Ötzi® Fireliqueur

The Ötzi fireritual - great and funny surprise with friends:

Fill the glass to the brim and set ablaze with a match. You determine the strength – the original is 50% vol.

• After 3 minutes on fire 45% vol.
• After 5 minutes on fire 42% vol.
• After 10 minutes on fire 33% vol.

Blow out the flame. It is best to stir the liqueur with a small spoon and let the glasses cool down briefly. Your friends will be delighted!

Safety notice
Dealing with fire requires caution. Use fireproof glasses, never start the fire on combustible surfaces and blow out the fire carefully - alternatively the flame can be smothered with a larger glass. As always, our principle also applies here: To the enjoyment, but never in excess.

Ötzi the Iceman

On 19 September 1991 a glacier mummy representing the Chalcolithic Europeans was discovered at Tisenjoch at the main ridge of the Ötztal Alps at a height of 3210 m. The discovery of the “Man from Hauslabjoch” from the period around 3400 BC was a sensation. The “Man from the Ice” was discovered in a diagonal groove of the Similaun glacier, that had been moving across this groove for the last 5300 years. “Ötzi” (or “Frozen Fritz” in English) as he spontaneously came to be known as, could thus “survive” the time there quite safely. Only as the glacier ice withdrew, the site of discovery was laid bare. The “mummy of Similaun” has been on exhibition in the South Tyrolean Museum for Archeology in Bozen since March 1998.

Since Ötzi was discovered in the border region between North and South Tirol, both Italy and Austria at first laid claims to the find. According to the line of the border as agreed in 1918, the mummy was found on Italian territory. In 2006, a new treaty between Italy and Austria came into power according to which the watershed determines the border – however, since an exception was agreed upon for Tisenjoch, the discovery site of “the man from Similaun” remains South-Tyrol, after all.