Just a safety note to people and a warning for anyone you serve this too, don't drink this until all the dry ice is sublimated away, if you swallow dry ice you can really damage your throat/stomach.
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????? People swear like sailors on UA-cam but retain monetezation. This video does nothing wrong other than containing use of alcohol and it's demonetized? Unbelievable...
The problem is that it was able to be monetized while I had it as unlisted. Only after it published was it demonetized, so no opportunity to fix the issue
If you keep the cocktail in the dry ice, but don't add the citric acid, it will eventually turn purple. You could see it starting when it was poured out for the "decanter." The carbon dioxide from the dry ice is dissolving into the fluid creating carbonic acid lowering the pH.
Yep, you are right. The change of color is not so visible like when he used citric acid because carbonic acid is really weak and, most importantly, it's in equilibrium with CO2 and water so there isn't much in the glass but we can observe a slight color change.
Cool stuff! Love the oil & vinegar container thing! In future, if you want to show off the color of a transparent liquid as in this video, having a white background behind the glass will make the colors easier to see. So for your format something like a white shirt, cummerbund, or apron would help sell the color change visual without any big workflow changes.
There's an Australian product called Ink Dry Gin that's been around for a couple years now, and uses the Butterfly Pea Flower as one of its botanicals. Delicious gin and also very easy to incorporate into cocktails as it floats quite easily on top of citrus elements. Came up with a drink I call Pretty In Ink, which has 20mL Lemon, 10mL Simple Syrup, 15mL Limoncello and a couple dashes of orange Bitters as the bottom layer, then 45mL of the Ink Gin stirred down and layered on top. Serve it a posh champagne glass so the layering is very obvious, and serve it with some sort of stirring implement (I like an orange twist on a cocktail pick). That way the customer gets to see the two layers and then watch as they stir the drink and it turns from yellow and purple to bright pink.
The Colour doesn't come from a pigment. It's a Molecule called Anthocyanin which is blue in neutral and basic solutions, but is changing it's colour to purple in an acidic environment. That happens because the molecules structure lets it absorb the red spectrum of the light which makes it look blue and with a changing pH the structure changes aswell. The new structure now absorbs more of the blue spectrum which makes it appear red/purple.
The Empress 1908 Gin produced in Victoria BC, Canada is made with butterfly pea blossoms. Looks just like that vibrant indigo, and changes colour when you mix with tonic or citrus juice. It tastes crisp, and delightful. An absolute treat for your taste buds and eyes!
Such an underrated channel... Its so awesome and the quality is so damm godlike. I'm not that kind of alcohol fan but i def. need to say that i will try every goddamm type of special cocktail of this channel!
I really appreciate your videos. Your passion for this craft is apparent and compelling. I really enjoy watching your videos- I’m just sorry I didn’t know it existed until I saw your cameo on Binging with Babish.
I really enjoy this new faucet you’re giving cocktails: chemistry and different techniques: the smoke bomb, the whipper, this... keep the bar high man!
HA! I just got this pea flower tea a month ago because I was fascinated by the color change (and the fact that this indicator is more palatable than most). You'll have to step up your game by releasing more content :)
I think Corrine Leigh used that tea in a video for galaxy lemonade - basically making what could be called an iced lemon tea out of it that turns pink when the lemon is added to the blue tea. It's cool to know of at least one natural blue colouring, even if it changes colour with acid. Natural blue foods are almost non-existent and the few that exist tend to be like blueberries - in reality they are only blue on the surface and really purple underneath.
Blueberries have a kind-of dusty look to their surface that makes them look blue. So do true blue raspberries. The juice however is purple. www.rebootwithjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Benefits-of-Blueberry-Juice.jpg
Mimi Sardinia sorry, I meant as a natural blue dye. though I realise now you were referring specifically to foods. but if you're interested, there are several species of indigo-bearing plants and/or woad, and the dye obtained from the murex snails, though that's more purple again
Amazing, of sure! The gin must give a unique floral smell, while the citric acid must give a refreshing taste. The drink is clearly made for Halloween, but it will nice in a hot day. I think that changing the dry ice for a mint or peppermint leaves at the rim of the glass would be as much as beautiful.
