It really sums up the difference between them, doesn't it

@@MagisterMalleus Hahaha yeah

Different tastes, one will drink expensive plonk, the other will drink anything.

That was really funny!

Well it is entry level when you compare it with Ardbeg Uigeadail or Lagavulin 16 lol

"whisky teardowns" that's genius

@@pseudomemes5267 imagine Clive doing Chinese liquor teardown. I'd imagine it would not fair any better than the cheap chinesium electronics teardowns...

Outstanding 🤝

Complete with his clickitybait reaction face thumbnails. Ralfy, we need an intervention.

And Ralfy is reassembling/blending them back together! 😂

Yes. Thought the same too. Would be interesting to se more beverages analysed like this. Its just oddly interesting

@@danthefrst Literally what I just posted. This is insanely interesting. More so than I thought it would be.

Id be interested in doing this with multiple whiskeys and mixing it back together with the parts swapped :D

And not even heating! You can perform vacuum distillation as well, lowering pressure to cause the volatile elements to boil out. Distillation is simply separating fractions out of a substance via phase change and then (usually) re-concentrating them.

@@MSPatterson Well, you still need to supply heat energy to facilitate vaporisation, regardless at what temperature that happens.

Yes, the water distiller is set to heat until it goes over 100C then turn off. If you measure the temperature, or taste the tails, you can stop after alcohol distillation and not get the water too.

I think Ralphy may well have been avoiding using the term as there may be laws against doing that in the Isle of Man.

@@MSPatterson You can even use freezing to distill alcohol from a liquid. When you put an alcoholic liquid in the freezer the water will freeze first which gives you the chance to seperate the two. I think the result will be a "dirty" spirit, something BigClive would drink but not Ralfy.

His little brother isn't so little...

"which certainly can't be a bad thing for the KZfaq algorithm to promote this channel." Lets be realistic, the group who would watch this kind of joke video isn't actually a big overlap with people looking for real reviews of expensive whiskey

@@smeezekitty strange - you think it's a joke video ?

@@gordslater Not rally a joke video per se. I came from bigclives channel. And I really have no interest in alcohol reviews in general. Just found it entertaining to see a more skilled reviewer take on something that clive cooked up

It tastes like a peat bog fire, but I like it too. Have it with splash of water, it opens up and and is even more 3-alarm.

Port charlotte is much nicer

@@LucasChoate Room temperature. No water, no ice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Dude.... thats one hell of a description hahaha

@@Clan501-Scotland Add 2-3ml of water. Open it up.

Though it's a separation based on physical properties, not chemical reaction.

@@Anvilshocki thought 'chemical separations' still includes distillation.? in fact i though that was a majority of petroleum industry was based on. 'separations' dont usually involve chemical reactions, do they? usually what happens is you perform a chemical reaction that has various products and bi products, then the challenge at that point in the process is then devising a 'separation process' and that was what "chemical separations'' were?

@@Glaudge It's used in chemical industry, yes, but that doesn't make the process a chemical one. There is no change in the actual molecules, just their physical form (liquid vs. gas). Distillation first and foremost separates purely on physical properties. There ARE separation methods that involve chemical reactions, yes, but this is not one of them.

@@Anvilshock to say its "purely" physical properties is kind of being disingenuous. Every property a chemical can have could be considered a "physical" property because they all work off of physical interactions. A chemicals pH is just its physical ability to lose or gain H+ ions, its polarity is simply due to its physical arrangement of atoms, those are no more or less qualitative of a chemicals properties than its volatility or boiling point. for example in these distillations, each oil molecule is technically lighter than the ethanol, but ethanol has a lower packing density, so it's not like you are just sorting the compounds from smallest to biggest. The volatility and boiling point of any given compound is most certainly a chemical property and those are the properties at hand that determine how they get seperated for any given distillation.

@@Anvilshock so you take an engineering class where a quarter or more of the semester is distillation processes. what's the title of the class?

Lol 😆

Old style vacuum rectifier for spirits.

but so obviously brothers...

I imagine ralfy doesn’t think he has one.

Clive did give his tasting notes in his video. The clear liquid was an Amazon Rain forest that had exploded in the distillery. The brown liquid was tobacco smoke.

