Post #297068 by LavaLounger on Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:39 AM

I need some tips. Oh, not the money kind of tips, nice as chumpchange is. I need help with a flaming drink (other than have a fire extinguisher handy).

I've been working on a "signature" drink for our bar.....and it's been one failure after another. I'm okay with the drink part, it's the flame part that's failing.

What I'm trying to achieve is to have a flaming drink and I'd like the flames to "toast" or warm a couple pieces of pinapple that have been soaked in rum and brown sugar. The idea is to get a little "candy" on the very edges of the pineapple from the little flames. But I haven't been able to get the 151 to light in the frozen drink at all. It seems to sink into the frosty stuff and won't light.

I started out with heavy duty, very thick stemmed ice cream parfait glasses from restaurant supply. I've gotten experimental 151 rum floating flame in them on top of water for as much as 1 whole minute without a crack.....oh I know it gets too hot to drink out of, but at least I won't worry about glass exploding in someone's face. I used glass paints to fix them up with a little lava theme (after you paint your design, you bake the glass in the oven and it's permanent, you can even run it through the dishwasher without the paint coming off).

I read through the stuff that "flaming drink" brought up at TC, so I want to try the lime shell idea but can't figure out how to prop up the couple pieces of pineapple over the flame......it'd be real fun if I could figure out how to put it on a little mini-spit for 30 seconds of flaming fun, but I'd settle for most anything at this point.

Here's what I have so far (the no-name LavaLounger drink):

One whole plastic jar of Dole pineapple chunks with juice (about 2-1/2 cups. I don't used canned, it doesn't taste as good as it has a metallic-tin taste to me)
Take out about 6 pineapple sections and soak in 151rum and as much brown sugar that will dissolve in the rum)
1/2 cup spiced rum
1/2 cup malibu pineapple rum
1/2 cup Rompope (cream liquor)
1/2 cup Cruzan Rum Cream
151 rum to float
Grenadine-Of-Choice (to sink if you use clear glassware, I use regular grenadine)
About 4 cups of ice cubes.

I have a margarita machine, and boy, there just isn't anything better on the entire planet to make frozen drinks with, impressive to guests too, but if you don't want to pony-up for one of them ($300), use your blender with a good ice blade and you might have to cut the receipe in half. Makes enough for about 4-12oz tiki mugs.

Make it: Dump the jar of pineapple into the blender with the spiced rum, pineapple rum, Rompope and rum cream and blend it all until smooth (first blending smooths out pineapple chunks), then add the ice and blend again until frosty. Depending on your tiki mug sizes depends on how many drinks you get out of it. I use clear hurricane glasses sometiems and sink grenadine on the bottom, gives it sort of a "sunset" look....or lava look.

Anyway, this is the drink I want to top with flames and the "grilled" pineapple for the fancy-schmancy signature drink at my tiki bar. Any ideas for "showy-ness" anyone?? Total excessive overkill is good too. I just love garnishes tht look like a bizarre tiki extravaganza! Even if they hate the drink, they'll rememeber the presentation.

Thanks,
LavaLounger