{"id":36693,"date":"2021-08-06T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=36693"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:37:48","slug":"football-friday-tailgate-recipe-wisconsin-beer-and-brats-lombardi-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2021\/08\/06\/football-friday-tailgate-recipe-wisconsin-beer-and-brats-lombardi-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Friday Tailgate Recipe: Wisconsin Beer and Brats Lombardi Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Football Friday we are now 22 days away from the kickoff of the 2021 college football season. It&#8217;s the perfect time to start collecting some tried and true tailgate recipes.\u00a0 It is week FIVE of the Football Friday Tailgate Recipe. Did you save week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2021\/07\/30\/football-friday-tailgate-recipe-alabama-crackers\/\" target=\"_self\">Alabama Crackers recipe<\/a>?\u00a0 This week&#8217;s recipe was sent to me by John Lombardi via Twitter. Yes, he is related to <em>THAT<\/em> Lombardi.<\/p>\n<h3>Lombardi Brewing Co.<\/h3>\n<p>John Lombardi is the grandson of legendary football coach Vince Lombardi. His maternal grandfather was a beer distributor. John has followed in both of his grandfather&#8217;s footsteps.\u00a0 He was a football graduate assistant at Vanderbilt and now he is brewing beer.\u00a0 John started the <a href=\"https:\/\/lombardibrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lombardi Brewing Co.<\/a> in 2017.\u00a0 Before the pandemic hit he was in the process of finding a new brewing partner.\u00a0 So, needless to say, he has been on hiatus for a little over a year.\u00a0 But, never fear Lombardi Brewing should have their Lombardi Lager and Golden Ale in the hands of beer fans again THIS MONTH.\u00a0 In fact, they have a new brewing partner and they are going to self-distribute as they have some bigger plans in the works. Lombardi is currently looking for the perfect spot to open a taproom in Green Bay.\u00a0 The taproom would ultimately feature their best-selling beers as well as any seasonal flavors John and his partners can dream up.<\/p>\n<h2>Football Friday Tailgate Recipe: Wisconsin Beer and Brats Lombardi Style<\/h2>\n<h3>The Recipe:<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Method: indirect grilling<\/p>\n<p>Serves 4 to 8<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Here is what you will need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">8 bratwursts<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">2 cans of beer<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">1 stick of butter<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">1 onion, cut into thick slices &#8211; skewered and grilled<\/li>\n<li>buns<\/li>\n<li>condiments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">1. Set up your grill for indirect grilling and preheat to medium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">2. Arrange the bratwursts on the non-heated side.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Cook the sausages until cooked through, 30 to 40 minutes. Grill the onions at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">3. Once the onions are blackened a bit, combine the beer, butter, and grilled onion slices in a large grill-proof pan large enough to accommodate all the brats (I like to use a disposable aluminum pan). Place over the heat. When the brats are cooked through (and the butter has melted), transfer them to the beer bath on the grill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">4. Keep the brats simmering in the beer bath as long as you like,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The longer the brats simmer, the better they get.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Try and keep them submerged.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Add beer if needed.\u00a0 Do not be afraid to add different beers to enhance the flavor of the brats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Try different types and brands of beer to vary the flavor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Variation from John:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I have also cooked the brats and onions before leaving for the game and dumped the brats, onions, butter, and beer into a turkey fryer and let them simmer on low all day long.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hopefully, there might be a few left for post-game. Pro-Tip if you happen to have any left the morning after a game chop up brats and onions and toss them in some eggs for the perfect breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;9354&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>On The Menu<\/h3>\n<p>For week six we are doing some tailgate cocktails.\u00a0 You can never have too many adult beverages at a tailgate.<\/p>\n<p>Post Script: Also, if you know of the perfect spot for the new Lombardi Brewing Taproom please reach out to John on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lombardibrewing.com\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lombardi Brewing Company website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Football Friday we are now 22 days away from the kickoff of the 2021 college football season. It&#8217;s the perfect time to start collecting some tried and true tailgate recipes.\u00a0 It is week FIVE of the Football Friday Tailgate Recipe. Did you save week&#8217;s Alabama Crackers recipe?\u00a0 This week&#8217;s recipe was sent to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":37368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35689,35691,2056],"tags":[7451,4817,4780,7983,7608,3342,20,7846,3116],"class_list":["post-36693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-culture","category-recipes","category-top-25","tag-2021-college-football-season","tag-acc-football","tag-big-12-football","tag-big-ten-football","tag-fcs-football","tag-pac-12-football","tag-sec","tag-tailgate-recipes","tag-vince-lombardi"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80402,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693\/revisions\/80402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}