We Brita filter a bunch of drinks and see what they taste like. WARNING: Grossness happens ▶ Subscribe, to Max!! ru-vid.com... ▶ Subscribe, to Ali!! ru-vid.com?s... -----
+Ali Spagnola Methinks all of our minds are still blown. Thanx for satisfying a lot of people's curiosity. And for stomaching that awful swill known as Clamato.
HI. YES. I'M EVEN ANGRIER NOW THAT SOMEONE HAS POINTED OUT THAT I'M JUST AN ANGRY KID WITH A COMPUTER, TRYING TO MAKE EVERYONE ELSE FEEL BAD BECAUSE I CLICKED A LINK.
I have been doing this for years now. My own experimentation has found rum and vodka to be the best liquors to filter as they do not depend on botanical oils or "impurities" to give it it's flavor. Gin and tequila didn't work out as the essential oils that were responsible for the flavor of gin were removed, and tequila, while smoother, tasted flat. Neutral spirits however work fantastic. My recent go to has been cheap 151 rum ($12/L) filtered twice tastes like the smoothest, finest high octane rocket fuel you never had, plus it only takes an ounce of it in 11oz of diet root beer to make an amazingly tasty drink.
+jobloe3393 No the alcohol is going through, however the impurities that you normally taste are not. A brita filter is essentially an activated charcoal filter which is what is used to filter spirits after they are distilled. The problem arises because the alcohol no longer tastes like alcohol because it has little to no "burn" resulting in over drinking and nasty hangovers. Ask me how I know.
What th'.... I can't believe you guys... [and yet I can]. This was hilarious! What I really can't believe is it is four years old and hasn't been offered up in my feed before now!
3 years later to let you know that yes, the alcohol content remains the same! Spirits are filtered generally with charcoal (vodka especially tastes better the more it is filtered, so the high shelf stuff will usually be filtered many times vs the cheap stuff).
What a minute- that one drunk cooking chick names harto or something like that just RECENTLY made a video just like this, and of course got millions of views.. she stole your idea! I’m glad your channel is finally picking up bc you are such an awesome and positive energetic person. You definitely motivate me ✌🏼❤️🌈
+Ali Spagnola please don't. I don't apreciate videos of you advertising products and trying to look "sciencey" . That is seriously not cool, or you know what you are doing or your tests besome useless...
"BRITA has been asked about filtering alcohol before and our understanding (although we do not run tests on this) is that there may be a very slight reduction in alcohol content if filtered through a BRITA cartridge but the ion exchange resin will not have an effect on alcohol."
simple question, Ali ...did you change the Brita filter between each flavored drink ...? ... if not, you just did a pro Brita filter video ! ...contact Brita for your endorsement royalty ...
+Alexander Groom That filter stored way more water than the size suggests then. Also they aren't saying it tastes diluted, they are saying all the flavor that isn't water is gone
+Alexander Groom I don't know the specifics of the design of Brita activated carbon cartridges, nor do I know anything about the specific type of activated carbon they use, but that shouldn't matter. Nowhere near enough water should be retained inside the cartridge to dilute beverages to the point where they all taste like water. The standard design of an activated carbon filter is to just have fluid flow through it, the carbon will react and absorb with many chemicals. Even running something through a previously used filter shouldn't leach out any chemicals from the carbon. You need heavily used carbon filters before leaching occurs. And you need pretty specific chemistry before any desorption happens. Activated carbon filters are very good at what they do, and they do last a long time before all the carbon is spent and needs to be cleaned and recharged or replaced. If the activated carbon is packed so densely that water takes hours to seep through, then that's just poor design. What she should have done is run a few cups of water through the filter between each experiment instead.
that was freakin awesome.... laughing my ass off at work.... but you know what you forgot to do..... drum roll please.... urine... you have to do it and see if it taste like.... drum roll.... water ;)) lol.. cheers, Ricco
Did you change the filters for each trial? It doesn't appear so. I'd guess that makes some difference. Also, in the past I've heard putting vodka through a Brita filter makes it more pure, ergo better vodka. Guessing this video is contrary evidence.
Vodka isn't supposed to have a flavor. People have been turning bottom shelf vodka into mid-shelf and mid-shelf into almost top shelf for years by running it through a Brita filter, usually several times
I was reading my youngest 2 books and missed the comment time. oh and making up bedtime songs for him. anyway, this was very interesting. I would like to know about the alcohol content as well because my husband can not drink fizzy stuff and this would be perfect!
I wonder if stuff would taste less like water if you drank the filtered liquid first. If you just drank the full strength of course filtered tastes watery in comparison, but if you taste the filtered first my be you'd taste some slight favor before the full version overwhelms your taste buds.
A question of alcoholic curiosity: What percent ABV was the vodka that you sent through the filter? I wonder because if it was 40% alcohol by volume and you got nearly the same volume out that you put in, then the alcolhol was not entirely removed, or even mostly so for that mater.
Really good vodka should taste like nothing. Internet lore that has been around for a while: you can take really cheap vodka and filter it through a britta and make it into really good vodka.
Well I want to hear them subscribed I said I went ahead and subscribed I don't know how much good it will do considering mine is the first comment in 3 years!!!!
