Sending VODKA through a BRITA FILTER: Does it really work?
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Does sending alcohol through a Brita filter work? Does sending vodka through a Brita filter remove the alcohol in it? In this video we test this trend once and for all using science. Proving whether or not the filter removes alcohol using a hydrometer!
#Britafilter #tiktoktrend #alcohol
TheoretiCole
There are a few people saying my experiment is flawed so I’ll be conducting another experiment with ever clear! And I’ll make sure not to prime the filter with tap water first.
will you post it soon
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If you primed the filter with water, yes you diluted the the alcohol.
Exactly, the water will push out and mix with vodka. Only real way is to prime with vodka first
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I don't know how it's flawed. Mythbusters tested to see if filtering cheap vodka make it better. They had one of those people whose job it is to judge the taste of vodka. The conclusion was that filtering cheap vodka made it better but it didn't make it top shelf. However, they did not test if the alcohol level changed. In that regard you went further than they did.
It shouldn't remove any of the alcohol. The filter was already waterlogged when you started , so the final solution was diluted alcohol.
I’m going to do another test and make sure to use ever clear and not prime the filter! Haha
Ever clear?
Oh god that brings back memories. Good luck.
@@nameisprivate5429 if it brings back memories you clearly didn't drink enough.
@@ItsTheoretiCole mans never came back, damn
you diluted the output with the water you used to prime the filter! Filtration does not reduce ABV.
Thank you! This has been tested, retested and tested again! Alcohol molecules are smaller then water molecules and pass straight through it! Smell may reduced , even taste , but not the alcohol levels.
Koskenkorva is Finnish, not Norwegian. The name means Rapids' ear, but really the name is just a conurbation of a city in Finland.
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Ngl while watching this video i expected it to have hundreds of thousands if not millions of views, keep making content like this and you’ll make it on youtube for sure. Cheers 🥂
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@@ItsTheoretiCole he’s not lying idk what your financial situation is but if u can get a consistency going this channel can be your full source of income.
I find it hilarious he brought home a Finnish bottle of vodka from Norway and thought it was Norwegian.
What Finland isn't in Norway 😂
Americans when geography
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Thank you Brandon!🙌🏻❤️
21% peach "vodka" this is for babies in Finland
You don't "lose about 10% of the alcohol", you lose about 10 percentage points (or about -22% in this instance!).
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This means so much. Thank you! Unfortunately I had to take a break due to my day job. I have another video in the works. Hoping to drop it soon🙌🏻
Agreed! I went to see how many subscribers he had thinking it would be around 1 million, blew me away that it’s under 1,000
Do more testing with ever clear. I love this video
This video is so underrated… i thought this was a million+ channel 🎉🎉
That scrubs sing along earned you a sub
At this point you might as well just cut the vodka with a little bit of water to drop the alcohol content down a little bit per shot.
I've been brewing beer for about a decade now. This experiment is flawed because you didn't have a hydrometer reading of the vodka mash before it was distilled. When brewing beer you get a hydrometer reading before fermentation starts and after fermentation is over and factor in the difference. You do this because you'll never have a perfect 0 if there's anything else besides water in your test. That vodka only had 37% alcohol, that leaves 43% of the volume for water, trace sugars, if it's a potato vodka the possibility for trace amount of starches, what have you. Brita filters use activated charcoal which does not filter alcohol / ethanol. It's actually extremely common for distilleries to use charcoal filters to get impurities out of their finished product, but some lower shelf products don't filter their spirits as much or as slow as higher end products which could leave behind impurities that would impact your hydrometer reading. The easiest way to prove this would be to go buy Everclear, a 190 proof spirit, and run it through the filter and you'll see no change in the hydrometer reading.
Challenge accepted Mr Cheez
I got a chance to really read your response. I appreciate your feedback and valuable information! I am a bit confused with what you’re saying. A starch is a sugar. I see your point about the vodka having starches in it and giving me a false reading on my hydrometer but your statement seems backwards to me. A starch is a sugar which will increase the liquids buoyancy and raise the meter resulting in a lower alcohol percentage. So if you’re saying that the filter retained those starches than the liquids buoyancy should have decrease resulting in the hydrometer to sink more giving a larger alcohol by volume reading?
You also mentioned getting a reading on your mash before and after fermentation. In this case that doesnt matter. As long as my meter reads zero in tap water and I get a reading on my alcohol right before the test, thats all that matters. Im confused why I would have to get more than one reading for my initial take? Especially before its even distilled? Thanks!
He gave you a big long response to your comment. I would love to see a reply.
@@ItsTheoretiCole I think cheese is saying low shelf vodka aka the vodka you probably used had some impurities due to the fact that the products distillery not doing a good job at filtering, making your meter read different after filtering that out and not the “starches” In the vodka or sugars! Also when you gonna make another video to show us the 190 proof ever clear filtered? Thanks!
