Slurp up cinema: recreating drinks from the silver screen

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Welcome to a fantabulous festive edition of our series ‘Gulp Fiction’ where we show you how to recreate drinks from cinema so you can slurp along with your favourite characters. We encourage you to rewatch the Chrimbo classics with a (sometimes flaming) drink in hand and join us as we sip on cinema this Christmas. 

In this festive spectacle, we’re soaking up ultimate holiday classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Here at Bite Club, we serve all kinds of drinks, not just hard drinks for men who want to get drunk fast, so we're making angelic wishes come true by serving a FLAMING RUM PUNCH. Yes, we're gonna be showing off to our friends and family and setting fire to their festive tipple.

Burning alcohol produces a blue flame, think nana's Christmas pudding you always loathe to eat. If you want to make the flames yellow and snap, crackle and pop, simply sprinkle a little cinnamon from a height and you will get the results you saw in our video.

In case setting hearts alight this Christmas wasn't enough, we're taking showmanship to the next level by using this homemade pineapple juice as a mixer. Casual. (Don't tell anyone it's actually super duper easy... that can be our little secret).

If you haven’t watched the episode yet, make sure to check it out and give us some love, so we can keep doing what we're doing. Thanks, you're an ANGEL ✨✨

Cheers to a Merry Christmas 🥂

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Features (verbally) at 1 hours, 47 minutes and 28 seconds of It's A Wonderful Life

INGREDIENTS (serves 6)

• 150ml orange juice

• 150ml pineapple juice 

• 50ml lime juice 

• 25ml of grenadine 

• 25ml simple syrup (adjust to taste)

• Dash of bitters 

• 200ml spiced rum

TO SERVE

• Clove studded orange slices or whole kumquats

• Lime slices

• Maraschino cherries 

• Ice

METHOD

In a large punch bowl, mix the orange, pineapple and lime juices together (nb: freshly squeezed orange and lime juice is preferable)

Add a couple of dashes of bitters.  

Add the grenadine and half the simple syrup, and mix to incorporate. Taste, and if required, add additional simple syrup to taste (nb: freshly squeezed juice will likely be more tart and require the full measure of syrup)

Garnish with clove studded sliced oranges or kumquats, lime slices and maraschino cherries. 

THE FLAMING RUM

!! Do not add the rum until serving, it will only set alight if it is sitting atop the punch, and not fully mixed in !!

Very slowly pour the rum into the punch bowl, over the back of a spoon, so it settles in a layer on top of the punch.

Light, using a long match or blow torch. The flames will be blue, to make them yellow and more visible, from a height, sprinkle a little ground cinnamon over the flames.

TO SERVE

Serve over ice with kumquats/citrus slices and maraschino cherries 

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INGREDIENTS (makes 750ml)

• 1 whole pineapple

• 150ml water

• 1-3 tbsp sugar (to taste) 

•  Lemon juice (to taste) 

METHOD

Peel, core and cube the pineapple into 2 inch chunks.

To a blender, add the pineapple, water, one tablespoon of the sugar, and a few drops of lemon juice.

Blend until smooth.

Strain the juice through a cheesecloth to remove the pulp.

Taste, and add additional sugar/lemon to taste. (nb: the amount you require will vary according to how sweet/tart your fruit is)

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