Make blue-collar trash champagne from cheap wine.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Apparently to qualify to be actual champagne the drink has to be made from grapes from a specific region of France and thus has a controlled price making it the perceived drink of the wealthy.
Well that's all changed, since now any wine can be turned into a champagne-esque bubbly extravaganza with nothing more than a common Sodastream drinks carbonator.
The Sodastream works by injecting carbon dioxide into a drink through a diffuser, and as the pressure in the bottle increases, more carbon dioxide gets absorbed into the liquid.
The Sodastream units are designed to be used with water, and then have flavour syrups added afterwards. But in this case we are carbonating white wine. It's worth noting that red wine seems to go a bit nuclear when carbonated, so probably best approached with extreme caution. I think the high tannin content probably acts as nucleation surfaces and makes it less stable when carbonated.
That's the Champers sorted for my daughters wedding.
Now try starting with just white grape juice, adding ethanol and then doing this to see just how low we can go.
The grape juice with ethanol is a LOT sweeter than real wine because in the fermentation the grape sugar is converted to alcohol.
bigclivedotcom If someone were willing to, for some reason put a lot of effort into it, they could add about 60% by volume of alcohol to it. Sugar would start falling out of suspension, because it is less soluble in alcohol and could then be filtered out.If it is possible to distill it without burning the remaining sugars, you could then reduce alcohol to normal, wine levels. It sounds like a real pain in the ass, but I am curious how it would taste.
One of the best alcohol boosted drinks I've tried so far is simply Ocean Spray cranberry juice with some base spirit (vodka/rum/moonshine) added. The tart taste of the cranberry and bite of the ethanol is very close to red wine, but much more predictable.
Perfect. We'll make it even trashier, we'll water it down.
I believe vodka and cranberry juice is actually a thing. I've certainly done it in the past, probably copying something I saw in a bar somewhere.
Clive you have just made it onto my 'ideal dinner party guests' list.
Congratulations Sir...and keep up the good work :)
I like it! I've long used my Sodastream machine to revive cider that's gone flat, despite the maker's admonition to "carbonate water only". Re the possible mess - if you leave the bottle in the machine for 5 to 10 minutes after giving 10 to 15 short blasts of CO2 and then release the pressure SLOWLY you should find that you don't get the foaming pool of liquid under the machine. I've not tried wine but will do now! Thanks Clive.
The same thing applies. gentle release of the pressure.
Would you like more champagne Mr. Big Clive? Not a problem! *pshhhh pshhhh pshhhhh*
I didn't have any reason to get a soda stream until now
+Danny Potts In the UK a Sodastream costs around £60. A bottle of champagne costs upwards of £30 and a bottle of white wine costs £5. Payback within three bottles of fake champers.
+bigclivedotcom What about sparkling wine from California, or italian spumante or lambrusco?
Watch the sales of used eBay streams go up lol
I bought a bottle of real Champagne in Lidl the other day (or was it Aldi?) for £3.99. Well, it says Champagne on it anyway.
Asda and Tesco regularly have Champagne for £10 a bottle, but I'm not really a Champagne drinker so haven't tried it. Thought the £3.99 Lidl stuff was worth a punt though!
I love watching these videos! I came for the teardowns, but I stay for the random experiments and occasional fail.
Interesting. If you're going to the bother of faking it like this I would recommend chilling the wine as much as possible first. Then decant into PET bottles and keep cold. I have a feeling the bead (bubble size) will be more authentic after a bit of ageing, even just five hours would make a difference.
Use the dryest of dry white wines. If it is too dry for your plebian tastes then elderflower cordial is a great way to add a little sweetness and aroma, just add a couple of drops into the bottom of the glass (or jam jar) as you fill it. This can also make cheap white cider drinkable. A mixture of home-carbonated bone dry white wine and the naffest blue 3 litre PET bottle supermarket own-brand West Country rocket fuel would probably work quite well and would be a cheaper way to get nicely drunk at about 9% ABV. A good wine for sipping, slurping or especially for lying down and perhaps vomiting.
I remember trying to make fizzy milk as a kid. Not recommended. Milk everywhere.
I also tried to make "fizzy milk" as a child. It took a long time to clear up before my parents got home.
Ashens and My Virgin Kitchen didn this not long ago.
i really like your attitude, clive. you're a great role model.
Clive, you are a working mans class act my friend. Keep up the good work.
I knew you were a genius but you have amazed me yet again! I wonder what would happen if I did this to whisky...
Oh my.
