Beer vs Sodastream - Will it carbonate?
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Now it's time to test if beer can be made even fizzier with the addition of carbon dioxide.
Not the most successful of the carbonation experiments. After making the video I tried to drink the carbonated beer directly from the sodastream bottle and it basically dumped all the carbonation out instantly resulting in a jet of foamy beer shooting out my mouth.
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Leave a can open in the fridge overnight then test if the sodastream restores it to fresh sparkling beer.
Yes, we need to know this
For science
It will absolutely recarbonate it (lots of breweries force carbonate in a similar method to this). The problem with it sitting overnight is the oxygen exposure will oxidize the beer and make it stale. It will recarbonate but won’t taste good.
This.
@@ferrisr so one could use the slops in a brief time frame…. Say take a bucket home at closing …
Disgusting but interesting…
Clive... Thank you for doing a public services of your "Will it Carbonate" series doing these dangerous and messy experiments so we don't have to!
"This has come off to a terrible start."
Clive, these are the things that give me the greatest joy.
@Chris lol
I agree, my room mate got one of these and uses it all the time. No way would I want to test these things for myself. So we let Clive do it for us so we can see the results.
I’ve been watching for years, and it finally paid off - Clive with foam in his Beered.
After the cut:
Room: **covered in foam from top to bottom**
Clive: "This is fine..."
"One moment, please..."
I make my own beer. I once had a batch fail to carbonate. Tried carbonating it in my SodaStream and it was kind of a mess just like that. :)
For forced carbonation of beer (kegs) you usually have to hold it at pressure for 2-3 days. If you over carbonate then you just pour foam out of the tap :)
I began to make my own beer once. We realized we did not have any bottles, and the shop was closed, so we had to buy a bunch of beer, then drink it in order to get the bottles. Then we got so drunk we could not make the beer. It just ended up a huge mess with a few drunks passed out. Possibly not my finest hour. Never did actually make beer.
If it isnt carbonating, it isnt fermentin. Frign new guys ;D
@@MichaelOfRohan I was about to say CO2 literally produced via fermentation how do you ferment without getting gas?
I make shitty prison wine from oranges sometimes and it makes TONS of gas.
Now failing to retain carbonation, that's a whole different thing.
@@ianbutler1983 - I think you unmade beer.
During summertime, I make my own ginger ale. The trick is to use 2L plastic soda bottles. They can withstand an enormous amount of pressure and usually will just deform (get a lot taller) if the pressure gets too great. During Prohibition, Grandpa brewed his own beer and fermented it in bottles stored in a shed. Grandma said that the symphony of exploding bottles was an experience that she didn't care much for.
I used to do this. Problem is that when they do go, they go _bad_. I knew some scuba divers whose idea of recreation was to pressure test those bottles. Some of them would happily take ridiculous pressures, but some would go off like bombs. I had one bottle of ginger beer which I didn't keep a close enough eye on and it developer pressure lines around the neck, went _ping_ if you tapped it, and I was genuinely concerned that it would injure me as I released the pressure. (Worth it, though. Proper ginger beer is great.)
Sparkling water bottles are cheaper 😉
@@JasonJohnson-yu8zf Who buys sparkling water?
@@tubastuff a lot of germans lol
@@Anonymuskid Do they call it "seltzer' or "club soda" in Europe?
I always look forward to silly sodastream experiments from you clive, they are super entertaining.
Hey Clive. I'm not sure if you're a coffee guy, but "High Brew" makes canned coffee that has a thermite heater in it. You twist the bottom to activate it, and it heats up the coffee.
Idunno I thought maybe that would be something you'd be interested in showing. They're out of stock now, but there's a wait-list.
That's stupid. I want one
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 me too 😞
There was something similar for Nescafe or a similar outfit for sale in the UK about 20 years ago. It wasn't very popular and got withdrawn from sale a few months later.
Wait. Thermite? THERMITE?
Brings back memories of the Stainless Steel Rat books - he had a bit of a Thermite fetish..
And its not particularly unsafe, you just work out the temperature you want and then calculate the charge size you need to get to that point..
Could be worse, could be Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane 😁
I appreciate your dedication to making so many videos. No matter my mood or health, they always make me smile.
"Stick to sensible things like wine and vodka." This is why we love you, Clive.
I love your reactions. Your monotone voice makes videos easy to watch. Keep up the good work!
