
Basketball
The mix of vapor and liquid alcohol really gives you an amazing shock
- Flavor
- No flavor description available
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Glassware
- Brandy glass
Ingredients
3 ingredients
Method
- 01
Pour Cointreau, Cognac, and Sambuca into a brandy glass.
- 02
Slowly heat the glass with a lighter, maintaining a steady heat while rotating the rounded bottom of the brandy glass.
- 03
As the liquid warms, it will release alcohol vapor.
- 04
Lick your palm, then light the alcohol in the glass, and quickly cover the rim of the glass with your licked palm.
- 05
After covering the glass, the flame will slowly burn off all the oxygen, creating a vacuum inside the glass.
- 06
Now invert the glass and make a basketball shooting motion.
- 07
The glass will stick firmly to your palm! Slide the glass along the rim, starting from the area near your thumb and index finger.
- 08
Smell the vapor in the glass, then drink it in one go.
Know your pour
- What does it taste like?
- No flavor description available
- Which glass should I use?
- Brandy glass
- Is it beginner-friendly?
- Advanced