You made a fizzy wine and called it champagne.
France will sue you now : |
Mary-Ann will strike you down with legal wrath.
: )
Apart from the regional nomenclature, the distinguishing feature of champagne is that (like cava) it's made fizzy by post-bottling fermentation. I think what you've got there is more of a prosecco.
It's all EtOH. As long as it gets the job done, that's all that matters.
Oy! All those Frenchies horrified by the real MacCoy;)
LOL, it sure does look like a urine sample in the bottle. Glad to have come across your great channel recently.
Isn't this how they make cheap champagne anyway?
What you need to do is add some baking yeast to some white grape juice and let that run for a day or so, then cold crash this in the fridge to clear it. (May take a day or two.)
Pre-chill your 14% ABV wine before carbonating to help prevent an overflow then add the clear yeasty grape juice in proportions that reduce the ABV to 11-12%. This will give your "champagne" its distinctively yeasty note.
You could just by cava instead though. It's superior in every way and much better value ;-)
In Germany this is called Schaumwein ("foam wine") in order to differentiate it from Sekt (similar to Champagner but not limited to a region).
+FischOderAal Even though "Sekt" is also Schaumwein. But usually if it says Schaumwein then the fizzy was added not by "natural" ways.
Hehe, good idea!!....wonder what fizzy sherry would be like?!!
The simple wine trick that France doesn't want you to know about!
CAN YOU BOTTLE IT AND STORE IT FOR A FEW MONTHS OR SO, AND WHEN OPENING THE BOTTLE, YOU WILL GET THE BUBBLE EFFECT, OR WILL IT GO AWAY?
Haha this is amazing! Now I want a soda stream
Can I do this with bourbon so the soda doesn't water the drink down?
(Yes, I know I'm commenting on a three year old video, but these damn things keep popping up in my recommended list...)
I think my brother tried carbonating whisky. The problem is that you have to do quite a lot and I'm not sure how well it holds the carbonation.
CO2 also adds a slight bitterness to drinks.
Is this video the actual beginning of your carbonation experiments?? The Sodastream device is certainly different than in your leater videos.
It was my original unit that took smaller gas cylinders.
MY QUESTION IS HOW LONG DOES THIS FIZZINESS LAST AFTER YOU BOTTLE IT LIKE A NORMAL CHAMPAGNE PROCESS?....OR DO YOU HAVE TO USE IT ONLY AFTER THE RUN IN THE SODA MAKER MACHINE!
I'd recommend using it as soon as it's been carbonated for maximum fizz.
Ugh! Hate white wine but love red. However, I don't mind traditional champagne. ...so this might make the white stuff more palatable. Thank you for the idea
fantastic and hilarious Clive your a star!!
I've never had champagne that didn't taste like cheap wine, so you might be onto something.
Yeah I had seen some guy trying to make his red wine fizzy using a Sodastream, needless to say it didn't take the carbon dioxide and promptly spewed wine everywhere.
Oh that machine, You can add "fizz" to ANYTHING and I mean ANYTHING..
I should dig mine out and fizz up some vodka.
Friend of mine a few years back in Vegas actually soda streamed a bottle of his own piss.. Don't ask me why he did it or for what purpose or what he did with it, the mention of it at the time was enough to gross me out and I did not care to hear the rest of the story..
Actually I do know what happened and the purpose. He used it to spray on people on the strip..
+ElfNet Gaming OH! Too much information. But on a plus note.... Yes you can carbonate vodka and whisky.
+ElfNet Gaming Your friend sounds like an ass O.o
Donkey piss?
Next step; making your own blue-collar trash wine and save even more!
if possible can you review AA nimh at 4600mah batteries which are for sale on amazon and ebay. they have brand name 'flash'. wonder what happens if they are connected to a dumb timed charger and given their whole 4600mah from flat. I guess they would go Flash. an amazon review gives capacity as 1350mah
I wonder how well this would work to carbonate home brew beer, instead of secondary fermentation in the bottle?
Oh, the sheer joy (of someone like me, who, apart from Port and Sherry, is made sick by wine), of doing this to some really expensive wine. I was wondering if this would work on spirits. Fizzy Gin, anybody?
Clive. You can fizz up shots too. I make fizzy shots and other delightful booze gimmicks.
To think my wife made me throw a Sodastream away when we moved.
+bigclivedotcom If you enjoy fizzy wines, have a try of Portuguese Vinho Verde (litteraly translates to green wine). "Casal Garcia" or "Gatao" are internationally available. The co2 inside that variety of wine is traditionally naturally produced as a product of the fermentation and not artifically added.
