This old chemistry trick can PROOF-UP whiskey

We post this they watched this video recently from the action lab. He was using isopropyl alcohol And salt some coloring from a marker so you could see how the separation occurs, but can you do that with whiskey? Whoa now, maybe the salting out process is just for lab rats and not whiskey nerds Holy hell. Oh my god maybe Dudes it's already happening This is so much better of a response that I could have actually imagined if we really can't include this That might be one of the best scotches This is an attempt to use chemistry to up that proof in the whiskey And we have three attempts. Hopefully the first two work because the third kind of salt is a kill your ass kind of salt hazardous if it works it should Theoretically allegedly be okay for me to sample because if it works, it's all right. We'll see first Okay, uh the salt. All right this and First time we're gonna do just straight up table salt If you hear licking in the background, we have a doof in the room like any good lab You have to have animals This is really full. Hopefully this salt doesn't take all the room and give us a spill Dude is this gonna overflow? No The guy in the action lab he was using isopropyl alcohol but I'm, really hoping this gives us some kind of result Because if we get to this final stage of salt You can't drink it. You keep saying you're gonna sample it. Like I I got a sample. No, I've looked at it We'll see look this may work right if we get to the final step. It's knocking off the proof It's pulling all of the water out It's going to be pure alcohol and the chemical you can't consume But the flavor though Look man, look i'm not don't try this at home But it's a maddening experience whenever you have that whiskey that is just heartbreaking because you know that whiskey wants to give you more But you know for a variety of reasons distilleries. This is not doing anything You know, they they have more profit if they proof a whiskey down and it just so happens that the mass market out there They like a gentler softer Smoother whiskey with more water down, but you want that proof. This is dissolving a bit Hmm It's not doing this salting out the product. You don't see the different phases of Ethanol layer and water layer table salt sodium chloride. That's a no-go. We're gonna move on to ammonium sulfate It's using fertilizer, which is kind of like going into food Okay, here we go These are just big fat grains ammonium sulfate It's a more aggressive salt, but we really want to basically kick off this civil war between the ethanol And the water so they don't like each other they separate effectively giving you a higher proof Something i'm not sure at that point you could even call it a whiskey anymore Okay, yeah that barely even got cloudy typically in salting out you're gonna have this cloudy liquid that you can see separate But this isn't even getting cloudy. So that leaves us with the uh the poison Yeah Do we don't have rubber gloves or something? This is the one that could get us in trouble If we're not very careful about every step of handling this stuff if it works, then all the the poison Should be down at the bottom separate from the spirit the ethanol at the top We're starting with about a 125 proof here Okay, this is the bad one death jar. Yeah death funnel Is it just me or does that look darker than it did when we started Oh, it looks a lot darker. Oh, wow. Yeah, you can see it next to the other ones Weird. Oh my the heat Is it hot the heat coming off of this feel that we should probably take that What the heck? All right. Hold on. This is a chunk at the bottom, by the way, dude, it's getting darker It looks like paint varnish. Oh my gosh, it's nice and tight Wow these chunks really don't want to let go there may be some solid residue on the bottom I'm, not too concerned about that because the poison stuff should be living on the bottom. It should just be giving us Ethanol whiskey stuff on top more of a concentration a higher proof for the love of god people don't try this at home Fortunately, i'm not at home Very cloudy big chunk right there. Give me a spoon to break this up, please because I need this solid I need the solid down low. Oh, yeah So i'm getting the solids away from the top Nice and cloudy so far Optimistic that we have this much cloudiness this much change in color. Let's get it. Oh dudes. It's already happening Are you kidding me? phase Shifting that transformation that is kicking off Let's see. What happened is just giving it a little bit more time Let's give it a 30. We're gonna time lapse this for like half an hour. See if anything changes. I think the light is just Illuminating it from this way Yeah, that's pretty good It is pulling the ethanol up and the water out it's kicking off a little civil war between those two liquids this episode brought to you By mando mando It's really nice Smelling deodorant that is designed to last a super long time It smells really good. That one is the bourbon leather So like this is you know, especially formulated for dudes out there supposed to block Your odor all day and then you control it for up to 72 hours which you know is one of those things where that's a big number does it work I put on the Mando the 72 hour the deodorant under em deodorant. Yeah, and I didn't shower And I didn't uh, you know reapply or anything one single day do people go Let's talk. This is in like walmart. This is in target. 