Wonderfully important question!

[desperance]

If you make a firebomb out of a bottle of whisky and the tail of your shirt, because you're improvising and there's just no time to find petrol and soap and sugar and so forth for the proper Molotov, will it still explode? Is there enough oomph in regular retail alcohol, or will it just burn at the wick like an oil-lamp, or what...?