We Taste Tested Our Swamp Water Seltzer… And It Shocked Us -

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It’s finally time to taste test the legendary “Swamp Water” hard seltzer experiment 🍻😂
After brewing, cold crashing, bottling, and flavoring this homemade hard seltzer, Carla and I finally sit down to se …
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We're doing the taste test of the swamp water
seltzer
this is uh
My woman my fiancee the lady who puts up with me puts up with big rob
She's got me drinking out of a wine glass, which very rare say hi carla. This is carla. Hi everybody
We're doing the uh taste test guys, we call it the swamp water, but it's pretty clear
So it's actually not going to be swamp water. I don't think this one is the uh
Can't read my writing
Bb brewer's best black cherry three quarters of teaspoons
So they all know what it is because they saw the bottling video ready for the nice beer to get going
I think you want to say before we do this. No, let's go. It should be a nice pop if not with ruin from the get-go
Nice nice
Would you like to do the honors or i'll do it for you? You do it. Okay
Okay
There we go. Very exciting. You say when I always fear more. Oh, that's nice color
Not bad. There's a little yellow tint. Keep going and have it all I gotta have some
That's cool. So I still have a little of the yellow tint but that's because of the minerals in my water
If you use purified water not purified, you know purified or uh, that'd be a reverse of most of the water. It wouldn't have that
Wait for me. Don't get carried away
All right
You got more than me. I know looks nice. We do the old fancy
Smell and swirl. What was that? No, we're not. Can you smell anything? Can you smell the cherry though?
So this one I did two of the brewer's best one was three quarters a teaspoon
And one was half. She's a seltzer drinker. I don't drink seltzer
So I don't know if this is good or bad. I told her to be honest. She's very nice. She won't be honest
Be honest, it tastes like ----
Oh
It's actually really good
No, i'm not lying. It's not like I don't like seltzers. I mean it's just
Anyway, it's really good. It's really good. Yeah, it's really good. Oh, that's cool. That's it guys. How about that?
first time brewing the old seltzer and I got the uh,
it's pretty you're just cleared and like look at the bottom of the uh,
I got the bottom of the the bottom of the bottle would have some of the sugar on the bottom one's a little cloudier
Yours is much clearer
Um, so we're also going to eat but you can pick up the cherry smell to it
It's really good
So again, this is a brewer's best flavoring that we use
Um, i'm gonna try we're gonna keep this video rolling. Um, we're going to yours looks really good
Look at the difference. That's the bottom of the glass versus
bottom of the bottle versus the top
I should have known how to pour that better than I did for myself
Uh, we're getting one. We got peach
and then we've also got I think half a teaspoon of the
Brewer's best cherry
So we're gonna try that and uh, then we've got two plain that we're gonna mix with meal and try that out
right
Right boss, you're gonna chug that they love when people chug. Okay
That'll be bad for me
Well, it's good she's the expert I have no idea to me it's just I don't i'm a beer guy
Anyway, we'll be back for the next little taste test. Whoo. Anything you want to say?
No, it's delicious. Carla approved. Carla approved
That's a big deal right there. Yes
So does more sugar
That was her cue
So she asked me a question. I said we should have the camera on
It's it's it's it's not super carbonated, but she says it's a good carbonation, but you can see it is there is carbonation
I think I used one teaspoon per that's a 16 ounce bottle. So yes the answer question is yes more sugar makes it more carbonated
But what happens as I've explained to her because she when I first talked about making this she was concerned that they'd be what sweet
Or some of them have vodka. So they're not sweet. This is made from
This is made from uh dextrose sugar
So it's just water and sugar that you ferment with yeast
Then what happens once it's done fermenting you put it in the bottle
You add more sugar the carbonate yeast comes back alive the yeast eats the sugar
And it makes alcohol and co2 hence the carbonation
capisce
We'll be back with the next taste test
She's got something to say
We're still on the first batch. I just and we're getting a little buzz on here
Um, I asked her if we wanted to do the cherry next we got a cherry at half teaspoon
I said this is three quarters and I said could it have more flavor? I think it could have it's delicious, but I think it could have
More flavoring i'm, uh, i'm a flavor girl and she is the flavor girl
I'm gonna leave that right there. But yeah
Um, she won't leave that right there
No, i'm gonna drink this for sure. So that's interesting so we could do a teaspoon maybe next time
I think maybe a teaspoon will be nice
So we're gonna try the meal ones too because we did I said we had some plain ones
So we're just gonna add meal because you couldn't add the meal to the bottle because there's sugar in it
The bottom one exploded and it's carbonating so can't do that
This flavoring didn't have sugar
Yeah
When I turn the camera off she talks a lot
I do
All right, we're gonna what do we try next the peach or the other black cherry? We're going peach
Peachy, okay, you can take it away on this one
bubbly
This is
Don't shake it. I'll get all the cinnamon. I'm not shaking. No, no tell them first. What's it say?