The dry ice would also server to change the color. As the CO2 sublimates, it will react with the water to create carbonic acid. Im guessing that you might need to put a bunch in to actually change the color appreciably. Really cool idea.
Hey, One thing to remember is that the dry ice will change the color by itself. CO2 forms carbonic acid, and a common chemistry demonstration is to add dry ice to a PH sensitive solution to show the effect of a Lewis acid.
I tried to make this and had to make a little alterations since the tea I used wasn't concentrated enough. The main part being I made the blue tea into a syrup with 1/1 simple syrup. Then made it like a negroni with 1 part syrup, 1 part gin, 1 part triple sec. Stir and strain into rocks glass, squeeze a lemon wedge into the glass and stir Infront of the customer. You get a smooth and delicious cocktail
It might work, although the citric acid will reduce the freezing point of the water (like salt does) so it might not freeze, you'd have to try it to find out.
Owen James it won't lower the freezing point too much. But doesn't that mean that these cubes will form an ice layer around them as long as they are melting at -5 or -10 degrees, containing the acid liquid for as long as they are melting? After that the ice layer would melt, releasing the acid. That would give you ~2-5 minutes before any colour change happens!
A better way is to buy a butterfly pea flower extract. Add it to your ice. Then make a drink like a tom collins and as the ice melts, the drink will turn pink.
A friend of mine uses a whole Punchbowl to make His "Ritual of Black Death" it's basically a show mixing of a Mai-Tai that he finishes of with Blue Curacao instead of tripple sec so the whole bowl turns pitch black in an instant, not as flashy as this but still pretty fun to watch
If you all noted, it started to take a purple color even before he added the citric acid solution. This is because the Carbon Dioxide dissolved into the beverage forming another acid, Carbonic Acid I believe, and made it slightly more acidic. This is the same reason Seltzer or Soda water taste slightly sour.
Thank you i've been looking for a video like this to prove a theory of mine. The indicator responsible is anthocyanine (most likely, am not completely sober at this point in time). For those of you that aren't swimming in clitoris it will be nice to know that anthocyanine is also in large quantities in red cabbage, just dry it in the oven and use it just like your fave female Body part in the video
@Cocktail Chemistry: 1:42 Instead of Citric Acid, can you use Ascorbic Acid? Since it's basically pure vitamin C then the drink would be little more healthy to drink too?
Thanks! I do want to do a video on fat washing at some point, which can be used to get some of the astringency out of teas. I know sweet vermouth tends to pair well with Chai teas
Tea is a great cocktail ingredient, and there are many cocktails that feature various teas. Earl Gray is often used. A recent favorite of mine is the Green Monk, featuring Matcha Green Tea (but regular green tea works as well), gin, ginger, honey, lemon, and Green Chartreuse. onemartini.com/matcha-green-tea-cocktail/
Gunfire is the only one I can think of, invented by the Brits during WW1. Basically just a cup of tea with a shot of rum in it. Not exactly the fanciest brew.
Beautiful drink, the only problem I see with it is that the CO2 dissolving into the drink before adding the citric acid actually makes it more acidic taking away some of the color variation when adding the citric acid solution. Maybe adding the citric acid solution and the CO2 together would give more contrast from the color change. A minor point, otherwise cool stuff!
man i was worried you made a red cabbage juice cocktail and i was worried for a minute, god i dont want to think about what that would have tasted like.
Brandon Pelletier Empress 1908, but yes. Victoria distillers makes a nice gin, and I've shamelessly stolen their recipe for a gin old fashioned because it's quite enjoyable.
I knew that date looked wrong. I am the bar manager at a cocktail bar in Northern BC and had bought their gin in for a short run line of purple drinks, and fell in love with it. Mind sharing the gin old fashioned recipe?
Brandon Pelletier Sure, it's pretty simple, a bar spoon of maple syrup, 2-3 dashes of orange bitters, ice and 1.5oz gin. They serve it in smoked glasses, but it works just fine without.
I guess that if I let the flowers steap for less time or simple add less of them with the same amount of water, I will get a lighter blue and a more clear tea right?