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Salty water down here and it's so interesting when you go just on this mucky water It does look like you dove into a pond or something and are trying to see through goggles Okay, let's see what this like. Yeah blast it. Yeah You seeing that? It looks like an oil and water type of deal The craziest part about it to me is that it stays together. Yeah, like what you just did all that I was worried about handling it at first, but it all it's fully I don't know if it's fully separated But it's real separated and it wants to stay that way Didn't turn on What do we have? 162.4 That is So that was a blend of woodford reserve and benchmark full proof, okay, okay This worked it did. Um, let's try with some different proof whiskies Can we take a lower proof whiskey that you wish was higher proof that happens in scotch all the time like a glenmorengi Let's do glenmorengi. Let's do something higher proof. Yeah, what's that? Speak of the higher proof the 132 on the jack daniels barrel proof. Okay Mind your butts And we do need to give this a shake. I would say vigorously stir first, man. It clumps I don't like that at all Whose idea was it to stir this? This is horrible. This is bad. This is Wow Okay, maybe we just go to the shake you're converted i'm converted quick because it all clumps together team shake It's immediately darker. Yeah, it is do its thing Super cloudy and then already just within seconds. Whoa looks like it's moving down. Wow. Okay. Let's check that out No, you should not drink this. This is a We need to compare Somebody has to continuously remind people don't try this at home, please next up glenmorengi So we're gonna have some stickage to the inside of the funnel because it's wet from the alcohol I mean you can kind of you want me to just freeball it Nobody's asking you to do that. You want me to freeball it? Nobody is saying those words except you I hear a lot of people in the comments saying freeball it ready It's already getting dark It's not getting hot hot just very warm. Yeah. Okay. Let's get in here see Wow, this one's doing something weird where it's like stuck in the middle. Yeah, what is going on here? I wonder if that's gonna yeah, there's there's multiple, you know what in the in the bourbon There was a very very thin like tan layer right there Between the light poison salty water and then the what supposedly is more pure ethanol But that floater is staying at roughly the same spot. It's just slightly getting darker and darker So interesting Well a lot of white down here as opposed to this one is just yellow and this started with more more powder Yeah, you see less now. Yeah, and this one's clumpier i'm thinking right now The difference between new oak barrels and used barrels. Okay, if this is like tannin dark Lignin like wood the things that are going to come from the barrel the char the freshly charred barrel You're putting in the spirit. This is a used barrel. So it has less of that to pull out You know what? Let's do a fireball. Why not? and What's this sticky from the sugar? With something that clearly has actual sugar in it. Absolutely not no clue what's about to happen It's getting pulled through Wait go back to this. Yeah There's a crater that's happening in the middle of it. It keeps pulling more and more of it right down in there. Yeah More and There may be so much goop In the fireball that it's not giving that clear quick separation that we were seeing in the whiskey whiskeys All right, let's do a quick time lapse on here. Yeah, and then we will have sunny taste test every single one There is technically a line that you were supposed to hit on this and that's total nonsense you can it's a plunger so it'll just kind of suck up and absorb and give you a Very accurate reading even if it's not perfect. Okay, so I don't want to put that sugary nonsense inside. No, we're not. Yeah, that's That is super goopy and weird. You might be able to eat that like a candy with the jack daniels 132 proof we're trying to beat 132 proof. All right, can we be 132? Don't go too deep. Here we go Holy hell, dude For just a second for just a moment It flashed at 184. This is so much better of a response that I could have actually imagined The the ethanol and the water are absolutely Aggressively being separated that salted out water is just being stripped away from the ethanol layer Just leaving behind ethanol and hopefully that toxic Salty layer is just going to be down at the bottom. This is so interesting Okay, glenn marangi next. All right, trying to be 43 that's going to be 86 proof Can rex and sunny multiply by two? It's a very different episode Holy hell, oh my god, that's 174 proof glenn moranji people would pay We made 174 proof Uh, I think the good people of glenn moranji would take issue with us calling this glenn moranji Now i'm starting to want to try it this is forbidden scotch now, oh, yeah, this is amazing. All right, so we have our jack daniels pour Right here and we'll do a little comparison very carefully surgically removing the ethanol Layer from the top. What is this going to taste like? We've done the research the the Probability of it being like an actual health situation The trace amounts