Just a safety note to people and a warning for anyone you serve this too, don't drink this until all the dry ice is sublimated away, if you swallow dry ice you can really damage your throat/stomach.

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In my bar, soda drinks are expired , so it changes color by itself

There's an Australian product called Ink Dry Gin that's been around for a couple years now, and uses the Butterfly Pea Flower as one of its botanicals. Delicious gin and also very easy to incorporate into cocktails as it floats quite easily on top of citrus elements. Came up with a drink I call Pretty In Ink, which has 20mL Lemon, 10mL Simple Syrup, 15mL Limoncello and a couple dashes of orange Bitters as the bottom layer, then 45mL of the Ink Gin stirred down and layered on top. Serve it a posh champagne glass so the layering is very obvious, and serve it with some sort of stirring implement (I like an orange twist on a cocktail pick). That way the customer gets to see the two layers and then watch as they stir the drink and it turns from yellow and purple to bright pink.

If you keep the cocktail in the dry ice, but don't add the citric acid, it will eventually turn purple. You could see it starting when it was poured out for the "decanter." The carbon dioxide from the dry ice is dissolving into the fluid creating carbonic acid lowering the pH.

Cool stuff! Love the oil & vinegar container thing! In future, if you want to show off the color of a transparent liquid as in this video, having a white background behind the glass will make the colors easier to see. So for your format something like a white shirt, cummerbund, or apron would help sell the color change visual without any big workflow changes.

The Colour doesn't come from a pigment. It's a Molecule called Anthocyanin which is blue in neutral and basic solutions, but is changing it's colour to purple in an acidic environment. That happens because the molecules structure lets it absorb the red spectrum of the light which makes it look blue and with a changing pH the structure changes aswell. The new structure now absorbs more of the blue spectrum which makes it appear red/purple.

I dont even realy like “drink” and I don’t make any of these cocktails but... his vids are so enjoyable to watch Keep up the good work

Man you are an artiest pure art all the best cheers

I have seen so many cocktail videos in the last 3/4 years. This channel is directly on point..the visuals are amazing. The whole vibe is calm too.

I am blown away by this video. I never knew making cocktails had so much to do with chemistry (my favorite science) please do more of this!

You deserve so much more love for your informed and concise videos. Keep it up!

I’m blown away by this one! Just wow!

Very nice execution on this one

The art of the cocktail is magnificent keep up the good work sir.

I really enjoy this new faucet you’re giving cocktails: chemistry and different techniques: the smoke bomb, the whipper, this... keep the bar high man!

This channel is so thoroughly enjoyable! Keep up the good work!

Very cool presentation! I love the use of the cruet and dry ice. Great work man, I'm sorry to hear about the demonetization.

I really appreciate your videos. Your passion for this craft is apparent and compelling. I really enjoy watching your videos- I’m just sorry I didn’t know it existed until I saw your cameo on Binging with Babish.

Oh I’m glad that I refreshed my feed for some quality content.

An amazing video as always. I hope I'll be able to setup a bar someday in the near future, this channel is filled to the brim with info!

That is such a pretty drink. I have a soft spot for blue drinks, and this one really pleases me.

I see your videos before sleep because your voice is soo deep and so relaxing

This video is amazing in many ways. Thanks for this!

Such an underrated channel... Its so awesome and the quality is so damm godlike. I'm not that kind of alcohol fan but i def. need to say that i will try every goddamm type of special cocktail of this channel!

Glad you're back! Cool stuff!

This is so cool, I've never heard of Butterfly Pea Flower Tea, but holy crap I want some now, that looks so good.

Very clever! Never heard of that tea before, amazing stuff!

The Empress 1908 Gin produced in Victoria BC, Canada is made with butterfly pea blossoms. Looks just like that vibrant indigo, and changes colour when you mix with tonic or citrus juice. It tastes crisp, and delightful. An absolute treat for your taste buds and eyes!

Beautiful cocktail, great video!

I think Corrine Leigh used that tea in a video for galaxy lemonade - basically making what could be called an iced lemon tea out of it that turns pink when the lemon is added to the blue tea. It's cool to know of at least one natural blue colouring, even if it changes colour with acid. Natural blue foods are almost non-existent and the few that exist tend to be like blueberries - in reality they are only blue on the surface and really purple underneath.

Four Pillars factory is in my state in Melbourne, 10 minutes down the road. Very good product. Aussie!

This is absolutely amazing!!!

Cool technique! Very insightful video. Look forward to giving it a shot.

This is beautiful dude great job!

Wow just finished titration today and now this!

That's a pretty cool cocktail right there

Just gave this one a try (without the dry ice) and damn, I was impressed.

Great video. Reminded me of this gin we have in Germany "The Illusionist" - might use the same flower

Amazing, of sure! The gin must give a unique floral smell, while the citric acid must give a refreshing taste. The drink is clearly made for Halloween, but it will nice in a hot day. I think that changing the dry ice for a mint or peppermint leaves at the rim of the glass would be as much as beautiful.