You get a lot of your glassware from world market? I work there and i recognize a lot of the stuff like that oil cruet and your flip top bottles, even your bamboo knot picks and bar spoons
Luca Peyrefitte but to be honest now, I see a slight difference but it's almost not existent, but show me one of those colorblind tests with red and green and I'll fail miserably
Ok, that was really cool, but what about adding the dry ice to the citric acid so that when you pour it, not only it changes the color of the cocktail but also adds the dry ice smoke on top. I think that would look even cooler (I dont' know anything about cocktails though)
No problem! Your teacher was probably just saying that to keep people from doing anything stupid. If a high schooler knew it was a laxative, how many do you think would try to spike their friend's drink with it? Lord knows I was that stupid.
In many Cocktail-tutorials bartenders say you should Stop shaking once you hear the tone of the ice start to Change. I have difficulty with Hearing That, could you do a Video treating this subject?
I’ve been thinking about a cocktail using the Butterfly P flower’s for a while and was thinking if you make a ice cube that is hollow and put the citric acid inside that and then place the ice cubes like that into the blue cocktail is the I smelt it would then slowly release the citric acid and therefore slowly change the colour of the cocktail?
There is a gin called Empress 1908 that is made with those flowers, so you can cut out the middle man and use ~3oz of that half a lemon. Badabing badaboom
Chemistry tip: Add the dry ice right before serving, and don't add too much. If you chuck a bunch of it in the tea and let it sit it will form carbonic acid and change the color before the citric acid solution is added.
Quote: Add the dry ice right before serving Can you elaborate further on this please? I'm not sure at what part you're supposed to serve the dry ice. Thanks.
Ski Ski this is a channel teaching us home gamers how to make cool cocktails, and chances are if you're making this for a group of friends at a party you'll be making more than one putting you at risk of leaving some sitting for too long and thus ruining the color changing surprise. Also, unfunny sarcasm in the UA-cam comments is the cancer killing these communities.
Ease on the throttle killer, I just asked you a simple question and you start going off on this soap box rant about ethics and sarcasm. How the hell did you interpret anything I said to suggest that!? All I want to know in reference to your original comment was when to serve the dry ice: Was it after you mix everything together while serving it to your friends? Because it was phrased kinda vague for me... now, don't go an interpret this as some sort of hostility or I'm trying to be passive aggressive, like I said, eeeeeeeeease on the throttle. Just need clarification is all brother. Now we can be friends again.
How would infusing the gin with the tea work? Would it still have the desired effect and how much do you think you would need? Also, I love your channel and your work, please keep it up!
Question: If I make ice cubes out of the citric acid solution and make the drink in a bigger glass, can I have it be both tasty and changing color in real-time throughout the drinking experience?
What I would probably do is make the tea hot, add a lime wedge, a spoon on honey, and a shot of gin. I’m a fan of hot cocktails though, so that might just be me.
Imagine a cocktail where you have cocktail bubbles in the drink, you have clear ice and clear layering of liqueur in the drink, you have a smoke bubble on top, the color changes, and the bubble is on fire 🤯 most expensive drink to ever exist and probably not possible since I don’t think the bubble would hold up to flame
This makes me wonder something; for reasons I'm not going to go into, I know that pomegranate juice will turn blue when mixed with something slightly basic (around 7.2-8). I'm wondering what sort of ingredients you could add to make a cocktail change from red to blue?
Just a safety note to people and a warning for anyone you serve this too, don't drink this until all the dry ice is sublimated away, if you swallow dry ice you can really damage your throat/stomach.
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Cocktail Chemistry i really feel bad for you content creators
Damn that sucks
????? People swear like sailors on UA-cam but retain monetezation. This video does nothing wrong other than containing use of alcohol and it's demonetized? Unbelievable...
prolly that early on joke. ;P But still, boo on UA-cam, you deserve to be paid for this cocktail sorcery! XD
The problem is that it was able to be monetized while I had it as unlisted. Only after it published was it demonetized, so no opportunity to fix the issue
I have seen so many cocktail videos in the last 3/4 years. This channel is directly on point..the visuals are amazing. The whole vibe is calm too.
If you keep the cocktail in the dry ice, but don't add the citric acid, it will eventually turn purple. You could see it starting when it was poured out for the "decanter." The carbon dioxide from the dry ice is dissolving into the fluid creating carbonic acid lowering the pH.
Goes from cobalt (like the color of the UA-cam "reply" button) to a more indigo color.