Champagne gets all its fizz (bubbles) from the impurities in the glass, so if the glass were 100% perfect & 100% sterile there would be no bubbles at all. so next time you're at a nice fancy event & a waiter brings you a nice fizzing glass of champagne... tell them to go wash the glass properly ;)
Been meaning to try this for a while now. I've heard it can fool people who know wines.
what's being used for the fizzy? c02/nitrogen?
Sodastream machines at the moment use CO2.
Nitrogen wouldn't stay dissolved in the drink, soon as you uncoupled it from the pressure it would escape quickly as bubbles. CO2 is more soluble in water.
greenaum Guinness gets its fine fizz by using nitrogen.
Blimey, I haven't seen a Soda Stream Gemini since 2003, we used to have one 'til it went missing (though the bottles did go missing first!)... :P
+twocvbloke Oh..... So that's how old the CO2 bottle is.... :(
+bigclivedotcom Well at least it would still be relatively sterile.
bigclivedotcom
We actually got the thing in the mid-90s (replaced an 80s model that, funnily enough, had it's glass bottles go missing!), so, it's at least 20 years old in design, though the CO2, well, that's anyone's guess... :P
Well Done Sir...! N.
Looks like something Bear Grills would drink
+djbassaus Eww. LOL
I had a great difficulty looking past the 'urine sample' comment just because you had to go use it Clive. o.o
+iStormUK Well if it was urine..... It would be fabulous.
+bigclivedotcom read my main post.... not saying anymore
Carbonated pee ;D clives next experiment
I'm trashy enough to believe them...
10/10
We do this with our homemade wine, for 90 pence per 750ml it is rather good.
Clive, please do a video on red wine - I want to see what happens :D
I wonder what spirits would be like with fizz. Fizzy neat whiskey might be fun.
I think that would almost definitely explode. Cool idea though, you get the burn from the alcohol and the zing of the bubbles ;)
+Dazzwidd Why the fuck would that explode?
+Dazzwidd Why the fuck would that explode?
Grape Koolaid, Everclear, water and a Soda-Stream.
I Love the food videos
We call it TRAMPAINGE 👍😊
Haha brilliant!
you can most everywhere get a proseco £6 a bottle that basically is a champagne just made of different grapes... This kind of devices I have seen last time like over25 years ago so they did lose some of the popularity...
Brilliant 🍷
I now want to put vodka in a soda stream...
+mc349iii Not sure it would dissolve too well, not enough water. But... I am sure clive will try it now LOL
Would you like some champagne Sir
Don’t mind if I doo Nice one
damn looks like 4800mah AA are now available on ebay also. battery technology is advancing so fast
Alcohol companies are screaming in horror
You've gone too fare Clive, this act automatically revoke the Auld Alliance !
Technically wouldn't it be Asti?
awesome
wine in a whisky snifter!! but I guess a glass is a glass so long as there is only one hole in it......
nice, would be perfect with the trashy microwave cake
That older soda stream is better than the current ones they are selling as the newer ones are assembled so cheaply now and are even more annoying to use. Id use the old one but i cant get refills or find a way to refill the old co2 canister.
+steve64464 If you look online you will find refilling kits for paintball canisters that look suspiciously like a machined T-piece with a washing machine shut-off valve on the side for venting excess gas. You attach the device to an inverted pub CO2 cylinder (so liquid comes out) and then dose the CO2 into the sodastream cylinder. You have to weight it accurately beforehand as the fill is based on weight and has to allow for expansion. Any excess can be vented until it reaches the desired weight.
I did see someone on utube unscrew the entire brass head and shove dry ice into it but i have to find the dry ice and wresling the head open is a right battle.
I have done this. Chill the wine first.
With tricks like this you'll be in for a cheap date with Fanny Flambeaux, she can have time off of her 2 litre bottle of Lambrini.
Acetylene is only a little less soluble in water than carbon dioxide.
I want to see you make flammable and alcoholic fizzy drinks now 😅
Do those noises remind anyone else of bath-time?
0:20 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It does look like a massive urine sample 🥂
Talking about urine samples...
You think anyone's ever put that in a Soda Stream before handing it over at the doctor's?
Imagine the looks on their face when they unscrew the bottle and it sizzles :)
+Ni5ei Particularly if there's a Mentos concealed in the lid.
Do you not think that nearly all champagne is made in this way?
