Silly Little Bar Tricks

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Bar Trick 1)

Lighting a glass with a little bit of Sambuca in it on fire, putting your hand over it to extinguish the flame, and when the flame goes out, the decrease in air temp creates a strong suction on your hand, strong enough that you can shake your hand all around without the glass coming off. Great for freaking people out.

Bar Trick 2)

Take a brandy snifter and an olive and tell the customer to get the olive into the snifter without touching, smashing, or using any outside force except the snifter to get the olive into said snifter.
Solution: The trick is done by putting the snifter over the olive and by moving the glass in a circular motion, centrifugal /centripetal force pulls the olive up inside the glass and with a quick flip of the wrist...its in there.

Bar Trick 3)

One bar trick involves fours matches, a lighter, a saucer, a lemon or lime wedge, and a rocks glass. Put a little water in the saucer, enough to be deep but not to the edges of the dish. Inform your friends that you can put all the water in the glass without touching the saucer and only using the items mentioned above.
Solution: Stick the four matches into the sides of the lemon with the match sticks pointing up. Put the lemon, peel down, on the plate. Light the matches. Place the rocks glass over the lemon. The lack of oxygen will extinguish the flames and will suck all the water off the plate up into the glass. It's kind of like the flaming Sambuca trick but with more audience participation.

Bar Trick 4)

Take 2 small shot glasses and fill one with Kalhua and the other with milk. Ask a guest to put the contents of one glass into the other and vice versa without pouring any out ( or putting one in their mouth), they may however use their drivers license.
Solution: Place the license over the top of the kahlua and turn upside down and on the milk without spilling and then remove slightly to allow the milk to gradually fill the kahlua glass.
Submitted by: Greg R. (A bartender from Jack Astor's Bar in Dallas, Texas)

Bar Trick 5)

Take an empty rum bottle and heat it up under hot water. take a straw and spear it about 3/4 of the way from the bottom. put the straw in the bottle and tell the guest to get the straw out the bottle without touching the straw, the bottle, or the sword.
Solution: drop a match in the bottle. MAKE SURE NOT TO BE ABOVE THE BOTTLE WHEN YOU DO THIS!! the alcohol left in the bottle will force the straw out.
Submitted by: Tom W. - barman@indy.net

Bar Trick 6)

Fill three shot glasses with scotch or rye or whatever, and three beer glasses with beer. Bet someone you can drink the three beer glasses before they drink the three liquor glasses. The only stipulation is that you cannot touch the other person's glass.
Solution: Drink one glass of beer quickly and invert your glass over one of the full liquor glasses. Take your time drinking your beer as your pigeon cannot touch your glass to get at his/hers.
Submitted by: Hugh - humac@sympatico.ca

Bar Trick 7)

Take a match from a book of cardboard matches. Print H (heads) on one side and T (tails) on the other. Tell your friend that you will toss the match in the air and if it lands either heads or tails you will buy him a drink. However, should it land on its side, he must buy you a drink.
Solution: Just before you toss the match in the air, bend it. It will always land on it's side.
Submitted by: Hugh humac@sympatico.ca

Bar Trick 8)

Bet someone that they can't balance a full pint of beer on their two thumbs. If they agree tell them to place their thumbs flat on the table and balance the pint.
Solution: You lost the bet but your friend is stuck with a pint on their hands and can't free their hands without spilling the pint.

Bar Trick 9)

This trick is for people who like funneling beers. Let a friend drink half of his/her beer, then bet him/her that you can chug your FULL beer before he/she can finish hers.
Solution: Take the bendy straw and place it into the bottle with the bent part out of the bottle. The other 2/3rds of the straw should be in the bottle. Chug beer. Air escapes through the straw allowing very quick consumption. Submitted by: Stephen (smellin@vermontel.com)