Flaming Dr. Pepper

Everydaydrinkers.com Common Man Cocktails Male: Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I’m your host Derrick Schommer. And today, we’re going to do something that’s just a little bit crazy. What did you call it? Female: Barbaric. Male: Barbaric, this is barbaric. This is a recipe submitted by John. It is kind of little crazy. Now, the only reason I think I qualify this as a cocktail is because I’ve seen it done so many times at bars. This is called the Flaming Dr. Pepper and it's really not that complex. You could do it at home if you’ve got fire, you’ve got 151, a beer and some decent Amaretto or whatever Amaretto you have. And people will always say, we want more Amaretto episodes. So we’re going to more Amaretto episodes right here starting now. What we’re going to do is three quarters of an ounce or three quarters full really—I don’t want that. Three quarters full shot of the Amaretto, I don’t know where to put this. Now the other trick, we’re going to float some 151 on top of it because that’s part of the special effects so we’re—who did transformers 2? What was the name of that guy? Female: Michael Creighton. Male: Michael Creighton? I think first off, Creighton is wrong. Creighton did Jurassic Park, alright. Michael Bay. Female: Sure. Male: Whoever does all the explosions so we’re pretty much pulling one of those. He really loses his—yeah it loses some of his potency when you get it all wrong. And the beer I’m using, it calls for a light beer. I don’t really drink a lot of light beer. I drink a lot of German beers and darker beers—I’m an everyday drinker, I drink it all. So what I’m going to be using and this would probably insult some people because this is a Warsteiner. It's a German beer pilsner on our—I think I used this in the drinking podcast in our pilsner episode a couple—like last month. It’s almost like using $130 bottle of liquor in a cocktail. It's overkill but I like it. I’m going to like something and it’s kind of light, look at that. See, it’s light. I even got my German mug for this. Now, I’m going to have a problem with the form. But I still have to light this on fire. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to light this on fire, drop it into the beer and it’s going to be a flaming Dr. Pepper. Sure it is. Let’s see how it goes. Okay, special effect is not as impressive when you can’t see them but trust me, there’s fire there. We’re going to drop it in. This is usually where messes are formed. Ready for the mess? There you go. You’ve got a mess right there but it’s in there. Do you see it floating in there, ain’t that cool? And then you drink. Definitely, it is working for me. You’re getting a little Dr. Pepper ask thing going on. Now, I don’t exactly—I’m in a big mess. I don’t exactly understand why. I really don’t think it has anything to do with 151. And by the way, you’re supposed to chug this whole thing. I’ve got a long night ahead of me. I can’t be chugging beers but I mean, you can still see inside the Amaretto floating in there and it’s kind of—it comes out of the top. I think the Amaretto with the beer gives you that impression of Dr. Pepper. It's not pepperminty, but it gives you like that taste of Dr. Pepper and— Female: Dr. Pepper is not pepperminty? Male: It's not peppermint. What is that flavor of Dr. Pepper? Female: Cherry. Male: It's not just cherry though because you can’t reproduce it with a cherry coke. Cherry coke does not taste like Dr. Pepper. Female: Yeah. Male: I don’t what. It's the secret sauce of Dr. Pepper. Maybe that’s Amaretto. I think it's the Amaretto playing on the beer. But in either case, that’s your flaming Dr. Pepper. Use whatever beer you have. You’ll probably see this at bars I mean—I made a huge mess. There’s your Flaming Dr. Pepper and I’m your host Derrick Schommer. We’re teaching you how to drink.