10 Drink Recipes You Can Light on Fire (2024)

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How do you make a flammable drink? ›

Sugar Cubes

If you douse a sugar cube in lemon oil, it will be highly flammable and create a delicious taste in the drink. The flame will caramelise the sugar to create a sweet vanilla and somewhat smokey flavour in your drink.

While blowing out flaming shots isn't recommended, anything with high water content should work just fine. That could be water, or even a beer or mixed drink. Depending on your shot, pour liquid over the flames, or drop the shot into your water or beer. Drink your shot in one gulp.

This is the standard ABV for most full-proof spirits, like gin, vodka, whiskey, and tequila. When adding other ingredients to your coffee co*cktail, be mindful of their ABV. Kahlua, for instance, is a liqueur, not a liquor, and has a 20% ABV (which won't ignite).

Café Brulot Diabolique Recipe

Put the cinnamon, cloves, lemon peel, sugar and brandy in a fireproof bowl and heat on open flame. When the brandy is hot, but not boiling, bring the bowl to the table and ignite with match. Use a ladle to stir and pour the liquid around the bowl for 2 minutes.

However, it can only be lit on fire when a triple sec that's high in alcohol content is used – like Cointreau, or its topped with a overproof alcohol like Bacardi 151. Even then, the flaming effect can still be difficult to achieve.

Any alcohol listed above 100 proof – 50 percent ABV – is straight up flammable and would therefore not hinder the ability of gunpowder to fire.

firewater (countable and uncountable, plural firewaters) (informal) High-proof alcohol, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).

How to make: Pour sherry into chilled glass, swirl to coat inside and discard excess. Using a match or lighter, express and ignite the oils from the orange peel so the burnt oil coats the inside of the sherry-coated glass. SHAKE the vodka with ice and fine strain into the coated glass.

Soak a sugar cube with 151-proof rum and add it to the lime shell. Place the shell on pebble ice or crushed ice for stability, and top with another splash of high-proof rum. Light with a long match then sprinkle ground cinnamon over the flame for dramatic sparks.

Prepare your co*cktail in a shaker or mixing glass. Wet your co*cktail glass. Light the wood chips on a heat-safe board, and place the empty co*cktail glass upside-down over the chips to absorb the flavor. Pour the co*cktail into the smoked glass—it's ready to drink.

Is fire water vodka? ›

More information about Rammstein Fire Water

It is purified in a handed-down, top-secret filtration process and finished with water specially prepared for vodka production to create a product of exceptional purity and mildness. The bottles are bottled by hand in small batches in Berlin, carefully inspected and packaged.

Well, we had already taken the first precaution when we started selling our 151 rum bottles with a metal flame protector built into the lid; yes, all bottles of 151 proof alcohol (75.5 %ABV) are well known for their flammable qualities. We're sure you can guess how that situation escalated…

In terms of flammability, one of the most flammable common liquids at room temperature is diethyl ether, with a flash point of -45 degrees Celsius. It is so flammable that it can ignite from static electricity or even a hot surface.

The Blue Blazer (1850s–1890s)

This legendary early flaming co*cktail calls for a wine glass of whiskey mixed with boiling water and sweetened with a teaspoon of sugar. It's set aflame and poured between two mugs. The dramatic arc of the blue flame is lengthened with each pour.

Cognac, rum, or other flavorful liquors that are about 40% alcohol (80 USA proof) are considered ideal for flambé. Wines and beers have too little alcohol and will not flambé. High-alcohol liquors, such as Bacardi 151 or Everclear, are highly flammable and considered too dangerous by professional cooks.

Molotov co*cktail, a crude bomb, typically consisting of a bottle filled with a flammable liquid and a wick that is ignited before throwing. It is named for Vyacheslav Molotov, the foreign minister of the Soviet Union during and after World War II, though Molotov was not its inventor.