Love that you’re still doing these experiments with the sodastream 😂
Love the thumbnail. Dont ever change Clive 🙂
"Stick to sensible things like wine, and vodka" absolutely creased me at the end haha!
These are always so fun!
Now, however, I'm left with the question can you re-carbonate beer after it's gone flat and will that make it taste good again?
By the time it goes flat it will have oxidized and potentially skunked as well. You can restore the carbonation but it won’t ever taste quite right again after oxygen exposure.
@@ferrisr let it go flat in the fridge or better yet freeze it then thaw it out, it'll be flat but it won't have oxidized!
@@ferrisr I've drank some really dark beers the morning after a drinking session and they still taste pretty good but are no longer fizzy. However, I would imagine the viscosity would be problematic
@@ferrisr yeah it would work for sugary drinks I think but beer is too sensitive and perishable.
Excellent 😁 However, you need to do this again and show us the result of chugging it straight from the bottle😁😁😁😆🤣
= a seventeen-minute-long burp?
Now I'm wondering if you could use the sodastream to recarbonate carbonated drinks that have "gone flat" and lost their carbonation.
Yeah, definitely. Soda is literally just sugar and hateful chemicals that are carbonated. You'd just be re-doing what they already did once
I don’t see why not.
As long as the fluid itself isn't stale or old, it should work. However, the soda stream has a pressure relief that can get clogged and stuck if you put anything other than water in it. In layman's terms, "pressurized vessel full of soda explodes violently."
Quick blast with an electric hand blender 😉
@@cancelhandles This has been discussed on this channel so, so many times.
This is very important research you are conducting Clive.💚💚💚
i like when Clive says "a wee bet." i actually love it haha.
Every time you lent backards while drinking, I fully expected you to just tip completely over! I just love watching these carbonation videos, they always make me smile
Best series on UA-cam!
I always love these “Clive After Dark” challenges. When you’re in Tokyo, get in touch! Would love your take on Akihabara.
Never a Dull moment with *Big* *Clive* !
Nice shades, bro.
We Love you Big Clive
Many home brewers have done worse with secondary fermentation. I did a cider once with a little too much sugar as i bottled it. It tasted great, nice and strong, but i had to open each bottle in the laundry sink. A 750ml longneck would magically reduce itself to about 300ml of hangover juice in the space of 10 seconds.
I was a lot mare careful after that.
Love the "Will it carbonate" videos - please do more!!
A long time back I made elderflower champagne and stored the screw top bottles in an old coal bunker that I thought would be cool enough during the fermentation period.
Clearly not as I came home to find the bunker had been recoated on the inside - but there was that lasting wonderful aroma of elderflower.
I could only dream of it's taste!
Thanks Clive, been having a rough run of it, and your video made my day better.
Ah cheer up lowerman, it could be worse
Brewing beer with my roommates we once over calculated the bottling sugar. Roommate added twice the recommended amount. A week later we couldn't open the bottles with a gushing foam over, losing almost half the bottle. Our solution was placing the bottles in the freezer for 20+ minutes. After that they opened just fine. We used Grolsch pop top 16 ounce bottles. Fun times.
Thank you clive for another wee drinky episode!!!! from your biggest fan in tasmania!!!
I get all my drinking advice from Big Clive.
😂
Clive answering the important questions for us, as always!
This just HAS to be the funniest video in the Sodastream series! I was in stiches!! Awesome Clive. Thank you so much for this laugh this morning🤣
For more fun - how will different beers "overcarbonate"?
That should probably be done outdoors for quite obvious reasons.
I wonder if that would be a nice co-op project with The Slow Mo Guys just to make it as spectacular as possible!
You crack me up. I missed your videos during my absence.
I think you need to revisit this. I did this to a couple beer that were lower on the fizzy scale. I was quite happy with the results.
Looking very dapper n dandy in those shades n cap...Sir 👍😁
That look in the end while saying «wine and vodka» will pursue me for quite a long time.
"I'm not sure this is a productive thing to do" Clive, you lunatic! Love it!
👏😂 i thought it was going to explode there for a second. Great video 🤣
I've been watching your channel for a year now, and whenever I see your hat I get the urge to take a bite of this. It looks like a cake
Jiffy condoms are no longer manufactured. However, the brand is available through a new distributor, Family Planning Sales (FPS), which bought all remaining Jiffy stock earlier this year.
you're a legend Clive! Cheers, I couldn't believe when you replied to my comment but you really did it :) one love ese
I still read every comment and try to reply to as many as possible.