All clear spirits are made this way, all vodka.

Easy to understand when most of the price is taxes and marketing...

Its because most of the cost of cheap spirits is tax.

Wooden barrels and storage adds cost to whiskies. But it’s mainly tax.

@@Dreyno That would be pertinent if whiskey was vodka, but alas

Or we get a different version ...

@@jorgwunderlich-pfeiffer1985 possible but imho unlikely

Same in Sweden, no added colour in Select.

That sludge didn’t look like colour, hard to say what it was…

@@TheNewMediaoftheDawn Probably mostly barley oils and sugars that survived the original distillation along with some oils from the oak. I think the heating in the evaporator may have caramelized the sugars a little?

I watched you years ago before I ever heard of Clive when you used to have the fold up paper sign in front of you, then found Clive and watched for years and only now found out you are his brother after watching him (I ashamedly admit for 7 years) and not you. Will watch from now on - great to see my two favourite creators are brothers.

@ralfydotcom I came here to finally make a similar comment. Though, I've known you were brothers for years now. Watching your reviews around '09 - '12 served me well while employed at a liquor store. Years later I found Clive while looking up joule thief circuits. Then years later still, I believe it was on christmas or new years, he posted a video of the two of you walking along a stoney beach. I was floored! Still makes me smile sometimes... I've quite enjoyed these little experiments -- Always wondered what you would have if you properly distilled a keg (or more or less) of some plain ol' generic beer and barrel aged it (or cheated with chips and pressure). Would it be worth the experiment? Just awful or maybe OK? Surprising?! The world may never know.... ;-) Slainte!

@@JoshuaHeckathorn That's actually been done in Canada and it took 18 years of aging for it to turn out good! It's called: Glen Breton Alexander Keith's 18 Year Old Single Malt Whisky

I'm sure we could convince NileRed or Extractions and Ire to do it. Maybe Cody's Lab?

that's it

Smoothed it off, didn't it?

@@jeremywilliams5107 Smooth, but definitely lacks the body of a *Full Bridge* Rectified whiskey... Or, to REALLY -- pardon the pun -- bridge YT channels and almost come full -- unintentional that time -- circle... _"FOOL BRIDGE RECTIFIED"_ Mahdi/Clive Fully Rectified, Bridged Whiskey - "Copper colored and packed with the most Magic Smoke in the entire industry! (Now in Limited Edition PCB themed bottle.)" It's too bad YT doesn't let you do like Twatter and let me @BigClivedotcome and @electroBOOM so they can get to making this! (I've already done the branding and marketing pitch) haha

Beware of projectile ear wax while tasting : )

When tradition becomes doctrine we get stagnation. Tradition only serves as a placeholder for understanding: "We don't know why, but this method works really well.", whereas doctrine is the fallacy of the feeble minded: "We can't imagine a better way, so therefore none exists." Thus when the indoctrinated come to power experimentation and exploration becomes heresy.

Well, it's already separation into fractions. Only two fractions, mind, but still.

You mean the same as fractioning (fractioning tower) in the oil industry to produce petrol, paraffin etc from the crude oil.

Yes, when he was struggling I was shouting "Fractionating" at the screen

Interesting

Beat me to it! Distillation is simply controlled evaporation followed by controlled condensation - it's a common experiment kids do in secondary school. The difference here is the temperature: Clive has no control over this with his water purifier, which is only set to temperatures for water. As such he cannot control the distillation and can't separate all the various different parts from the whiskey; he only gets two products at the end.

When you "rectify" crude petroleum, you call it cracking.

@@markbullock3741 You are misinformed. Rectification is still "just" fractional distillation, even for crude. Cracking is chemically altering parts of the crude, namely breaking longer carbon chains into shorter ones.

@@Anvilshock Thanks

imagine my surprise when I was watching both channels, to see at some point do a video together.... my mind was blown.

I agree. These are quite interesting.

Yes.

Deconstructive rectification would be the exact term. Anyhoos, loved this. As Ralfy made the face about Irish Cream (wonderful face that said it all), I would like to share my version of it. Melt down your favourite dark origin chocolate into fresh cream, pour in whisky, drink warm on a chilly night under the stars.

Hear Hear