that we're going to be taking i'm going to be spitting actually but if we consumed All of that in the bottom. Yeah, that would be potentially a deadly situation Yes, you can clearly see the separation has occurred. We're going to take from the top where it is Separate just the very smallest amount to taste it So we have done the background research to make sure that we're not going to get rushed to a hospital Look, there's two parts of this number one. Don't try this at home. Number two. We might get diarrhea Let's find out are we going for it? Let's go for it, dude. Let's see what this looks like Okay, I think that is an adequate amount, okay Doing these one at a time. Yeah, and you know what? We got a banana and a doof Buddy boy. How are you guys? Look at him. Look at him. That's a good doof right there. That's a quality. Oh wow I really like that. Yeah, lovely. Okay, it's almost worse to start with something good very oak forward Jack daniels gives you a lot of heat and a lot of like maturation. This is a delightful pour. You haven't noticed this yet Here we go Whoa, that smells like chemicals. Yeah Y'all that smells like something you shouldn't put in your mouth. Yeah. No, this is uh, this was taken behind a woodshed and beaten to death with all of the used public restroom cleaning equipment The stuff that'll take the paint off a wall It almost smells like a cleaning product. Yeah, like it really this is horrible That being said All right, this was my rinsing. Yeah, let me grab a i'm doing the dot of the tongue Yeah, i'm just placing my tongue against it quickly and then i'm gonna drink some water. There we go Wait, hold on I hate everything i'm about to say. I know what you're gonna say. It's not bad I the most Radically different setup from nose to palate but that core essence of jack daniels not cranked to 11 cranked to like 50. Yeah broke the no broke the dial broke the measurement A lot of I mean don't get me wrong. It was oversimplified It was just that core core essence, but i'm not hating The result it's not on the nose at all. And also you're talking about the heat the perceived warmth It feels like it's warmed up. Oh, yeah, like the temperature feels like it's heated up the moment. It hits your tongue. It's just Okay, don't do this doll No, really don't but the fact that this was totally different from the nose and it is more recognizably Dude I would go as far as to say that Blinding these if it's going to strip it down to one note I'd know it's a brown form and product based off the banana because that just punched me in the face when more energy This is gonna taste like water now. This is so fruity and This is water right now. Yeah No, there's nothing here I could I could chug lenmore and g just like this tea There'd be no difference after hitting that much heat. Look at the wiggle on that thing I was so worried about moving any single one of these. Yeah, but the moment you start doing it It just stays together like a jello shot. There we go. God. It just looks like bad whiskey First the nose here. This is glenmore ng crank. Okay, one more on the nose on the misery It's a very different nose. It still has that cleaning product element totally in the background. Yeah, okay Man, just the burn coming off that though. Cheers We post this Don't do this don't do this it's thick you can feel like the thickness of it the heat the flavors all get cranked up I don't want to say any of this this has a focus and concentration That i've never found in scotch because you have such a delicate asian character To get this level of intensity people peen up their scotch and then you like bomb your palate This is a punch in the face in a way Okay Like really though no like actually don't do this i'm gonna finish this but don't do it He's not gonna he's not gonna finish this. He's not gonna finish this. What the **** dude? That happened One more go back to the nose though. I know. Oh, I know It's a red kidney green You honestly like just a dot on the tongue don't well You don't have to drink it because you're very self-conscious about health and all that bit But if you want something really good in your life that you shouldn't have that actually smells good i'm saying i'm saying I I think the new I think the new oak is really too much for this process It's like chocolate if you made it with goat milk Like it's kind of good. It's kind of like like goatee I'm, not getting that at all like That's terrible it is So much heat it's holy hell it's it's holy I I I we really can't include this That might be one of the best scotches I haven't had a crazy lineup of vertical scotch in my life That is the most intensive interesting scotch i've ever had the most it's the scotchiest scotch ever scotch ever ever This makes it it takes like this ball of scotch and then it does like this black hole Gravitational just critically just crunching it down. It's so condensed. Yeah, it's so thick. Okay now it's kind of like Fruit with no cheese. No, why the goat? All right. All right, you put goat cheese on fruit Put a little couple chocolates in there. Give me put it in a basket. Give it to somebody just don't try it Just don't do it This is one of those episodes where i'm obligated to say don't try this at home If you get some very key critical parts of this process wrong that it is legitimately dangerous