I was just upset the other day that there wasn't a new video for a while. Then you hit us with this golden nugget! Excellent video. Good vibes all around and a good time. Cheers everyone!
Thanks. We had fun with it. And, as you probably saw, one of two odd-ball flavors we tasted at the end was one of the best! Was actually hoping for something silly like that to win.
Nice work. I take a shortcut...I steep various things in jars filled with inexpensive vodka (mini cucumbers and mint /raspberries and lime) for a few days and then add a splash to seltzer and ice. Works great.
Great video! The editing is superb! I’m interested in brewing my own concoctions and have been watching your videos to learn. If you guys could ever do a video about getting started, that’d be awesome.
Listen, i've lived with this secret long enough. That's exactly how it happened. Am I excited about this monster I created? Not exactly. But there's no going back now.
5lbs table sugar $2.50, 5.5 gal tap water $0.03, pitch on yeast cake from a cream ale $0 (or just do a trad beer yeast starter from harvested yeast), no nutrients. Flavor in the glass with torani so it's sweet ($6 ea, about 2 bottles will do it) $14.53 for 5gal, or $0.27 per 12oz serving. I also drink without flavor, then it's a Finnish kilju: $2.53 or $0.05 each. Beer is still better.
Hi, followed this recipe and have a couple ??'s. 1. My seltzer is a little sweeter than "water" and cloudy (yellow-ish tint). Didn't look like that until I added the yeast nutrients. The gravity is higher as well, around 1.033. Do I just let it sit longer and see if the yeast keeps going (it's been fermenting for two days).
Hahaha. Yeah. We were def. trolling. BUT we made, tried, and actually liked the thing we were sort of making fun of. So, i guess the joke was on us at the end of the day.
@@ClawhammerSupply power to ya! I don't necessarily hate white claws and other seltzer drinks but I hate that they kinda shoved craft beer to the side. I'll stick to things with character and taste lol
@@marcoz2470 You can brew beer that is equal in calories, and is fully dry (so low carb), but far more flavorful. For example, a 750 ml bottle of Jester King's Le Petite Prince, an absolutely amazing beer, is about the same calories as a 12 oz Truly. Or, you can opt for an ounce of very flavorful spirits for the same calories (just avoid rums, unless you've done your research, and know which ones haven't been backsweetened). I'm not saying people shouldn't enjoy a hard seltzer, just that there are more interesting options that fit the profile of low carb, and low calorie. The people who seek hard seltzers generally aren't looking for challenging or interesting drinks. I think they just want something that tastes pleasant, and gives them a buzz. 🤷
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Not because I've tried this, but from my experience making mead. Fruit flavors often require a surprising amount of sweetness.
Hahaha. I felt like I didn't have any "seltzer appropriate" attire, so I picked that shirt up the morning we shot that vid. Pretty sure if we re-post this to tiktok or something one of us needs to still have the labels on our clothes so we don't get banned.
Probably needed to backsweeten for a lot of those flavours to hit properly. At 0.997 it's probably so dry that most of those flavours turn a medicinal/ cleaning liquid flavour.
@@ipodhty Propylene glycol is not a good taste or maybe even it could impact mouth feel. It is unnatural. I can only suggest you try something with it. I make my own carbonated (and un-carbonated) mineral waters in five gallon kegs. I had searched for lots of sources of flavorings and everything I found with propylene glycol ruined my mineral waters.
@@ipodhty I wouldn't think that is the issue. If you can find a small bottle of any flavor with it, you'd have to just experience it. There are many places to get flavors. One in Las Vegas is called something like one-on-one flavors. There is also a better place, but the name isn't on the tip of my tongue. Once you experience it, you'll really understand it. Maybe I'm too picky, but I've probably spent between $250 and $500 to experiment with flavors for my mineral waters. I've ordered from many different sources. All have that same issue. If I could find a solution, I'd be thrilled. By the way, I'm a homebrewer. I've won 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze at the California State Fair in 2020 - the last time they had a homebrew competition. I don't even drink anymore, as I'm too critical of all beer.
Guys, I followed this recipe almost to the letter but 2 days after fermenting in the kettle and seeing plenty of fermenter activity I’m getting a bit of a green apple smell with no change in hydrometer reading. Have you experienced this on other batches?
