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Rum

Volcano Bowl

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Volcano Bowl

A four-person sharing bowl from The Luau with a flaming 151 reservoir and three-rum tropical base.

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Ingredients

  • fresh grapefruit juice (6 oz)
  • fresh lime juice (2 oz)
  • simple syrup (0.5 oz)
  • maple syrup (0.75 oz)
  • gold Puerto Rican rum (1 oz)
  • gold Jamaican rum (2 oz)
  • Demerara rum (3 oz)
  • crushed ice
  • 151 proof Demerara rum (1 oz)

Instructions

  1. In a shaker or large mixing tin, combine fresh grapefruit juice, fresh lime juice, simple syrup, maple syrup, gold Puerto Rican rum, gold Jamaican rum, and Demerara rum. Shake with ice.
  2. Strain into a volcano bowl or large punch bowl filled with crushed ice. Float the 151 proof Demerara rum in the bowl's central reservoir (or in a halved lime shell floated atop the ice) and ignite at service.
  3. Serve with long straws for sharing.

Sources

  1. Berry, Beachbum Berry Remixed (2010), Volcano Bowl entry, credits Stephen Crane (1953, The Luau, Beverly Hills) and documents the central-reservoir flaming-151 service in the ceramic volcano bowl. ↩
  2. "Drink of the Week: Volcano Bowl." Summit Sips. https://summitsips.com/2011/12/drink-of-the-week-volcano-bowl/ (accessed 2026-05-03), published reconstruction of Berry's Remixed spec; the source for this file's three-rum bill and grapefruit/lime/maple ratios. ↩