Splendid! If there was ever something I would not have thought of, you just did it. Thank you. Keep testing. Good luck! 👍
A suggestion: use a straw for testing liquid when the foam is so foamy. Yeah it’s not the right way. But you are trying to carbonate something already carbonated. Just sayin’. Love your stuff Clive!
Your exactly what I expected don't change a thing. Keep it up bud
It would be interesting to see if it is possible to recarbonate flat beer
my thoughts exactly, just a couple of short squirts might be all it needs to bring a beer back to life.
You can make foam on beer or soda settle faster by rubbing a finger on your nose and then touching the foam. The oils on your skin can make the bubbles pop faster, and noses are a fairly oily patch of skin on most people.
Suffering from your art there Clive!
A straw would get to the beer!
A straw would create more nucleation sites and cause more foam!
You heard the man 'stick to carbonating sensible things like LIKE WINE AND VODKA'! thanks again Clive. The most important work.
Clive, do people suggest you do things like this, or do you just think this madness up all on your own lol 🙂This why I love your Videos
Some suggestions, mainly my own foolishness.
'How do you know it's YOUR beer?'
"It's got my picture on it"
i laughed there Clive ! in your first sentence then shortly very soon you said "there's only one way to find out " i knew ha ha you were going to anyway ! nice one cheer's Clive keep them flowing 10/10
Am i the only one who thinks this series should have an intro similar to "Will it blends"? Amazing Serie and Video as always
Breweries and home brewers force carbonate beer all the time. It means you can drink it a lot quicker than doing secondary fermentation to produce carbonation. Typical beers will have about 2.3 volumes of co2 per litre of beer but some styles go up to about 6 and you have to have super thick bottles for those.
Tips when force carbonating are squeeze all the air out - you're doing it on foam which is fine. Then for pouring have the glass super clean and cold.
My father and his friends used to carbonate home made beer by adding around 40psi CO2 to a sealed container if I remember correctly.
I say some of you chaps across the pond really have good videos on the Telly! “no that’s not working” 😂😂😂
I have enjoyed your channel for a long time. Cheers from Chicago.
I'm still laughing. Clive, you are an irresponsible man and should not be let out unsupervised... completely hilarious, you have made my day!
I’m gonna be honest most of the time I have no idea what you’re saying about electronics but man your voice is soothing keep up the good work!
As a Spaniard, I'm happy to see representation for the beers of my country, thanks for the video Clive! And you got it right at first! The way its spelled you pronounce it ma-DRI!
It's brewed in Tadcaster
As an American, I love the Glaswegian accent and lingo ("a wee bit") haha Something I would have tried is using the "nose oil" trick I learned in college (if you have oily skin, wipe your finger on your nose and then swirl it around the foam) which almost immediately breaks the surface tension of the bubbles and kills the foam.
"lets go ahead and do it anyway" that's why I love this channel lol.
I'm laughing my ass off at this, from the beer in the beard to the sudden coughing and crazy amounts of foam (fun!). ❤
Big Clive: This is not a good sign
Also Big Clive: Let's do it anyway
Me: This gonna be comedy gold!
This could have ended very badly. Glad you tried this because I never would have.
I went from your video on dubai lamps to this and I'm not disappointed at all.
I think this is the only time in my life I've seen someone pour beer, look at the head, and say, "Wait, no, that's bad."
It's the subtle things here lol
I like an attractive head on my beer but it should just be a bit on the top, it's the beer I'm really after.
"Hmmm, it's very fizzy...".
Yeah. Well done.
Thank you Clive! I needed this video :)
Hello BigClive. Is there a beverage that is naturally 'flat' that you have not put in the Soda Stream yet? I'm asking for Chocolate Milk, if you'd like.
Milk curdles, but I may give it a go.
@@bigclivedotcom might have a point there, as per the Baileys episode. Sorry in advance if it makes a mess of the machine. 😁 Thank you.
@@bigclivedotcom I think some milk-based drinks (Yoohoo?) use already curdled milk product, so those might have different results.
Hi Clive, you could have removed the carbon with a vaccum pump first and then add it again later :) . (I got my vacuum pump for about 170€ at amazon and its safe and doesn't require oil.....gets down to -0.85 BAR and its fun for lots of experiments. You can do room-temperature alcohol distillation for example ;) preserves the flavors too)
Hi Sean, I love this idea, but how do you recondense the booze after?