Aren't you supposed to let the flavoring steep in the seltzer for some time? Not sure but it seems reasonable to let it blend in with the rest of the drink naturally through time or else it'll taste harsh
I would like a recipe for a one gal batch of seltzer. I am just a beginner. I have one gal. jugs nothing bigger. There for I would like to start out with a one gal batch. Just expiramentting to see what wife would like Thank You
Can’t I just put good water in a keg, add vodka and flavouring, and then carbonate it? Is that technically cheating on something that’s already stupid easy?
Cool it with the editing. Hard to watch with "we add yeast, pew pew lula lula lula honk ping ping lot lot, our hot water needs to be , zonk zonk lop lop ting tong zoot zoot, we had a slight problem with keeping, bam bam (slowmo shot) bang ding. Remember the star swipe transition effect between scenes in the 90's? Don't over use it. Did not watch the whole video.
Why does this need to be boiled? It's not like beer that utilizes the heating for hot break and getting rid of dms but just sanitary water to begin with and some salts and yeast nutrient. Better just to boil a bit of the water if the yeast nutrient needs it and just skip the boiling and cooling process and dump the rest of the ingredients to the fermenter. If you are concerned on bacteria on sugar just boil that with the yeast nutrient on normal kettle and stovetop.
So good to have Rachel back. And the creative on this video was fantastic. Best video yet if you ask me
I've said it once, and I'll say it a thousand more times: the editing is TOP tier! Loving every minute of it, guys🤙🏼
I was just upset the other day that there wasn't a new video for a while. Then you hit us with this golden nugget! Excellent video. Good vibes all around and a good time. Cheers everyone!
Probably the most entertaining seltzer taste session I’ve seen! Actually makes me want to make some more
Thanks. We had fun with it. And, as you probably saw, one of two odd-ball flavors we tasted at the end was one of the best! Was actually hoping for something silly like that to win.
@@ClawhammerSupply yeah I was surprised by the banana being a winner. I always hated banana runts but now I’m curious 🍌
With content this good I don’t understand why you don’t have 1 million + subscribers!
Great to see your videos. Havent seen Rachel in a while either. Glad everyone is together.
Probably the best how to video I've ever seen. I am now competing against White Claw here in Tennessee.
Nice work. I take a shortcut...I steep various things in jars filled with inexpensive vodka (mini cucumbers and mint /raspberries and lime) for a few days and then add a splash to seltzer and ice. Works great.
Your videos keep getting better and better, I see 200k subs in your future very soon!!!
Best hard seltzer video on the interwebs - no contest. Great work guys!
Thanks!
Great video! The editing is superb! I’m interested in brewing my own concoctions and have been watching your videos to learn. If you guys could ever do a video about getting started, that’d be awesome.
Check out the "Her First Beer" video on our channel. We made it specifically for beginners.
Wait, which Brian McGonagle is this. VW???
I’ll check that one out. Yeah man, from VW! Been a long time! Glad to see you’re doin well and still making sweet videos.
Loving Ross' obsession with chowing down on unskinned fruit
Glad to see you back on the channel Rachael
Best video yet. Love the intro. Sarcasm meter off the chart.
🤙🤙🤙
Easily the best video yet. Great editing. Good laughs.
Absolutely hilarious! Amazing editing too.
Good to see Rachel back.
Never could have guessed it was this easy, thanks for the recipe fams!
Awesome, your workplace looks like so much fun
It ain't bad!
Contender for best video yet
Loved the video, looking into making something like this next spring because why not. Might have to pick up that cherry flavor.
love this, what a great crew
You guys and gals crack me up. Great vid. Thanks
Next level, folks
I've watched this one twice and it cracked me up both times
Y’all should do a Low & Slow hard seltzer video. Round 2! Lager or champagne yeast. Interested to see how it would turn out :)
Knocked it out of the park with this one. :)
I only like white claw cherry! It finally arrived in our german stores :D
Fantastic editing and content for the video. Loved it!
This content is next level! Incredible stuff
Thanks, Kaleb
The editing is on point! Haha!
Absolutely loved the video. So how did you add the carbonation?
Force carb
And the conclusion being... Brew beer🤓 Awesome video and content as always!
Yay Rachel is back!
I dont usully comment on videos but when I do they are funny, this video was great!