You can't read my writing
So this one is
That's not coming and you guys can't see it any better and she can and you really probably couldn't read it. Yeah, we can't
No, no, so this one is bubbly flavoring where the last one was brewed best
And i'm getting a buzz from that already
Now this is peach
And it's half a teaspoon. The last one is three quarters, but a different type of deal
So, yeah, you want to just pop that
Made me jump that sounded that sounded a little more carbonated in the last one
It did
I'll give you the first part. Yeah, just don't tilt it up too late and you get all the sediment from the bottom
He doesn't trust me pouring this
We're good, that's good, that's good. Yep. There you go, sir
So that looks nice lots of carbonation lots of bubbles coming up from it does still have that little yelting but it's not bad
It's not the swamp water that I was calling this
How's yours? It looks the same as yours. Yeah
Cheers smell it smell any peach she's ready to start drinking
However
We went on a trip when we first started dating to vegas and she said to me should I dress for drinks for drugs?
I fell in love
It's like always drags when we dress for drinks, but we definitely had drags
I'm not picking up picking up much peach for you
Yep
The flavor. Oh, yeah. Oh way more flavor. It's more flavor than the cherry one
You wouldn't want to do any more than half it only would you?
Definitely more flavored. So the last one was brewer's best flavoring black cherry for beer and wine
This is bubbly like the one is bubbly, uh hard stuff not hard seltzer just seltzer
Right like soda stream. Yeah. Yeah flavor for that
Pretty what do you think? It's good
Too much flavor too little. No, definitely not too much
I don't like as much as a cherry
But again, i'm not a seltzer guy at all zero. She said it tastes better than white cloth
Well, it would be hard not to
You're watching this video
It's good, but I think it is a little bit more carbonated too
That's interesting
same amount of sugar
I don't like it as much. I like the cherry better
It's good. You like it. You see a lot of you see a lot of tell the truth. I said don't lie
It tastes like ----. You gotta tell me it tastes like no, I would tell you because I wouldn't drink it. Yeah
But I do I do like the peach
Do you like the peach?
I don't like it as much for some reason
Don't know don't know
I need a beer
All right any words of wisdom to give me where we get the next one
Have a beer
We need to slow down we're gonna be hammered we're gonna space out the next one what comes next we're gonna do the uh,
Plain one and then add mio or we're doing the other cherry one
I don't know
I lost track of cherry
Stay tuned
So she just said that the what'd you say
the bubbly
I think the bubbly
Is the front runner over the brewer's what'd you say best brewer's best. It has a better. Um
It feels like a better flavor. I don't know if maybe
The brewer's best could be up to a teaspoon that is it was a half teaspoon of the cherry that we tasted originally quarters
Three quarters, excuse me
Um peach was half
The peach was half of the bubbly. Yeah, the brewer's best was three quarters
Peach was half
Teaspoon of the bubbly and this is cherry bubbly half teaspoon
but that's just me my preference if I have a seltzer, I like to
um
Be able to taste the flavor of seltzer that i'm having so it might be too much for some but you like to taste the flavor
I do. I like to taste
Peach or cherry or I found that the half teaspoon of the peach was definitely stronger than the three quarters
best
Well, that's what you're saying, right? 100. Yeah
100% 100%
So
We're gonna do the uh, she's not rinsing her glass. I rinsed my glass only that isn't this time
Not being very proper
Little all right, we still have something in there. Okay, i'll drink it he's gonna be hammered by the time we're done taste us
I may be now
I didn't pop as much. No, because I think I kept my hand on it. That's okay. No, it's all right
This time
This time. Yep. Oh, i'm not seeing a lot of carbonation in that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there it is. There it is
How's the smell?
Oh
Strong, so this is bubbly cherry
Bubbly cherry and the first one was brewer's best black cherry. Okay, this kind of smells promising
It smells promising looks good. You're all looking pretty decent. I don't mind the color because that color's not bad
It's like a light wine
What's the word?
It's good. Definitely has a lot more aroma than the brewer's best. It's more cherry than the brewer's best
Definitely yeah, so what do you think i'm not the sales are good
This one's my favorite so far, oh
Nice, it's good. Nice
So enough flavoring too little too much
Well, I like to be able to taste the flavoring. So yeah, we got that and you got that. Okay
So more
more or less
Oh, definitely not less. No more. What is this a half teaspoon of bubbly?
What is it? I could probably I know you could hit me with a little bit more
Maybe three quarters. So compared to I don't drink saucers. So compared to other saucers. How is the flavor?
or some of the more
You drink white clover when you have to what I don't like white cloth because I don't feel like it has like enough flavoring
So is this more flavoring than white cloth?
Oh, yeah water has more flavoring than white
Sorry white cloth
um
Um, what's the other one you like course course is it course course slushy? I like how's the flavoring?
Are they more than this? Yeah
Of course. Oh, so she's in more flavor. Yeah, and you like those. I do. She's being nice. You want more flavor or not?
