Flaming Doctor Pepper
Flaming Doctor Pepper
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Standard drinkware |
A pub glass and a shot glass.
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Commonly used ingredients |
- 1 pint (~13 parts) beer
- 3 parts Amaretto
- 1 part high-proof liquor
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Preparation |
Layer the two spirits in the shot glass, with the high-proof liquor on top. Light the shot and allow it to burn; then extinguish it by dropping it into the beer glass. Drink immediately. |
A Flaming Doctor Pepper is a flaming cocktail said to taste like the soft drink Dr Pepper, although Dr Pepper is not one of its ingredients. It is usually made by filling a shot glass with 3 parts Amaretto and 1 part high-proof liquor, such as Everclear or Bacardi 151.[1] The two liquors are not mixed; the high-proof alcohol is layered on top of the Amaretto. The shot is then set on fire and dropped into a glass half-filled with beer. The flames are extinguished by the beer, and the cocktail should then be drunk quickly.
Origin
- The earliest claim to origination of this drink is the Ptarmigan Club in Bryan, Texas, in the 1960s.
Names
Since Dr Pepper (without a period) is a trademark of a soft drink company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, this cocktail has been marketed under several names to avoid trademark infringement. “Flaming Dr. Pepper” (with a period) and “Flaming Dr. Peppar” (a misspelling of “Pepper”) appear most often in Internet search results.
In popular culture
- Author Tucker Max, known for his alcohol-fueled adventures, mentions the drink in the story “The Austin Road Trip” in his book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. After seeing a round of Flaming Doctor Peppers prepared in a bar and drinking one, Max said, “I’ll be damned if it didn’t taste exactly like Dr Pepper... It was the coolest thing involving alcohol I had ever seen.”[2]
- In The Simpsons episode Flaming Moe's, Homer invented a similar drink called a Flaming Homer which Moe steals from him for his bar. Homer later reveals that the secret ingredient is Krusty's children cough syrup which gave it away to others.
- In the film "Hot Rod," Jonathan (played by Will Arnett) orders a round of Flaming Dr. Peppers for himself and the other characters.
- American stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress performs a comedy routine about the drink on his 2010 album My Name Is Hannibal.
Potential danger
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine reported a case in 1997 in which a 14-year-old boy from Danville, Virginia, spilled the contents of the shot glass onto his face while dropping the shot glass into the beer, resulting in “multiple separate sites of superficial partial-thickness burns” about his face and neck. As this could happen with practically any flaming cocktail, it has nothing to do with this specific drink and should be considered a universal potential danger.[3]
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