How It's Made: Grappa 

Thank you Science Channel for showing our distillery and how we make grappa! If you come to Italy, come visit us! Cheers and enjoy grappa responsibly!

A classic, after a big meal or during the worst of winter... a grappa warms your heart!

I remember as a child my father and his friends making their own grappa illegally with a lot of equipment I wondered what the hell was about. Now I am amazed they managed to do it with so little.

I didn't even know Grappa existed until I watched this video.

Italian after making wine: wait we still have the grapes tho what do we do with them Italian making grappa: *WINE 2*

"Traditionally an after dinner drink" Me, an intellectual, sitting down for breakfast "technically it's after dinner" or maybe I'm just an alcoholic.

Just fyi for anyone wanting to try grappa, it's a digestivo, meant to be drank after a big meal. Don't go burning a hole in your stomach!

"We made alcohol out of these grapes, now we've got a bunch of grape leftovers. Should we just use it as cattle feed?" "Nah, let's see if it can be used to make a different alcohol."

Ooh, Nonino is the good stuff. Excellent choice!

Man, I love grappa. For anyone with stomach problems, I highly recommend it. The very best digestif available in my opinion. Absolutely sovereign for that heavy feeling in your stomach after a meal. Grappa is for a long conversation after a big meal while your sitting in front of a fireplace. Serve it in a snifter and let your hand warm it. Sip it slowly and savor the raisins, cherries, prunes, and apricots in the nose. Let it sit on your tongue for a while and inhale before you swallow. It’s an amazing drink meant to be enjoyed sparingly. For all the commenters going on about “bitter” “tastes like battery acid” or “gasoline”: this is not a tequila shot. This is not for your local frat party. It’s not for everyone, I’ve served it to many people and some like it and some hated it. It’s an acquired taste. I recommend not giving up on it after the first try. My wife shared your opinion and now she loves it, craves it even. It’s the second most popular drink in our cabinet after bourbon. But don’t try to shoot it or it’ll go down like everclear. This is for sitting, sipping and savoring, not dancing at the club.

I really like it when all the parts of something are used, so the fact that not only does the grape juice get used, but the stems are used and the casings and seeds are also used is really nice!

This dude is like Pitt in Inglorious Bastards. "Bawnjerno, a river der chee"

At first when he mentioned pumice, I thought he was referring to the rock that floats on water

And what is left over after making Grappa becomes Mad Dog 20/20…

This is what you toast with when you've discovered the Fifth Element.

I was a bartender for 10 + years and Grandppa is like gasoline. Super strong!

We want "How's it made: How's it made videos"

Barrel aged Grappa is the best after a big meal. Love that brand's name, "Grandpa's Chardonnay" 😃

thank you for the video. i tried some grappa my friends father made, and i loved it. i would really like to make some

Added into my bucket list 💪😅

My late father used to make his own but his favorite brew was distilled from Williams' bon chretien pears.

In Portugal we call it, Agua Ardente. We have really good and strong Grappa in Portugal.

I thought the title said "how its made, GRANDPA"

Quality grappa is amazing

I tasted grappa for the first time on an aircraft from Italy back to South Africa in 1975. Whew, powerful stuff !

In Portugal we call it aguardente or bagaço. It's served as a digestive after a meal or after the coffee taken after a meal!

Never knew this existed till now. I want find some and try it

This is a true sipping drink.

My roommate went to Croatia for study abroad and he said grappa is super popular there. They even use a really strong version as a sort of medicine.

Beautiful

Grappa is a great!!! 💥😘💞

"You'll have to excuse us, we've been having grain with Grappa"

Grappa is good stuff

What parts of Italy is Grappa made? And what a fascinating process, thank you for this post, Belismo... I've never tried this...? 👍👍👍🌵😎🇺🇸🇮🇹 👍👍👍Graci!!

I've never had a Grappa I liked. And I like lots of spirits!

I can assure you Italians don’t say Salute, they say sa-lù-te

So grappa is the fancier Italian version of MadDog 2020

After dinner drink, that I like. Thank you Italy.

In Serbia, from grapes and juice we make rakija ( lozovaca ). From juice ( later wine ) we make vinjak. From grape residue ( like they make grappa ) we make komovica. Quality: 1. Vinjak 2. Lozovaca 3. Komovica

"As the Italians say.. salut." Said no Italian ever

NONINO one of the BEST !

