I'm more of a beer guy than a rum punch guy, but it looks to me like the 151's in there to jack up the alcohol content. If that's not a major concern, I'm pretty sure you could feel free to switch it out for regular rum.

Grenadine? It's not what it used to be. After reading that entry, I'd be tempted to use Pom instead.

Bacardi 151 is a 75% ethanol solution, and its vapors have a very low flash point (like 55.4 °F, fer chrissake!). So, yeah, anywhere outside of a walk-in freezer, keep away from open flame.

Diluting ethanol in water, significantly, as this receipt, and most other mixed drink concoctions do, lowers its vapor pressure considerably, making it safer to handle. Otherwise, even more smokers in bars would combust spontaneously than actually do.

Thanks guys.

I bought the Rose brand that is mentioned in the Wiki entry. It's just high-fructose corn syrup and some other crap. Next time I'll use Pom. I just made a batch of the punch. I'm sure it will go over well enough.

Grenadine gives a nice fruit-punch flavor to the, um, fruit punch. Tastes kinda like red Kool Ade. It's very sweet, and, yes, does add color. Pom would be great, but you'd need to use more, since it's not as sweet.

151 is really there just to add strength. The alcohol in it is just the same as the alcohol in the other liquors, just less diluted. You're adding booze without watering down the flavor. We usually use Everclear for that, but you have to use a very light hand, since it's stronger than you think.

I drank a couple 151 shots last weekend, and on the morning after, everything I swallowed (food, even water) was followed by some stinging pain in the stomach area a few seconds later. Took a greasy burger + potato salad to get rid of that.

I joked about drinking 151 shots then lighting my breath, but luckily, i thought of that _before_ drinking it, so it didn't sound like a good idea.

OK so I'm hijacking youngergirl's profile to tell one of my many 151 stories (and not the only one involving open flames). We used to bring it out quite often back in the day, towards the end of the night when only a few remained. One night, we had been lighting it on fire on my bar, and then started talking about lighting our breath. Couple shots later, and we gave it a try. My friend and I went outside, and the plan was for him to take a drink, then spray it out, and I was in charge of the lighter. So, he takes himself a nice hefty swig as I am firing up the zippo. He realizes midway what a terrible idea it is to try and keep a mouthful of 151 contained, and half sprays, half spits it out, in no general direction. I was still going through the motions with the zippo, and all the sudden there's 151 coming at me. It makes a really cool little fireball, and everyone cheers and thinks it's super cool. I failed to realize that he managed to coat my hand in 151, and, yeah, it didn't really go out right away. I didn't even notice it at first, cause i was cheering about the fireball! So, a couple seconds later, the guy who spit it is pointing at my hand, and sho 'nuff, i had a burning fist! luckily it was winter, so I just ran over and punched a big mound of snow and it went out, no harm done, but the crowd found my flaming hand way cooler than our attempt at the fireball circus act.

Yay drunkenness!
-The boyfriend

But does she smell like garbage?