I wonder if the plum in the mouth wine experts could tell it apart from the real thing in a blind test.
I've since seen a video where a reporter tested peoples ability to differentiate between champagne and carbonated blue-nun wine. Many failed to guess which was which.
Whisk(e)y should be next
When the hell is that Sodastream thing from?
+commodork DUDE! FFS! Have you never heard of a Sodastream? OMG! It's never lost popularity. You can even buy "electronic" versions now. Do a Google search for Sodastream. Or even an ebay and amazon search for Sodastream. Then buy one!
It certainly looks newer than the one I have. Or had, dunno, might have been chucked out long ago.
So, what happens when you use carbonated meths in a spirit lamp?
Probably something entertaining but mildly terrifying, eh?
"peasant champagne" aka prosecco. Oh no I di'n't?!
It's not real Trash Champagne unless it was sodastreamed in Champaign, Illinois.
(Why yes, of course there is an actual Someexistingplacename, Illinois for Champagne, too.)
champagne can only be called champagne if its from the region of champagne in France, else, its a champagne style wine lol
Did you read the description? Lmao
+Green Silver Yes, but i like to say champagne 4 times in one sentence
And I just thought you wanted something to wine about..
(Whine*) 😉👍🏼
+Green Silver or watched wayne's world 20yrs ago...
+Dan Dube sparkling wine... :p
Btw, it couldn't be too hard to make a soda-stream like device.
Co2 bottle from a welders supplier.
Maybe turn some nylon round-stock on a lathe.
Small tabletop lathes are quite cheap nowdays.
I thought about buying one. But didn't , what with my World of Tanks addiction etc. No time.
+Flapjackbatter There are lots of videos on how to do it just like that. You don't even need the lathe work! You can buy all the parts from Amazon, including the CO2 tanks.
+Coffeehound Yeah, and just carbonate directly into standard plastic drinks bottles too. Of course, they might explode..... But that's all part of the fun.
Surprisingly, those soft drink bottles are pretty tough. If you have a pressure regulator on the tank, and have it set to a reasonable level, you won't have any problems, assuming that the bottles are in good condition. If they are nicked, scuffed or otherwise damaged, don't use them!
+Coffeehound So you can buy all this stuff online? Ok.
I should have guessed : )
You can buy everything online.
However, I will buy the genuine Soda-Stream.
Yes. I love Israel _that_ much.
: )
One word... Schorle
No need for one of them soda stream machineries them fancy rich folks use. And to top it, with Schorle you've got near limitless flavor options .. hic
+Klaus Toft and you also dilute your wine by mixing it with fizzy water
What an excellent idea. I could serve Shoreditch twats and they'd never know! 🤣
I hate to say this but... I'm fairly certain cheap champagne is about the same price as cheap wine. Like 8 usd will buy you a bottle of either lol.
ON THE OTHER HAND. Maybe get yourself some Jack Daniels and give it the bubbly treatment, that'd be a parlor trick.
Ah, liquid filth.
it took only 26sec to make me laugh
Was tried live on air on a local radio cooking show. Made a big mess and not very good wine. Just spend the extra on the wine.
THANK YOU; I KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP LOVES SPARKLING WINE!
You could just fizz up a shitload of tesco super value wine and put it in cans ... if you happen to have a canning machine that is.
We did that with neat vodka.. It didn't end well...
Well, there are several recipes to make this CO2+wine thingy a delicious drink. Or a few more.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritzer
That's not a proper champagne glass either!
Belch...
Pardon me
So you start of with a bottle of what looks like pee?
haha
a frothy urine sample
its just not there Clive, I'm sorry to hurt your dreams
I'm shocked a DIYer as thrifty as yourself even owns something as terribly overpriced as a SodaStream. Just get a nice big, cheap cylinder of CO2 from a welding supplies store.
do not try to gas/regass beer in a soda stream machine. you have been duly warned!!
Personal experience? :)
Oh boy, that brings back very messy memories!
You have to SLOWLY open/equalize pressure. and also cool it near freezing before (but not freeze it).
Come on at least a little bit higher than trashy. :-P
+JJayzX I';ve been working my way through that litre of trashy champagne all evening. I am indeed feeling quite trashy.
+bigclivedotcom In the name of science of course, other wise this VERY EDUCATIONAL video would have never been made..
+ElfNet Gaming It's 4:39am on a weekday and I'm still drinking it while stuffing my face with potato hula-hoop snacks. Nuff' said.
Shampain...
Stick to whisky eh?
Dumm Pérignon...