The reasons we drink may vary, whether it’s to connect, to forget, to end a workday or to open an evening.

With tiki cocktails, however, the reason bubbles straight to the surface: It’s to have fun.

Mai tais, zombies and fog cutters do the trick. But the scorpion bowl, group-friendly and potent, takes tiki’s night out to boisterous levels. It is unlike anything else.

“It’s 100 percent fun,” said Julie Reiner, owner of the Brooklyn bars Clover Club and Leyenda. “Nothing makes somebody happier than a drink that comes to you on fire with crazy garnishes and a whole bunch of straws.”

The scorpion bowl, a mix of rum, gin and Cognac served in a large ceramic bowl , is an oversize, boozy paradigm of excess. If the mai tai is a good Saturday night out at the bar, the scorpion bowl is an exuberant party thrown by four drag queens during Pride Month.