Vitamin B12 Makes Any Cocktail Glow In The Dark

Black lights have earned a bad reputation thanks to hippies and CSI. But rather than using an ultraviolet bulb to light up your trippy velvet posters or run your own 60 Minutes-style hotel room expose, you should turn the lamp on your cocktails for a glow-in-the-dark twist.

Sure, you could whip up a gin and tonic under a blacklight and ooh and ahh over the iridescent hue — a result of the fluorescent properties of the quinine in tonic water — but that's been done before. We're here to help you step up your glow-in-the-dark cocktail game.

Swing by the pharmacy department to pick up some B12 vitamins. The nutrient is commonly found in meat, fish, and dairy products, and if a person's diet doesn't provide enough of the vitamin, supplements are used to prevent a type of anemia. More importantly for our purposes, when the pills are dissolved in a liquid like a simple syrup, they can cause the solution to glow bright yellow under a black light.

Because simple syrup can be found in so many cocktails, creating an eerie party is a snap. Here are a few drink recipes to get you started.