Rum

Smoking Eruption

Name: Smoking Eruption
Yield: 2 servings

Glass: Volcano Bowl

A four-rum volcano-bowl pour from the Kahiki Supper Club, with a flaming lime shell and dry-ice fog.

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Ingredients

fresh white grapefruit juice (4 oz)
fresh lime juice (1.5 oz)
maple syrup (0.75 oz)
simple syrup (0.5 oz)
Angostura bitters (4 dash)
light Puerto Rican rum (1 oz)
gold Cuban-style rum (1 oz)
dark Jamaican rum (1.5 oz)
aged Demerara rum (2 oz)
crushed ice (1 cup)
151-proof Demerara rum (0.5 oz)
dry ice (1 cube)

Smoking Eruption is documented as a Kahiki Supper Club menu cocktail (Columbus, Ohio; venue opened February 1961) per Kirsten's The Book of Tiki (2000) and Wikipedia.¹^,² No single canonical published Kahiki spec is publicly archived, so this reconstruction is built in the theatrical-bowl idiom: a grapefruit-lime-maple sour stretched over four rums (Demerara for body, Jamaican for funk, light Puerto Rican for length, gold Cuban-style for sweetness), poured into a volcano bowl, with a flaming 151-Demerara lime shell and dry-ice fog as the namesake "smoking eruption."³

Brand recommendations. Best: El Dorado 12 or Hamilton 86 for the aged Demerara; Smith & Cross or Hamilton Pot Still Black for the dark Jamaican; Don Q Cristal or Caña Brava for the light Puerto Rican; Plantation 3 Stars for the gold Cuban-style; Hamilton 151 or Lemon Hart 151 for the flaming float; pure Grade A maple syrup. Economical: El Dorado 8 for the Demerara; Coruba or Myers's Original Dark for the Jamaican; Bacardi Superior for the light; Bacardi 8 for the gold; Cruzan 151 for the float.

Instructions

In a shaker combine fresh white grapefruit juice, fresh lime juice, maple syrup, simple syrup, Angostura bitters, light Puerto Rican rum, gold Cuban-style rum, dark Jamaican rum, and aged Demerara rum.
Add crushed ice and shake hard for .
Pour unstrained into a volcano bowl packed with additional crushed ice; nest a small dry-ice chamber or shot glass at the center.
Float a halved lime shell holding 151-proof Demerara rum over the bowl's central well; ignite at service.
Add a small piece of food-grade dry ice to the side well and pour hot water over it for the "smoking" effect.
Garnish with two long straws and serve to two.

Sources

Kirsten, The Book of Tiki (2000), Kahiki Supper Club entry, identifies Smoking Eruption as a Kahiki menu cocktail. ↩
"Kahiki Supper Club." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahiki_Supper_Club (accessed 2026-05-03), corroborates Smoking Eruption as a Kahiki menu cocktail (Columbus, Ohio; opened February 1961). ↩
Hurricane Hayward, Atomic Grog cocktail recipe index. https://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/cocktail-recipes-a-z/ (accessed 2026-05-03), the closest-cited public reconstruction in the Atomic Grog / Berry idiom; this file's spec is built in that idiom rather than transcribed from a primary source, since no single canonical Smoking Eruption spec is preserved in published Berry canon. ↩