Distilling red wine to see what happens 

Ralfy: Also…hmm… about 3.75 rays of sunshine and an ant’s loving gaze.

Dude, that was funny!!!

Red wine tastes like fermented Ribena anyway. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Bold, yet insulting. Buoyant, yet flaccid.

You forgot the part where Ralphy says something mildly disparaging about Clive's palette.

And educational!

Nope

I am waiting for dropshot :p

@@DoctorX17 and that beard waaow

@@zeguenful yes

It's (de)still reverse engineering ! ;)

It s a legit way to get pished

Wait until he starts reverse engineering DNA.

Reverse engineering cheap electronics you say? You just earned this man a new subscriber.

@@snakezdewiggle6084 and coming with great syrup idea at the end LET'S GET RICH

i know that there once was an experiment where they made a bunch of sommeliers taste bleached red wine claiming its white wine and white wine with red food coloring claiming its red wine. most of them couldnt tell... i wonder how many could identify reconstituted wine concentrate in a blind test where they dont even know that one bottle isnt normal.

@@TheScarvig ...it is difficult to impossible as long as the overall quality of both products is roughly the same. Taste very much depends on circumstances - what you had for lunch, how you are feeling, what the air is like today, etc. Especially when the taste of the products is very close to each other. Blind tests bring your ability to distinguish tastes to the limit and very often cross the limit into guessing and bullshitting territory. I call myself an amateur Single Malt "Expert" - if you give me for example a random Islay Whisky and a random Orkney Whisky (I know both regions well) and then put a gun to my head and only let me live if I guess which island they are from .... well, I would have a 50:50 chance to die. Maybe I would beg you to use Islay vs. Speyside instead to give me a decent chance (maybe 80%). The "tasting industry" is full of hubris. Often what you taste in a product says more about you than the product.

@@KonradTheWizzard Only way i can confirm you wouldn't die with the islay and orkney would be if the islay was Lagavulin 16 year lmao

@@lilybruggeman9634 Exactly. Though the Octomore might work as well (the only Whisky I know for which you have to soak the empty glass in hot soap water for an hour before the smoky taste/smell leaves).

@@TheScarvig mmmm bleach

Im sure clive could work out some sort of variable speed control for the cooling fan, or possibly some sort of automatic functionality

It's fairly easy to calculate when to stop distilling if you just want the alcohol, but that was not what Clive was after.

Is he going to do a video on the distilling apparatus he is using or have I missed it?

@@johnpossum556 Search trash wine and you should find it.

I'm all in favor of that. One, because I always like trash-shine. And two, because I'm all for annoying Ralfy.

We need an atomic shrimp / big clive crossover episode once the pandemic is a distant memory. "What's the best (or weirdest) re-distilled alcohol to pair with a weird food in a can?" :V

@@serioushex3893 thanks! 🌈

I wanted to see the 95% alcohol moonshine red wine combo

Baiting a scammer using distilled emails.

ah, good to see my favorite youtuber is even more of a man of culture then i thought

Wine syrup is usually not something someone would think of as syrup, unless it happens to be a sweet wine or you add sugar to it. It generally will just be an unpleasant astringent concentrate with a subtle fruity taste.

Ha ha.

Hmmm... the Grange or the Yellow tail?

It's not in a box, therefore fancy Aussie wine

@@joshgray9035 Look at Mr Fancy getting his wine in a box. Goonbag wine is where it's at!

Yes with a bouquet of an.... I think I’ll stop there.

Sliphantom here? No way! Also thank god you're alive, 4 months is a long time.

yo, re-watching your automation videos always makes me laugh! thanks for making those!

Beer next? Could be interesting... Maybe you get Marmite as a concentrate... Who knows

Can't wait for some circuit board assembly video with similar thumbnail

Can't argue with the results.

Ralfy blows up the Bothy. 😂😂🤣

I second this motion!

He all love Ralfy and wish him no harm ...

@@ButlinsHistory 3:45

I think I'd pay to see that :)

Now do it with a Grange Hermitage!

@@fattuspattus Philistine! 😆

Classic Yellowtail , Export Brand, cheap but generally pretty nice to drink.

@@Olderdingo We're bloody spoilt here, even the bottom of the barrel stuff isn't all that bad compared to elsewhere in the world. I'm told that some of the cheapest Euro and American wines can serve as a handy replacement for paint stripper, in a pinch. Cheers! ;)

We have a program over here in England called 'How its made' and this (Yellow Tail) was on it. It showed from delivery of the grapes to the bottling of the finished product, both white and red wines were shown. The red colour comes from the skin of the grape, i don't remember how exactly they get the colour out but you still get white wine out of a red grape, you just use another process to get the red out.

without doubt more = more better. 🤣❤🤦‍♂️❓🤢🔥🟣🟣💩👍😢⛈☂

Clivebait

“WINE VS DISTILLER YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!”

Oh yeah some of those action lines and a red border, together with a stock photo of wine being compared to a stock photo of water with a red arrow would do wonders, but you have to censor the water bottle and put a big question mark over it

have to crank up the saturation, brightness, and contrast a bit too, and enlarge the eyes to really hijack the brain.

Finally a red hair dye that could last. Apparently red dye is hard to make permanent because of the size of the molecules needed and their ability to adhere permanently to a hair shaft. I saw a lot of staining going on. It looked briefly forensic at times

He turned wine into vodka 🍸, and vodka into wine 🍷

He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy.

