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Spirit-forward · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 1/5

Blue Blazes

Blue Blazes is hot water, sugar, and Scotch set alight and poured back and forth blazing.

scotch · flaming · sweet · after-dinner

Served in Ale mug.

Variants (1)

The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book by Albert Stevens Crockett (1935, p.89)

1 jiggerScotch whisky — Scotchbase
1 lumpsugar base
0.5 jiggerwater — hot waterdilution
  1. Dissolve the sugar, add Scotch, ignite, and pour back and forth while blazing.

See also: Hot-with Flames