I was looking at a scientific tool called a rotovap that's designed for vacuum distillation but those little beauties cost an arm and a leg!
@@murunbuchstanzangur vacuum trap + two valves to keep everything flowing
@@seanrh4294 ok, thanks for the info, it's a very cool setup, figuratively and literally! That's what I want to try this setup, I want to preserve some of the more fragile scents and flavours. Galangal was one possibility. So the trap would be between the vacuum chamber and the pump?
I did a beer kit once where I bottled it too soon. Not too soon as to cause bottle explosion but when you opened a bottle you had to do it outside and the cap would go flying, even the fliptops. But once decanted into a glass it was very refreshing.
I tried this 20 years ago when a friend worked as driver for the famous Hobräu in Munich, he came with his beer truck and I could fill a nice 10l glass container. Unfortunately we didn't managed it to drink everything this evening so I had to "sodastream" it the next day.
It was an unbelievable mess (pro tip: bathtub)but tasted great
This makes me happy I have an older SodaStream where the bottle screws in, and I don't have to hold the gas injector mechanism down to keep things under pressure. I can do a triple fart, then just let go and let it sit a while. Then my pressure release is a press-to-release-the-pressure lever that I can gently release in steps rather than Clive's release-to-release-the-pressure mechanism.
RSVP your soda stream. Everyone thought it would be something crazy and gross like Irish cream that would do it in, turns out it was something entirely prosaic.
I do hope you continue the series with a new carbonation device. But can you really, truly replace the memories created by such a brave and hard working soda stream?
LOL! Well that went just as expected.
That beer really took a fond approach to co2... but also shedding it at any disturbance level... well as they say "easy come, easy go"
That froth is created by a product called Tetra Hop. It’s a product made from hops that’s designed to improve foam stability
I reckon you might be able to turn that into a product, come up with some spin about the foam improves the flavour by releasing beer gas into your nasal passages as you drink and you can charge a fiver for a glass of beer foam with just a few millilitres of actual liquid in it.
Love it man, Respect.
Oh Clive it's the start of technical foam party
The techno heir to Gallager's humor of things.
Thanks Clive, that was hilarious
I'm not sure if the led matrix was specifically chosen for this video and I don't think it was lol but it is fitting. The yellow LEDs pulsing randomly remind me of the carbonation in a beer.
Here's an idea: Jerry rig a whipped cream dispenser to make nitrogenated alcohol (or can you stick nitrous cartridges in the soda stream?)
I think you'd need something creamy or the bubbles wouldn't stick around. There's a reason why nitrogen is used for whipped cream and seemingly nothing else. However, "will it whipped cream" is just a great idea
Guiness already does it
@@youtube.commentator and? I didn't say nitrogenate a can of Guinness
Really appreciate the official *Clive Is Carbonating* attire, and ignoring the instinct that testing it on beer is likely a really bad idea.
In Canada we'd call that alcohol abuse.
What are those big reels on top of your electronics drawers? They look silvery in the video but I've never seen solder in reels that big.
ROFL! great video Clive. Funniest one youve done in a while. Love it! XD
2:52 you know, some fancy bars sell foam in a Champaign glass (or a snifter). its supposed to be foam with some kind of essential flavor chemical added like benzaldehyde (cherry flavor)
I originally read the title as Bear vs Sodastream and had a "Whaaaat?" moment. Then again it is a Big Clive video...
How do you do this trickery ? Comments from a month ago but posted now. And why continue to do these sodas stream videos? I love your channel but wow you sure do love the soda stream. Almost as much as electronics
One thing you may want to try with clean hands is skimming the top of the foam with your finger. the salt dissipates some of the foam anyway.
Awesome Video big clive
Mr Clive we’re those bin thingies behind you really expensive?
I would really like something like that to hold all my little connectors and components.
For Christmas my grandpa and uncles let me go buck wild on Digikey and SparkFun Electronics
That's one crazy sparkling experiment! - also, where can one acquire the blinking panel to you upper-right?
The Drinkmate is a SodaStream knock-off which explicitly supports carbonating any beverage not just water.
Not sure how SodaStream works but on the drinkmate the release valve is a separate part, it still makes a mess but it's not too difficult to clean.