Yep, you are right. The change of color is not so visible like when he used citric acid because carbonic acid is really weak and, most importantly, it's in equilibrium with CO2 and water so there isn't much in the glass but we can observe a slight color change.
Cool stuff! Love the oil & vinegar container thing!
In future, if you want to show off the color of a transparent liquid as in this video, having a white background behind the glass will make the colors easier to see. So for your format something like a white shirt, cummerbund, or apron would help sell the color change visual without any big workflow changes.
cummerbund :D
There's an Australian product called Ink Dry Gin that's been around for a couple years now, and uses the Butterfly Pea Flower as one of its botanicals. Delicious gin and also very easy to incorporate into cocktails as it floats quite easily on top of citrus elements. Came up with a drink I call Pretty In Ink, which has 20mL Lemon, 10mL Simple Syrup, 15mL Limoncello and a couple dashes of orange Bitters as the bottom layer, then 45mL of the Ink Gin stirred down and layered on top. Serve it a posh champagne glass so the layering is very obvious, and serve it with some sort of stirring implement (I like an orange twist on a cocktail pick). That way the customer gets to see the two layers and then watch as they stir the drink and it turns from yellow and purple to bright pink.
And its way better than Four Pillars
Empress gin does it too
Thanks for commenting this. I just bought the Ink Dry Gin for this purpose. Good to know what to buy locally in Australia.
In my bar, soda drinks are expired , so it changes color by itself
I dont even realy like “drink” and I don’t make any of these cocktails but... his vids are so enjoyable to watch
Keep up the good work
The Colour doesn't come from a pigment. It's a Molecule called Anthocyanin which is blue in neutral and basic solutions, but is changing it's colour to purple in an acidic environment.
That happens because the molecules structure lets it absorb the red spectrum of the light which makes it look blue and with a changing pH the structure changes aswell. The new structure now absorbs more of the blue spectrum which makes it appear red/purple.
That's the definition of a pigment. Some react to a change in light, some to pH.
Man you are an artiest pure art all the best cheers
The Empress 1908 Gin produced in Victoria BC, Canada is made with butterfly pea blossoms. Looks just like that vibrant indigo, and changes colour when you mix with tonic or citrus juice. It tastes crisp, and delightful. An absolute treat for your taste buds and eyes!
I am blown away by this video. I never knew making cocktails had so much to do with chemistry (my favorite science) please do more of this!
Very nice execution on this one
That is such a pretty drink. I have a soft spot for blue drinks, and this one really pleases me.
I see your videos before sleep because your voice is soo deep and so relaxing
Such an underrated channel... Its so awesome and the quality is so damm godlike. I'm not that kind of alcohol fan but i def. need to say that i will try every goddamm type of special cocktail of this channel!
I really appreciate your videos. Your passion for this craft is apparent and compelling. I really enjoy watching your videos- I’m just sorry I didn’t know it existed until I saw your cameo on Binging with Babish.
The art of the cocktail is magnificent keep up the good work sir.
I really enjoy this new faucet you’re giving cocktails: chemistry and different techniques: the smoke bomb, the whipper, this... keep the bar high man!
I’m blown away by this one! Just wow!
HA! I just got this pea flower tea a month ago because I was fascinated by the color change (and the fact that this indicator is more palatable than most). You'll have to step up your game by releasing more content :)
But that won't stop me from trying your rendition. I've never had navy strength gin before and it might make a new favorite
what does the tea taste like by itself?
I think Corrine Leigh used that tea in a video for galaxy lemonade - basically making what could be called an iced lemon tea out of it that turns pink when the lemon is added to the blue tea.
It's cool to know of at least one natural blue colouring, even if it changes colour with acid. Natural blue foods are almost non-existent and the few that exist tend to be like blueberries - in reality they are only blue on the surface and really purple underneath.
Mimi Sardinia indigo?
Blueberries have a kind-of dusty look to their surface that makes them look blue. So do true blue raspberries. The juice however is purple.
www.rebootwithjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Benefits-of-Blueberry-Juice.jpg
Mimi Sardinia sorry, I meant as a natural blue dye. though I realise now you were referring specifically to foods. but if you're interested, there are several species of indigo-bearing plants and/or woad, and the dye obtained from the murex snails, though that's more purple again
Amazing, of sure! The gin must give a unique floral smell, while the citric acid must give a refreshing taste. The drink is clearly made for Halloween, but it will nice in a hot day. I think that changing the dry ice for a mint or peppermint leaves at the rim of the glass would be as much as beautiful.