Emmet looking like The Mandarin with those shades and hair pulled back!
What’s with all the casks right behind you? Looks interesting
We're gonna fill em with beer!
I loved the creation of the style intro - now we know the truth
Listen, i've lived with this secret long enough. That's exactly how it happened. Am I excited about this monster I created? Not exactly. But there's no going back now.
Seeing the barrels in the background had me so distracted, what do they have in there... I need to know, also great video.
Awsome video guys. Yall had me laughing and I learned something new.
This was great and really summed up seltzer 🤣
These are getting wackier and I love it
Editing is so, so good.
You guys make learning fun af 🤣
Hilarious video, thanks guys!
Weeee inveeented thisssss... classic
100% true story.
killer vid clawhammer!
Thanks duder!
awesome video. thank you. cheers!
Can you do a slushie hard seltzer please!? Like Drekker's Plops.
how do you guys make sure its carbonated ? by keg or priming sugars?
You guys are EPIC!
I like your spirit.
i lol'ed excessively at the blink counter
5lbs table sugar $2.50, 5.5 gal tap water $0.03, pitch on yeast cake from a cream ale $0 (or just do a trad beer yeast starter from harvested yeast), no nutrients. Flavor in the glass with torani so it's sweet ($6 ea, about 2 bottles will do it) $14.53 for 5gal, or $0.27 per 12oz serving. I also drink without flavor, then it's a Finnish kilju: $2.53 or $0.05 each. Beer is still better.
This makes me wish it were summer
That bite of the banana has me rolling
It's not a fad, it's a lifestyle! I'm never brewing beer again! Cheers!
perfect.
Hi, followed this recipe and have a couple ??'s. 1. My seltzer is a little sweeter than "water" and cloudy (yellow-ish tint). Didn't look like that until I added the yeast nutrients. The gravity is higher as well, around 1.033. Do I just let it sit longer and see if the yeast keeps going (it's been fermenting for two days).
I love how much you guys troll in this lol
Hahaha. Yeah. We were def. trolling. BUT we made, tried, and actually liked the thing we were sort of making fun of. So, i guess the joke was on us at the end of the day.
@@ClawhammerSupply power to ya! I don't necessarily hate white claws and other seltzer drinks but I hate that they kinda shoved craft beer to the side. I'll stick to things with character and taste lol
Please do Czech Lager with decoction
We did a banana beer with decoction. The beer sucked but the decoction process is legit.
I like this
This is the de facto origin story of hard seltzer. Prove me wrong.
If you work there do they supply you with your own hipster sunglasses...or do you have to bring some from home?
Nice.. you entertained me thru a 12 minute video on a type of beverage I have no interest in. Well Done.
Definitely need more Rachel in the videos
When are we going to see the Fun Dip beer/seltzer?
still don't see the point in sparkling water with alcohol and artifical flavours, but the video was entertaining (as expected!).
Sounds like every vodka drink ever, honestly. I'm assuming it's mostly for people that want the effects, but not the flavor.
It’s for people who don’t want to consume a lot of carbs or calories.
@@marcoz2470 You can brew beer that is equal in calories, and is fully dry (so low carb), but far more flavorful. For example, a 750 ml bottle of Jester King's Le Petite Prince, an absolutely amazing beer, is about the same calories as a 12 oz Truly. Or, you can opt for an ounce of very flavorful spirits for the same calories (just avoid rums, unless you've done your research, and know which ones haven't been backsweetened).
I'm not saying people shouldn't enjoy a hard seltzer, just that there are more interesting options that fit the profile of low carb, and low calorie. The people who seek hard seltzers generally aren't looking for challenging or interesting drinks. I think they just want something that tastes pleasant, and gives them a buzz. 🤷
@@marcoz2470 so the alcohol doesn't have any...? ;)
@@Vykk_Draygo to each their own.
SPF yum!
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cant i just mix seltzer water and vodka and add some flavoring?
Try adding some sugar even artificial sweetener with the flavouring, works better!
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Not because I've tried this, but from my experience making mead. Fruit flavors often require a surprising amount of sweetness.
Great suggestion. I think that's what was missing. A lot of the flavors we expected to like ended up being "duds" probably for that very reason.
It certainly works, or did for mine!I made an apple sour batch and the flavour didn't come at all without a sweetener!