Awesome! Very cool drink

Amazing!!! Nice vid!

Really nice!

Amazing cocktail!!!

Love this!!!!!

HA! I just got this pea flower tea a month ago because I was fascinated by the color change (and the fact that this indicator is more palatable than most). You'll have to step up your game by releasing more content :)

Hooray for science!!

Is the slow-motion part of the recipe or can that be skipped?

Awesome drink

I love the music in these videos :)!

Definitely going to try this. Always looking for an excuse to buy more exotic glassware!

Amazing Content

Terrific!

I love your channel

We got peaflower at work gonna try it

nick is awesome!

that's an excellent technique, we can get the same result with ascorbic acid?

A friend of mine uses a whole Punchbowl to make His "Ritual of Black Death" it's basically a show mixing of a Mai-Tai that he finishes of with Blue Curacao instead of tripple sec so the whole bowl turns pitch black in an instant, not as flashy as this but still pretty fun to watch

Thank you i've been looking for a video like this to prove a theory of mine. The indicator responsible is anthocyanine (most likely, am not completely sober at this point in time). For those of you that aren't swimming in clitoris it will be nice to know that anthocyanine is also in large quantities in red cabbage, just dry it in the oven and use it just like your fave female Body part in the video

Mind blown.

Oh man, that's so cool. I definitely need to try this sometime. Sorry about it being demonitized though. :(

The dry ice would also server to change the color. As the CO2 sublimates, it will react with the water to create carbonic acid. Im guessing that you might need to put a bunch in to actually change the color appreciably. Really cool idea.

Awesome video and cocktail! Sorry it got demonetized 😕

Great video! How do you manage to get so much fog out of the ice? I tried it and due to the low temp of the drink, the fog was minimal.

Would it work to freeze the cirtric acid and add the ice cube to the cocktail and let it change color over time (with the metling ice cube)?

Cool video! For a mocktail version, would soda/sparkling water work as a sub for gin?

If you all noted, it started to take a purple color even before he added the citric acid solution. This is because the Carbon Dioxide dissolved into the beverage forming another acid, Carbonic Acid I believe, and made it slightly more acidic. This is the same reason Seltzer or Soda water taste slightly sour.

Great video but just wondering how the tea itself tastes. Is it as good as it is cool looking?

M from India n I really like ur videos....kindly upload some videos where v can find ingredients which r easily available

I saw an interview with Andrew Rea where he talked about a drink he made called the Flaming Canadian and id be really interested to see it made

Are there other edible indicators that can be used in drinks that have a more dramatic color change?

man i was worried you made a red cabbage juice cocktail and i was worried for a minute, god i dont want to think about what that would have tasted like.

You get a lot of your glassware from world market? I work there and i recognize a lot of the stuff like that oil cruet and your flip top bottles, even your bamboo knot picks and bar spoons

Does anyone have an idea for how to combine this with the absinthe effect? It would be cool to get a color change and an opacity.

Is the flower featured in the video used in the making of blue litmus paper?

How would infusing the gin with the tea work? Would it still have the desired effect and how much do you think you would need? Also, I love your channel and your work, please keep it up!

Is there any cocktails that use calvados that you can show us?

Hi! I am planning to serve this drink on my birthday next week. How much gin did you use here? Thanks!

That's super neat, and we got to see some tea on the channel! Are there any other notable cocktails or suggestions for using tea in cocktails?

What do u do after u use the stuff

nice

are there any coctails that can happen to work like iodine clock? i mean constanly changing the color?

I tried to make this and had to make a little alterations since the tea I used wasn't concentrated enough. The main part being I made the blue tea into a syrup with 1/1 simple syrup. Then made it like a negroni with 1 part syrup, 1 part gin, 1 part triple sec. Stir and strain into rocks glass, squeeze a lemon wedge into the glass and stir Infront of the customer. You get a smooth and delicious cocktail

How was the tea by itself? is it worth getting just to drink?

I’ve been thinking about a cocktail using the Butterfly P flower’s for a while and was thinking if you make a ice cube that is hollow and put the citric acid inside that and then place the ice cubes like that into the blue cocktail is the I smelt it would then slowly release the citric acid and therefore slowly change the colour of the cocktail?

Dry ice can also increase the acidity of the liquid of its sublimating in, something to consider.

So prettyyyyy! 😘

When I saw the title and the colour of the drink, I assumed you would be using red cabbage. The tea makes way more sense.

can you make the Kevin heart's pill his muffin cap back blue 🍸

Youre a Cocktail god :D

this was sick af

These vids are so interesting to watch, and I don’t even drink 😂

So if I were to use lemon juice would the color still change ?

You keep knocking these out of the park Nick, keep it up!

is there an alternative to over-proof spirit?

So what's the name of the cocktail?

I guess that if I let the flowers steap for less time or simple add less of them with the same amount of water, I will get a lighter blue and a more clear tea right?

Is there a way to make this in a non alcoholic variety?

Can you do it in different colors?

nice, I'm colorblind