Four Pillars factory is in my state in Melbourne, 10 minutes down the road. Very good product. Aussie!
This is so cool, I've never heard of Butterfly Pea Flower Tea, but holy crap I want some now, that looks so good.
The dry ice would also server to change the color. As the CO2 sublimates, it will react with the water to create carbonic acid. Im guessing that you might need to put a bunch in to actually change the color appreciably. Really cool idea.
You deserve so much more love for your informed and concise videos. Keep it up!
Oh I’m glad that I refreshed my feed for some quality content.
Hey, One thing to remember is that the dry ice will change the color by itself. CO2 forms carbonic acid, and a common chemistry demonstration is to add dry ice to a PH sensitive solution to show the effect of a Lewis acid.
Very cool presentation! I love the use of the cruet and dry ice. Great work man, I'm sorry to hear about the demonetization.
An amazing video as always. I hope I'll be able to setup a bar someday in the near future, this channel is filled to the brim with info!
I tried to make this and had to make a little alterations since the tea I used wasn't concentrated enough.
The main part being I made the blue tea into a syrup with 1/1 simple syrup. Then made it like a negroni with 1 part syrup, 1 part gin, 1 part triple sec.
Stir and strain into rocks glass, squeeze a lemon wedge into the glass and stir Infront of the customer. You get a smooth and delicious cocktail
Would it work to freeze the cirtric acid and add the ice cube to the cocktail and let it change color over time (with the metling ice cube)?
+TTrevolverheldTT I like your creativity, you should try it out!
I don’t see why it wouldn’t work :D
It might work, although the citric acid will reduce the freezing point of the water (like salt does) so it might not freeze, you'd have to try it to find out.
Owen James it won't lower the freezing point too much. But doesn't that mean that these cubes will form an ice layer around them as long as they are melting at -5 or -10 degrees, containing the acid liquid for as long as they are melting? After that the ice layer would melt, releasing the acid. That would give you ~2-5 minutes before any colour change happens!
A better way is to buy a butterfly pea flower extract. Add it to your ice. Then make a drink like a tom collins and as the ice melts, the drink will turn pink.
Is the slow-motion part of the recipe or can that be skipped?
You can't skip it but it is okay to speed the process up.
mandatory
I *SUPPOSE* that you could skip it, but i mean who in their right mind would do that. Its one of the quintessential parts of this drink
Nah man,you can't skip it. It's essential
Very clever! Never heard of that tea before, amazing stuff!
This channel is so thoroughly enjoyable! Keep up the good work!
A friend of mine uses a whole Punchbowl to make His "Ritual of Black Death" it's basically a show mixing of a Mai-Tai that he finishes of with Blue Curacao instead of tripple sec so the whole bowl turns pitch black in an instant, not as flashy as this but still pretty fun to watch
If you all noted, it started to take a purple color even before he added the citric acid solution. This is because the Carbon Dioxide dissolved into the beverage forming another acid, Carbonic Acid I believe, and made it slightly more acidic. This is the same reason Seltzer or Soda water taste slightly sour.
Glad you're back! Cool stuff!
Thank you i've been looking for a video like this to prove a theory of mine. The indicator responsible is anthocyanine (most likely, am not completely sober at this point in time). For those of you that aren't swimming in clitoris it will be nice to know that anthocyanine is also in large quantities in red cabbage, just dry it in the oven and use it just like your fave female Body part in the video
Just gave this one a try (without the dry ice) and damn, I was impressed.
@Cocktail Chemistry:
1:42 Instead of Citric Acid, can you use Ascorbic Acid?
Since it's basically pure vitamin C then the drink would be little more healthy to drink too?
Cool technique! Very insightful video. Look forward to giving it a shot.
When I saw the title and the colour of the drink, I assumed you would be using red cabbage. The tea makes way more sense.
Beautiful cocktail, great video!
That's super neat, and we got to see some tea on the channel! Are there any other notable cocktails or suggestions for using tea in cocktails?