I'm hoping Grappa is the next thing. There are a lot these alcohols around the world that were just local unrefined stuff but once the producers know if you want the rest of the world to buy, you have to make it better. Mezcal and Tequila were like that. Now I like local Mezcal and Tequila but for most people it's too rough and tough so for those types, they need to distill it more. I love hot Grappa, not everybody does though.

I used to work in a restaurant owned by a Galician family, I can't stand Grappa just the smell of it makes me gag but I had to serve it constantly as it was the standard complimentary drink...

I like to ad grappa in my expresso coffee after dinner. I tried american grappa that was aged in left over bourban America barrels that was used to age bourban.

Currently stationed here....... ...i Love my grappa

This music is excellently groovy

The bottles look like they could be filled a bit more... but a great video.

I spent the first half of this video trying to wrap my mind around the idea of making alcohol from hummus. 😂

I first heard about Grappa while reading The Godfather novel..some 20 years back..!!

I won't forgive myself for spitting all those skins and seeds into the garbage after eating my grapes. Think of all the grappa I could have made !

👍👍good

Love Grappa but good lord it knocks your head off

It used to be a poor man's drink now there are very nice aged variants. If you didn't like it, you likely drank a cheaper brand.

Stopped drinking and smoking years ago but I keep watching these liquor documentaries 😅

Fun fact: The german word for "fries" or in UK "chips" is "pommes" and is pronounced exactly as "pomace", the stuff grappa is made from. So in germany order "pommes" and you get potato fries. You're welcome. (The complete order should be: "Eine grosse pommes und eine currywurst rot-weiss, bitte" - practice that for the next lesson... )

i had it once. its like fucking fire. bitter, astringent, spicy, smoky fire.

You can smell these distilleries 100 yards out

Now I want to try this grappa. Where's the best place to buy?

Had some grappa in Italy after dinner once, ‘try some of this’ my Italian friend said, I thought the lining of my throat was stripped away….Never again!!! 😖😫

Ahhhh Grappa😂🤣😂🤣 1989 Zurich (Christmas party) only time in my life where I alcohol poisoned 🤮 myself.

In croatian region of Herzegovina we also make this.

Watching this two glasses of grappa in on a lonely monday night

I’d like to know where to buy it. None of my local stores sell it.

So its waste being turn into gold....

Lived in Italy for 4 years, the video does not do the effect of Grappa Justice

How It's Made: Grandpa Admit it. You thought it said that too.

Yes you can make Grappa - grape brandy from the whole grape, without previously extract the juice for wine. It is how we make it in Macedonia.

Ohhhhhhh...🤩

Grappa? I hardly know ’er!

This show still comes on?

Grappa (Italiana or Greek) and Raki are really good warm with honey

Myślałem że to GRAPPA ICE

Please share with me your comparisons of grappa to brandy?

Surprised to see so many people disliking grappa. Must be hard to get the good stuff huh

That's why Balkan Grappa is better, they use don't extract the sugar from the grape, and after pressed and fermented is distilled, which means no added sugar.

I use cheap grappa to clean stuff , smells awesome 😜

Good job to that guy for getting first

I drink my grappa through a beer bong.

Seems like it's more of a steam extraction than a distillation.

This is what we in Serbia call Vinjak.

Got a bottle of this and had to Google it

I had Grappa once, at the Palm in D.C. It smelt of kerocene.

Cheers

Well, now i know what grappa is.

a form of recycling that is actually successful, profitable 👍👍

Now I know how to make rotgut.

Grappa white lightning!!

Cool

Had one in Capo do ponte Italy with infused herbs! Literally felt fire 🔥 in throat! Just amazing Stuff!

4:01 this is clearly a filling machine

Lol, I first read it as “Grandpa”

!'m an Italian and grappas kinda like bourbon for Americans in a way

Can you make a "How they make babies?" for my son. Thanks

I bought a bottle of grappa after discovering this video. I gave away the bottle after trying it.

Your videos inspired me to make my own youtube channel 💓

“As the Italians say, ‘SaLUtE.’”

The old man has probably seen some things.

Huh. This is actually the same way you make rakija. Well, you can make rakija out of many different kinds of pumice but grape pumice is the most commonly used one.

In Himachal this is called kalga water.

4:58 we say salute not salut 😀