Took me until 5:10 to notice Kyle still had the sticker on his new shirt.
Hahaha. I felt like I didn't have any "seltzer appropriate" attire, so I picked that shirt up the morning we shot that vid. Pretty sure if we re-post this to tiktok or something one of us needs to still have the labels on our clothes so we don't get banned.
Probably needed to backsweeten for a lot of those flavours to hit properly. At 0.997 it's probably so dry that most of those flavours turn a medicinal/ cleaning liquid flavour.
In hindsight, agreed.
I've tried flavorings from many different companies. The underlying problem is the use of Propylene Glycol.
Oh yeah, this is definitely food science!
How does propylene glycol effect the flavor?
@@ipodhty Propylene glycol is not a good taste or maybe even it could impact mouth feel. It is unnatural. I can only suggest you try something with it. I make my own carbonated (and un-carbonated) mineral waters in five gallon kegs. I had searched for lots of sources of flavorings and everything I found with propylene glycol ruined my mineral waters.
@@mutantryeff could be doing something to the surface tension
@@ipodhty I wouldn't think that is the issue. If you can find a small bottle of any flavor with it, you'd have to just experience it. There are many places to get flavors. One in Las Vegas is called something like one-on-one flavors. There is also a better place, but the name isn't on the tip of my tongue. Once you experience it, you'll really understand it. Maybe I'm too picky, but I've probably spent between $250 and $500 to experiment with flavors for my mineral waters. I've ordered from many different sources. All have that same issue. If I could find a solution, I'd be thrilled. By the way, I'm a homebrewer. I've won 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze at the California State Fair in 2020 - the last time they had a homebrew competition. I don't even drink anymore, as I'm too critical of all beer.
Guys, I followed this recipe almost to the letter but 2 days after fermenting in the kettle and seeing plenty of fermenter activity I’m getting a bit of a green apple smell with no change in hydrometer reading. Have you experienced this on other batches?
Aren't you supposed to let the flavoring steep in the seltzer for some time? Not sure but it seems reasonable to let it blend in with the rest of the drink naturally through time or else it'll taste harsh
What a fun video. Ross is a fucking legend
He is. And his arms really are that long.
SELTZER BOiii…. Where did you get them shades from?
Why dont you use a lager yeast? Itll be more neutral. I find some hard seltzers taste really yeasty, almost to the point where you get nauseous
Yo slack line is hard af
Anyone try the raspberry flavor?
I would like a recipe for a one gal batch of seltzer. I am just a beginner. I have one gal. jugs nothing bigger. There for I would like to start out with a one gal batch. Just expiramentting to see what wife would like
Thank You
I can tell you guys love hard seltzer!
Can’t I just put good water in a keg, add vodka and flavouring, and then carbonate it?
Is that technically cheating on something that’s already stupid easy?
This is the best type of ridiculous
Thanks!
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They made sugar moonshine without destiling.
the best flavor was ruby grapefruit but wasn't on here😩
CH vibes on this one lol.
Use puree not extract 😓
Hard seltzer please hop water just a suggestion
Might as well be trying to clone Zima
Beer, I'm sorry but your time in the sun is over. Hard Seltza takin' over!
I think you may have gone a little hard on the flavours. Im busy with R&D and less is more with the flavours
Cool it with the editing. Hard to watch with "we add yeast, pew pew lula lula lula honk ping ping lot lot, our hot water needs to be , zonk zonk lop lop ting tong zoot zoot, we had a slight problem with keeping, bam bam (slowmo shot) bang ding. Remember the star swipe transition effect between scenes in the 90's? Don't over use it. Did not watch the whole video.
Isn't this just kilju?
HB4L 10 months ago
Or you can be a normal person and just spike your seltzer. Instead of buying a drink where they skimp on the alcohol
Why does this need to be boiled? It's not like beer that utilizes the heating for hot break and getting rid of dms but just sanitary water to begin with and some salts and yeast nutrient. Better just to boil a bit of the water if the yeast nutrient needs it and just skip the boiling and cooling process and dump the rest of the ingredients to the fermenter. If you are concerned on bacteria on sugar just boil that with the yeast nutrient on normal kettle and stovetop.
To kill any wild bacteria that might be floating around in the ether.