Thanks! I do want to do a video on fat washing at some point, which can be used to get some of the astringency out of teas. I know sweet vermouth tends to pair well with Chai teas
Tea is a great cocktail ingredient, and there are many cocktails that feature various teas. Earl Gray is often used. A recent favorite of mine is the Green Monk, featuring Matcha Green Tea (but regular green tea works as well), gin, ginger, honey, lemon, and Green Chartreuse. onemartini.com/matcha-green-tea-cocktail/
Gunfire is the only one I can think of, invented by the Brits during WW1. Basically just a cup of tea with a shot of rum in it. Not exactly the fanciest brew.
This video is amazing in many ways. Thanks for this!
that's an excellent technique, we can get the same result with ascorbic acid?
Definitely going to try this. Always looking for an excuse to buy more exotic glassware!
Beautiful drink, the only problem I see with it is that the CO2 dissolving into the drink before adding the citric acid actually makes it more acidic taking away some of the color variation when adding the citric acid solution. Maybe adding the citric acid solution and the CO2 together would give more contrast from the color change. A minor point, otherwise cool stuff!
man i was worried you made a red cabbage juice cocktail and i was worried for a minute, god i dont want to think about what that would have tasted like.
Wow just finished titration today and now this!
That's a pretty cool cocktail right there
Great video. Reminded me of this gin we have in Germany "The Illusionist" - might use the same flower
M from India n I really like ur videos....kindly upload some videos where v can find ingredients which r easily available
As the dry ice sublimates it will release some carbonic acid into the cocktail as well as CO2, so it also contributes to the color change.
This is beautiful dude great job!
You keep knocking these out of the park Nick, keep it up!
A local distillery makes a gin that does the same trick, it's purple until you add tonic then it turns pink, and it's a pretty decent gin too.
Empress 1894 gin from Victoria?
Brandon Pelletier Empress 1908, but yes. Victoria distillers makes a nice gin, and I've shamelessly stolen their recipe for a gin old fashioned because it's quite enjoyable.
I knew that date looked wrong. I am the bar manager at a cocktail bar in Northern BC and had bought their gin in for a short run line of purple drinks, and fell in love with it. Mind sharing the gin old fashioned recipe?
Brandon Pelletier Sure, it's pretty simple, a bar spoon of maple syrup, 2-3 dashes of orange bitters, ice and 1.5oz gin. They serve it in smoked glasses, but it works just fine without.
Oh man, that's so cool. I definitely need to try this sometime. Sorry about it being demonitized though. :(
I thought that the cocktail was gonna change color by itself. Enjoyed it anyways.
I saw an interview with Andrew Rea where he talked about a drink he made called the Flaming Canadian and id be really interested to see it made
We got peaflower at work gonna try it
Awesome video and cocktail! Sorry it got demonetized 😕
I love the music in these videos :)!
I guess that if I let the flowers steap for less time or simple add less of them with the same amount of water, I will get a lighter blue and a more clear tea right?
This is absolutely amazing!!!
Cool video! For a mocktail version, would soda/sparkling water work as a sub for gin?
Great video but just wondering how the tea itself tastes. Is it as good as it is cool looking?
Really neat, but aren't you supposed to incorporate citrus really thoroughly? Is just pouring it over top enough?
Hooray for science!!
Great video guy !! Why not a video about a tiki cocktail ? (advanced techniques)
You get a lot of your glassware from world market? I work there and i recognize a lot of the stuff like that oil cruet and your flip top bottles, even your bamboo knot picks and bar spoons
nice, I'm colorblind
Damn
Luca Peyrefitte but to be honest now, I see a slight difference but it's almost not existent, but show me one of those colorblind tests with red and green and I'll fail miserably
Luckily I'm colorblind as well, but mine is on the red and orange scale. So I know your pain
We could make a religion out of this
Typical
Carbon dioxide can create h2co3 (acid), that's why it turned a bit purple before mixing.
Still safe to drink, though
Hi! I am planning to serve this drink on my birthday next week. How much gin did you use here? Thanks!
Someone should make a Curaçao liqueur infused with that tea.
zwete that’s actually how blue curaçao was originally made!
