More commonly, bombardino is obtained by mixing 3/4 of hot traditional Italian egg liquor (for example Vov or Zabov) and 1/4 rum or brandy.

It has several variations: with coffee (calimero), with rum (pirata or pirate)[2] or whiskey (scozzese or Scottish).

One legend says that the Bombardino was created by a Genovese man who moved to Livigno in the Italian Alps, and who eventually ran the Mottolino hut.

The Bombardino's name was then supposedly derived from one of these first imbibers noting its hot temperature and high alcohol and remarking (in Italian) "It's like a little bomb!".

[2] The bombardino may also have been created in 1972 by Aldo Del Bò, a ski lift manager in Livigno.