Iowa Ade, Pig Lebowski, And More New Iowa State Fair Drinks
We love the delicious, artery-clogging fair food, but we can't forget about the bevys to wash it down.
When you think of fair food, you think of anything on a stick or a million things that are deep-fried. But at the Iowa State Fair, to go along with your Candied Bacon Gnocchi or your Shoot Tequila Funnel Cake, you need something to drink.
Most times, we go to good old lemonade (or a Coke, if you're me) at the fair but the Iowa State Fair has unveiled an insane list of alcoholic and non-alcoholic new beverage options that will be at the fair.
So let's dive in:
Non-Alcoholic
- Abracadabra Butterfly Lemonade (turns from blue to pink, has an essence of cucumber, "harnesses the power of superfood")
- Aguas Frescas & Horchata Fruit Drinks (fresh fruit, sweetener, and lime juice, Available in lemonade, watermelon, and pineapple. Horchata is a rice-based drink, with water, milk, and brown sugar)
- Berry American (Sprite, Blue Raspberry syrup, cherry syrup, topped with a bomb pop popsicle)
- Berry Dirty Slush (Dr. Pepper, strawberry slush, and vanilla ice cream)
- Bubble Gum Soda
- Bubbly Latte (dessert coffee with notes of cherry and vanilla)
- Bursting Boba Lemonade
- Cherry Italian Soda
- Dr. Pickle (Dr. Pepper with pickle chips in it)
- Gold Ribbon (vanilla & caramel breve)
- Green Monster (Sprite, green apple flavoring, caramel drizzle, edible monster eye)
- Hot Cheeto Float (lemon-lime soda infused with Flamin Hot Cheetos)
- Island Cherry Bomb Lemonade (lemonade, cherry, topped with spicy cherry candy)
- Lavender Lemonade
- Life's A Peach Dirty Soda (Dr. Pepper, peach syrup, vanilla syrup, cream, topped with peach ring candy)
- Mango Bliss Bubble Tea
- Paradise N' Chill (blue Powerade, watermelon, pineapple, lemonade, Sprite)
- Tilt Nitro Energy Berry (citrus energy drink with Nitrogen)
- Watermelon Creamsicle (watermelon, ice cream, lemonade)
Alcoholic
- Apple Pie Nestarita (apple pie wine, wine-based tequila, lime, orange juice, cinnamon syrup)
- Caramel Apple Beer
- Cotton Candy Bubble Trouble (sparkling wine poured over cotton candy)
- Cowgirl Cooler (cotton candy gluten-free sour & watermelon gluten-free sour)
- Dutch Letter Ale Beer
- Fair Fudge Beer
- Fish Bowl Cocktail (blue Hawaiian rum drink with candy fish)
- Flirty Fruity Bubbles (wine-based cocktail, fruity flavors, topped with crushed Fruity Pebbles)
- Funnel Cake Ruthie Beer
- Grumpy Old Manhattan Hard Seltzer Cocktail (aged bourbon, cherry)
- Hive2o PB&J Hard Honey (6% ABV hard honey, grapes, fresh roasted peanuts, filtered water)
- Iowa Ade (lemonade, orange juice, grenadine, blue curacao, simple syrup)
- Lavender Lemontini (Meyer lemon, lavender, wine-based vodka)
- Magical Mimosa (prosecco, orange juice, gold edible glitter)
- Mini Donut Dunkel Beer
- Naughty Shirley (like an alcoholic Shirley Temple)
- Pig Lebowski Beer
- Porky's Bloody Buffet (a Bloody Mary buffet, featuring mini tacos, mini corndogs, waffle fries, pick spear, green olives, meat stick, cubed cheese, and bacon)
- Rainbow Sherbet Sour Beer
- Red, White, And Blooze (wine-based vodka, grenadine, lemonade, blue raspberry)
- Spiked Lemonade
- Tantalizing Tulip
Some of the non-alcoholic drinks can be made boozy and vice versa. You can get more details on the drinks on Iowa State Fair's website.
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