@@ItsTheoretiColeSorry. But your logic is flawed. Before your next experiment you need to visit a distiller and ask their advice on how to accurately perform this experiment.
I've been wondering about how the filtration effects the ABV%. In all the videos I've seen you were the first to use a hydrometer which as another commenter already pointed out, may've been accidentally diluted due to the filter itself being waterlogged. I had a hunch the filtration might effect ABV but not that much because most liquor makers are already using activated carbon such as what the Brita system uses to smooth out flavor and remove impurities.
Wouldn't it further dilute the alcohol a second time even if not by much? If it's that the filters retained water dilutes the alcohol then what effect would "priming" the filter in a stronger alcohol like say, Everclear, have on the vodka or a similar strength alcohol?
Good video brother. The pacing and editing are on point. Could you share the name of your outro song
Lemon aid or sucking on a lemon gets tastes out of your mouth which is why they use them at food tasty ing competitions to see who makes the best pie or what not.
When working near the edge of a roof, workers have to wear a fall protection harness hooked up to a line connected to the roof. I was working a roofing job and the lines to the harnesses weren't connected to the roof. I asked about it, the supervisor said 'well, just don't fall' and laughed. He explained that the roof lines got in the way of the work so the harnesses were just for OHS who sometimes drove by and looked up from below because the inspectors wouldn't actually come up on the roof. It was an example of 'forget everything you learned in training'.
Get a jug of cheap vodka and use some of it to prime the filter, that way water residue isn't left in the filter. Great video by the way! I loved how you went in to the science of it!
Love your show giving me Alton Brown Food Science vibes
honestly really good video, the shot sounds and editing were fasantastic
Criminally underrated channel. Hopefully the algorithm catches up. Cheers.
It does not help with a hang over but after 3 or 4 times filtering with the Britta it improves the taste
I have a Still and often make grain alcohol at home. I have filtered my alcohol through a Britta filter. I believe you’re drop in alcohol is due to you, activating the charcoal by putting water through it before your initial test, the residual water inside that with the amount of alcohol you poured in is probably the reason you saw a slight decrease in ABV
You're kind of saying things without actually putting it into words, so I'm just gonna ask to make sure, and then also ask something that's following up on what I assume are the results of what you said.
Are you saying that the ABV didn't change when you put it through the Britta filter?
If that's the case, was the taste different? If so, in what way?
Also, thank you for your comment! You saved me the trouble of testing what you've already done!
@@epilome “IF YOU AD WATER TO 40 PROOF YOU GET 39.98 PROOF”
Such a great video!
How TF are you only at 500 subs?! Great video broski, Keep it up.
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yes a new video! these are great!
Hey brother I hope you are well. I hope your able to start making content again soon
activating the carbon leaves water in the filter
so activate it with water send a bottle through once re fill that bottle shake check abv
then send it through the filer 3 times for taste smell
Hey man did you stop making videos? Please make more I think you’re really great!
Seems like pouring the same booze through an non-filtering matrix would still lose a substantial amount to evaporation. Maybe run a control for that like they do in real science. JK, your videos are looking very good for early days.
1. The Hydrometer is actually set to distilled water. Tap water has minerals and chemicals in it.
2. It does not tell you how much alcohol is in the liquid. To do that you need a prefermentwtion gravity and a post fermentation and distilled gravity.
You didn't give accurate info.
Yo amazing video dude. Production value and editing is great, I hope the algorithm treats you nice and gets this video to trend. I googled specifically if someone did an ABV comparison for the tiktok trend and I’m surprised I had to tweak the search query so much to find your video. I’m glad I found it though. Keep it up you’re one of my new favorites 🫡
Much appreciated!
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What I heard is putting cheap vodka through a brita filter will make it taste like good vodka, not remove the alcohol taste. I never tried so idk.
You're missing one variable with your alcohol reading on that 37.5% and that's temperature. Most alcometers are designed for 20 degrees Celsius to be accurate
Why does this guy not have more subs 😂
Because he's lame
If that was a real vodka commercial id buy it in a heartbeat
I just saw this video man. Great editing, put yourself out there!
Thanks for making this informative video, Toby Maguire
Prime with the cheap booze, not water. It's cheap, which is why you are testing with it. It works. I have filters for vodka and for whiskey.
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Try with everclear please
I will!
Brita filters don't filter out ethanol though.
That’s what I thought! This experiment says otherwise though🤷🏻♂️
@@ItsTheoretiCole That experiment is flawed though. You don't know what else is in that vodka that the filter is removing. You'd need to control the variables better.
@@strauby12 i don’t believe there are any salts or sugars present. It’s plane vodka. The only other variables that could influence the result I would assume are salts and sugars. A 10% loss in abv should be a result of an actual abv decrease. I don’t think there is really anything else that could of caused the result???