Great video! How do you manage to get so much fog out of the ice? I tried it and due to the low temp of the drink, the fog was minimal.
Ok, that was really cool, but what about adding the dry ice to the citric acid so that when you pour it, not only it changes the color of the cocktail but also adds the dry ice smoke on top. I think that would look even cooler (I dont' know anything about cocktails though)
Amazing cocktail!!!
For some reason, I thought you were gonna use red cabbage for the color changing trick. Probably might throw off the taste wouldn't it?
That'a what I thought at first as well. Using phenolphthalein would be cool too... apart from the fact that it's poisonous...
Phenolphthalein isn't poisonous. It's actually a laxative, so you'd just have softer stools.
That's news to me. My chemistry teacher always claimed it was poisonous, and I never bothered to confirm it. Thanks for correcting me.
No problem! Your teacher was probably just saying that to keep people from doing anything stupid. If a high schooler knew it was a laxative, how many do you think would try to spike their friend's drink with it? Lord knows I was that stupid.
The moment i saw that blue, i knew it was butterfly pea tea
Have you use cocktail glasses with LED lights in bedded in the glass? If you have how affective are they?
Are there other edible indicators that can be used in drinks that have a more dramatic color change?
Awesome! Very cool drink
I wonder if using a tea brewed for a shorter time would work, since the tea seems to become almost too dark to really show the effect to my taste.
If you want to make the effect clearer use sulfuric acid
Amazing!!!
Nice vid!
In many Cocktail-tutorials bartenders say you should Stop shaking once you hear the tone of the ice start to Change. I have difficulty with Hearing That, could you do a Video treating this subject?
I’ve been thinking about a cocktail using the Butterfly P flower’s for a while and was thinking if you make a ice cube that is hollow and put the citric acid inside that and then place the ice cubes like that into the blue cocktail is the I smelt it would then slowly release the citric acid and therefore slowly change the colour of the cocktail?
There is a gin called Empress 1908 that is made with those flowers, so you can cut out the middle man and use ~3oz of that half a lemon. Badabing badaboom
Chemistry tip: Add the dry ice right before serving, and don't add too much. If you chuck a bunch of it in the tea and let it sit it will form carbonic acid and change the color before the citric acid solution is added.
Quote: Add the dry ice right before serving
Can you elaborate further on this please? I'm not sure at what part you're supposed to serve the dry ice. Thanks.
Ski Ski this is a channel teaching us home gamers how to make cool cocktails, and chances are if you're making this for a group of friends at a party you'll be making more than one putting you at risk of leaving some sitting for too long and thus ruining the color changing surprise.
Also, unfunny sarcasm in the UA-cam comments is the cancer killing these communities.
Ease on the throttle killer, I just asked you a simple question and you start going off on this soap box rant about ethics and sarcasm. How the hell did you interpret anything I said to suggest that!?
All I want to know in reference to your original comment was when to serve the dry ice: Was it after you mix everything together while serving it to your friends? Because it was phrased kinda vague for me... now, don't go an interpret this as some sort of hostility or I'm trying to be passive aggressive, like I said, eeeeeeeeease on the throttle. Just need clarification is all brother.
Now we can be friends again.
Is there any cocktails that use calvados that you can show us?
How would infusing the gin with the tea work? Would it still have the desired effect and how much do you think you would need? Also, I love your channel and your work, please keep it up!
Question: If I make ice cubes out of the citric acid solution and make the drink in a bigger glass, can I have it be both tasty and changing color in real-time throughout the drinking experience?
When I saw that color, I knew exactly what you used lol
What I would probably do is make the tea hot, add a lime wedge, a spoon on honey, and a shot of gin. I’m a fan of hot cocktails though, so that might just be me.
Imagine a cocktail where you have cocktail bubbles in the drink, you have clear ice and clear layering of liqueur in the drink, you have a smoke bubble on top, the color changes, and the bubble is on fire 🤯 most expensive drink to ever exist and probably not possible since I don’t think the bubble would hold up to flame
This makes me wonder something; for reasons I'm not going to go into, I know that pomegranate juice will turn blue when mixed with something slightly basic (around 7.2-8). I'm wondering what sort of ingredients you could add to make a cocktail change from red to blue?
These vids are so interesting to watch, and I don’t even drink 😂