...and then into urine.

I myself have quit drinking but love these experiments. Just such a silly concept, though I imagine if you needed an antiseptic in a post-apocalyptic world you could distill homemade mash using a solar-powered water still. I notice that Ralfy hasn’t confiscated this bottle like the results of the whisky experiment.

Another non-drinker here who loves these videos and looks forward to more of them!

Lots of camels in here 🐫

Yeah, I didn't spot the vampire blood until afterwards.

I thought it looked like Clive had a bloody lip, like he had been in a fight, probably in Glasgow.

@@BigClive I think you can start your own line of drinks and a microbrewery with all these experimental drinks and tweaking them

Great idea!

Not such a silly idea. As far as I know no one has actually done it. The shelf life would be quite good due to the tanic acid and sugar content, so I'd say it's plausible.

@@Chrisamic and no alcohol means no vinegar!

We did that once with the syrup they use in postmix Coke, marinated steak. A housemate at the time worked in a restaurant and he just changed a bag over a little early and brought home the almost-empty one. It was actually pretty nice!

The solvent properties of alcohol are also an important contribution of wine in cooking. Unless you are ideologically opposed to alcohol consumption, I would say it is better to just use the wine normally.

@@chancekahle2214 But red wine reductions are very common in a lot of sauces. Alcohol evaporates off very fast, so no solvent action is really possible in that case. So if you took that syrup and reconstituted it with a small volume of chicken stock, you'd have a rather simple culinary reduction.

I agree 150% These are experiments that needed to be done. I'm very curious about how a bourbon distillation would turn out. Anything but Jim Beam white label (the cheapest and sweetest stuff) and JD, which is not actually a bourbon despite what thousands of Asian bartenders seem to think. Jack Daniels is a whiskey, not a bourbon.

That's gone through my mind. A cocktail machine with a huge tank of spirit/sugar and concentrated flavours added on demand.

@@BigClive I'm actually surprised that that isn't a thing already. you could save decent amount of self space that way even if it wasn't the highest quality end product

@@fish3977 it doesnt need to be the best quality remeber if youre already shitfaced youre not gona notice if it tastes sligtly off

@@msx0406 and especially if you made it into cocktails. tho there already exists different cocktail mixes to streamline it

I actually managed to turn wine into water.

@@BigClive Does that make you the Antichrist?

@@BigClive I turn wine into water on a regular occurance. Whether you choose to drink it is a different matter...

I bet you didn't know Jesus had a brother. Yeah, his name was Craig. Craig Christ. He didn't turn water into wine, but into cold Coors light.

@@zachaliles Did you hear about his other brother? Jesus' brother Bob. There's even a song on youtube and everything.

I'm still gonna try that one of these days. If successful, I'm on to the Sunday paper. Pound per pound, it's gotta be cheaper than TP.

Ferment and distill*

@@sempertard The ink should give the distillate a unique character.

That reminds me of a product that was popular during prohibition in the USA. It was a block of dried grape juice concentrate with a clear "warning" telling you what process to avoid because it would turn it into wine.

proper savages

Electronics and drinking - what's not to like!

An AVE special ?

Clive should conduct this experiment on Saturday's live stream :D

Trust me, I'm with the government 😎

Hard part is carbonizing it since wine contains slight particles so it naturally fizzes up like hell when you start to decompress it..... Got to love experimenting with soda streams!

The Trampagne seems to take the CO2 just fine, but I would assume it's best to consume immediately, and in sufficient quantity. Hopefully we'll witness this on Saturday's stream.

On the subject of carbonation, my dad once carbonated a bottle of cheap store brand whisky. Would not recommend, that stuff was pretty bad to begin with, adding fizz made it quite vile.

I think it would work if Pixar could make Big Clive into a wisened elder lightning dragon with a beard who loves to experiment in a new sequel to that dragon movie that just came out.

Don't forget some sort of fire or explosion.

The LED's were visible and the ioniser was switched on but just out of shot

Maybe fermenting something, killing off the yeast at some point by bubbling ozone through it. Add some UV to really get the job done. Then distill and see what comes out in the end. Would be mildly dangerous (ozone and UV can be a bit nasty), but might not make great video material?

Dont forget to expose the contents to the Disko Shart to kill all bacteria

How can you say Aussie and Yellow tail at the same time?

Usually by chundering

Nothing is better than wine in a box... you get a free pillow.

@@mgb961 What does that mean????🤔

@@wobblysauce I like to fill a bottle labeled as a fancy wine with box wine when I have company. Most folk don't notice.

Or from France.

@@BigClive was that the aussie yellow tail 2 buck chuck ??

What's wrong with the hat?

@@captainchaos3053 nuffin muffins I approve ! Prolly because I own a pink one myself lol

Cool. I don't normally wear pink. I'm just not wired that way but I do like things that are just a little bit different.

Actually, I don't think that's too far off. It's in principle how they make non-alcoholic beer. But you have to do cold distilling for the best result.

I'm hoping so.

@@BigClive I must admit, your thumbnails have become a lot more amusing.

That were my thoughts as well, he basically made Grappa or Rakia!

In the livestreams he's mentioned that there is too many comments to respond, so he'll try and heart as many as possible.

And I'm mostly still managing to keep up.

So why were you tasting kangaroo piss? And don't say, "for scientific reasons".

Yeah...Clive could make a shaving brush from his own beard...but what would he use it for?