@@ItsTheoretiCole If it was taking out the ethanol, why was the second passthrough the same? Shouldn't it have removed more of the alcohol if your hypothesis is true?
@@strauby12 I would say no because the filter essentially reached it’s max capacity of what it could store. The filter isn’t making the ethanol “vanish” its storing it. This is my thought process…when I ran it through again, that 10% of the alcohol that was already in the filter being stored, was flushed out making more room for another 10% to be stored. Obviously it doesn’t work exactly like that but thats the best way to explain it. Im not sure what’s in the filters but whatever it is, it can retain a certain amount of ethanol. But it can only hold a small amount. Kind of like placing a 5gl bucket in an empty pool. You dump a 50gl drum of water into the 5gl buck and 45gl overflows in the pool. You collect that 45gl in the pool and dump it into the bucket again. 45gl overflows back into the pool again. The filter is the bucket in this scenario. Btw I’m not arguing with you by any means! Im interested in learning more about why this happened as well. Whatever info you can give me is helpful
100k Subscribers before 2024 for sure
How do you only have 638 subscribers.
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I actually had you as my opener when you said “this is a game changer” but ended up using Hannahs sound bite instead. Glad I found you on here!
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@@call_me_cookem i plan on doing a follow up video. Do you mind if I use that part of your video in my intro?
@@ItsTheoretiCole you can use any part of any of my videos. Feel free :)
The alcohol level does not change, you had residual water in your filter from your 'priming'.
1:17 it’s a peach liquor but he didn’t have apples to put by it so he put onions…..
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Thank you!!! 🙏🏻
my only comment would to spin the hydrometer to remove any bubbles stuck to the sides
this is the only test that matters. taste, well we can just dilute it more.
How do you only have 500 subs
Isn't that an Alcometer? A Hydrometer measures the specfic gravity and is used when calculating the amount of sugar in a mash/wash before distilling. It wouldn't be read in ABV %. Alcometer just gives you and ABV reading by %. Correct me if I'm wrong please.
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Damn you went to Norway I'm jealous. How did you afford that 😮
Your filter was most likely saturated with water
Where’s the other video??
Dude that's not how a hydrometer works. It's not 45%. You take the original gravity vs the final gravity with that tool subtract them from one another then find the factor of that by 131.25
So. ABV = (OG - FG) * 131.25. You can't find the abv of this vodka because you never knew the OG. You didnt lose any alcohol. You lost residual sugar.
sit. Nothing 20% alcohol can be called vodka.
Can’t wait for the next video now
Wth how are you not famous
Please come back and make more videos 🙏
jeez u still have liquor from years ago… i might be an alcoholic lmao
What if you 5 Brita filters and put it through each one but one after another
Can I prime the filter with Everclear 195 proof?
Koskenkorva Peach is a liqueur. 🎉
Why did you stop making videos? You make good videos you just need tike and consistency. Give it time and you will hit 1m subs
Well I Think the filter is disinfected Maybe Maybe
35 is still pretty damn good👀
You bought vodka, in Norway?? Are you unbelievably rich or something
Omg i thought i was watching 1M+ channel.
Britta is only charcoal
2:16 made me subscribe
These UA-camrs are always TRYING to be funny instead of just being normal and naturally funny
So does it get u drunk yes or no
35% is still much
Here before he is famous
Where does the liquor go ?
im like.... ok???
YOU LOST 10% OF THE ALCOHOL BECAUSE YOU PUT WATER THROUGH IT FIRST. YOU WERE GETTING WATER THAT WAS STUCK IN YOU FILTER!!!!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Seems like you lost more like 22.3% and not 10%.
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I don’t understand the reference😂
Good show
You also need to take temperature into account because every compound: water, ethanol, sugar, etc... will have a different rate at which it changes density when temperature changes. You also need to calibrate your hydrometer because even though you're reading it at likely the temperature it's intended to be used at, there are variances with every hydrometer (this is the case for every instrument you use to measure stuff). So you need something that you can calibrate your hydrometer with, like distilled water at a specific temperature. Then raise that temperature to something else to create two points of reference. But then another concern arises... is your thermometer calibrated...? This is where you need to get NIST involved and buy standards. Good luck you fool!
PS did you purge your filter of the water you purged the filter with... :O
Nice scientific experiment, I guess, but for anyone interested in drinking good-quality vodka it's so much easier just to purchase quality vodka in the first place than to bother with filtering vodka.
@@BeThr_Best_Served_Neat_On_Ice Agreed! Carbon also filters out desirable flavors too. One of my favorites is the Portland potato vodka, $30 for 1.75 L.
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I make 96% alcohol, that tastes like water... With a burn.