Set the New Year on Fire

🔥Release your inner dragon and set the New Year on Fire with this special Chinese New Year-inspired cocktail! 🐉 \nThis unique flaming cocktail is sure to light up your celebrations as you go forward with luck and prosperity.

Ingredients

• 6 mint leaves.
• 3/4 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed.
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup.
• 2 ounces scotch.
• 1/2 ounce Campari.
• Garnish: flaming lime shell.

Instructions

• Add the mint leaves, lime juice and simple syrup into a Collins glass and press the leaves gently with a muddler.
• Add the scotch and fill the glass with crushed ice.
• Float Campari on top and fill with more crushed ice.
• Garnish with a flaming lime shell.
• Flaming lime shell: Squeeze the juice from half a lime, reserving the juice for another use. Place the lime shell atop the prepared cocktail and place 1 sugar cube inside. Douse the sugar cube with 151-proof rum and carefully light on fire. Extinguish before drinking.