Oscars party this weekend, we have two great tips to share.

First, make your party official with the official cocktail that will be served as the Exclusive Champagne Cocktail at the Governors Ball.  Here is the recipe for the Moet Red Carpet Glamour.  Enjoy!

Of course, you start with Moet champagne before adding more magic to the mix. Here’s how it’s made:

Recipe and directions:

Fill a chilled Champagne Flute half way with ice.

Stir 1 ounce of Fresh Squeezed Sour Mix and 1 ounce of Hum Botanical Spirit with fresh ice. Strain into the Flute to fill 1/2 way and top with Moet & Chandon Imperial Brut Reserve.

Garnish with a Single Rose Petal.

Continually refresh as you wish with Moet & Chandon Imperial as the Champagne will float on top of the HUM Sour, but its effervescence will deliver HUM’s heady cardamom & Kaffir lime notes.

Fresh Squeezed Sour Mix Preparation:

Make a syrup with 1.5 cups sugar and 1 cup hot water. Stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Add 1 cup fresh lime juice and 1 cup fresh lemon juice and refrigerate. May be prepared the night before. Syrup may be substituted with 1 pint agave nectar.

Now that you have a great cocktail ready, how about a drinking game.  I don’t know about you, but I’ll drink to that.   So here is a great drinking game to help you drink your way through the Oscars.

Ground rules
First, pick your poison. Our suggestions: Champagne forThe Artist; Mai Tais for The Descendants; SoCo for The Help; Hemingway daiquiris for Midnight in Paris; cans of MGD for Moneyball; bourbon for Tree of Life; and an old cask of brandy for War Horse. (If Extremely Loud wins anything,punish yourself with cough syrup.)

Grumpy Old Man
1 drink if Billy Crystal launches into one of his endless Best Picture montages (and 2 more drinks if Whoopi or Steve Martin join in).

Superbad or Seventh Seal?
1 bitter, bitter drink if Jonah Hill wins an Oscar over anyone but Max von Sydow, which we can’t believe we’re actually saying.

Race Relations, Solved (Again)
1 drink if The Help wins another victory for white women who help black people in movies (see: The Blind Side,Crash).

It’s the Pitts
1 drink if any Brad Pitt film wins anything, and two if he’s sporting a billygoat beard.

The Brokeback Mountain Award
1 drink if a straight actor wins for playing a gay character (Glenn Close, Christopher Plummer, Janet McTeer).

Missing Malick
1 drink if elusive Tree of Life director Terrence Malick even shows up.

A Merciful Nightcap
5 more drinks to knock yourself out if the show isn’t over by midnight.*
*We don’t recommend this.

However you celebrate, celebrate responsibly!

-ID2T crew