Hit me with a flavoring
more flavor so
I guess we tried three quarters teaspoon next time, but it'll probably be kegging next time. So I'll have to figure that out
We're making a keg of this. Oh, yeah
Firing it up party on this is this has seemed to work out. Okay, so we want small batch now
We're gonna take it out. Oh
I'm, making a mess. We just lost half a batch. They're swirling around
You're gonna call me skippy
Oh, it's good. All right, so I guess next
And is it last?
Yep, okay. I hope so
My name is young. Oh boy
We're gonna do um the plain and we're gonna have meal too
Okay, because you couldn't add the meal. I think I already said that i've said in some of the other videos
You can't add the meal to the bottle and carbonated because there's sugar in the meal, which is bad
Um could have a bottle bomb
Whereas the bubbly and the brew is best on sugar
There's sugar in the oh, I did not know that there is wow, you might be able to get sugar free
I don't know the ones I got have sugar
devastating
All right
Anything else any words of wisdom?
Not right now. No
A couple more drinks. You'll have lots
Seltzer's working
A lot of seltzer
Oh boy, we're going we've decided we're going dancing now
We gotta wrap this up because we're hitting the town
my seltzer's
work seltzers are
Okay, let's go
This is plain
We're gonna we're gonna flavor this with some meal
So yeah, we're gonna do two glasses
One's gonna be blueberry lemonade. Yeah, there's gonna be strawberry water. Okay
That was carbonated
Yes, sir. Yeah
So what it's telling you if you don't tilt that too much then the ---- from the bottom will come up tilt the glass more
Yeah, i'm i'm not a brewer clearly. I'm just a drinker
Very good at it, too. I am
Okay, perfect one perfect four. No, sorry. No one for you one for me
One for me
One two for me no, okay one for you and one for me
Okay, so we're doing uh, you're gonna use the mills. He's gonna dump her in. No, we're not gonna measure
I'm gonna you're gonna measure. I think we should okay
Here's your eighth of a teaspoon. So we said we said did a little research with my old
chat dpt
Buddy called brewster and he said 0.5 mils. So this is 0.625
So what we're gonna do we're gonna do blueberry lemonade. This is gonna stain your coffee your pot my table cloth
Coffee my linen table cloth
Look at that. He's doing it right over the glass. God. Oh, is that color?
Of course it does
Swishy swishy
Oh, look at that. That's cool. Look at the color. That's kind of neat
All right, i'll measure two just so I don't this might be too much flavor, I don't know 0.625 mils
This is the blueberry lemonade
Oh, this is we didn't do cherry this time because we've already had cherry
There's a strawberry watermelon bam and I flavor beer with this guys at my brew pubs works great
As long as you keep the uh beer cold
Like I said, because there's sugar in that so if you keep it in the keg and keeping your keger it works
Well, mine's pink. Oh, wow, that would sell wouldn't it? We're gonna start a seltzer business. We are yeah
That one's a little no, that's still cool, too. That's cool
Look how pretty oh
Yeah, so pretty
That's important. Oh
That was weird
Oh, I like it though not too much flavor
No, I think you could have more
Well, let me try that first before you add some more
I'm not a seltzer guy. I'm kind of like
It's not my thing
Oh, that one's better. That one's better than you
blueberry
lemonade
Yeah, strawberry watermelon is better than the blueberry lemonade in my opinion
You think it needs more flavor? Yeah, you gotta measure it. He's going for it. We're not measuring anything
I'm just gonna give it a shot of blueberry. That's enough to do a whole keg of beer. No, it's not
Look at the color there. That's really pretty it is. No, it's much bluer. That's for sure
It's a lot. Okay. No, it's good. Oh, wow, but you don't know how much we put in so we have no idea
Just a just a little like squirt
There you go
Oh, yeah, that is better so much better. Yeah, it's much better. You don't measure with measuring spoons. Oh, that's really good
You measure with your heart that's actually really you do you measure with your heart
no, i'm getting now what you're talking about more flavor required because
That's uh measure with your heart. Okay. This is officially now my favorite
Meal for the win measure with your heart
Yeah, it's my favorite
That's good. That is good. That one's good, too. Did you have that? Oh, yeah, I had it but i'll have it again
We're going dancing
Yeah, we are we're hitting the town
Yep
Seltzers are hit so
Ching ching
So the meal is the winner, isn't it? Yeah, I know but you've got to give it enough mio to like give it some
oomph
We're putting the oomph in the seltzer, that's what we'll call it start our seltzer company
That's a winner i'm done with my brew pub sold that years ago moving into seltzer
So easy to make too crazy
Anyway, well, that's fun. We're gonna get we're gonna get past
um anything you want to say
No, i'm quite happy right now. That's a first
Cheers guys. So that was success. That's cool. If she likes it, that's a success because she's a seltzer drinker
No, she's not a beer drinker i've tried guys
Yeah, i've so tired. We first started dating. She tried to tell me that she likes stouts, but that was a lie
No, I know but I can't drink a stout which is weird. I got some guinness in the fridge there
You want to get in them? No
Anything else
No, all right guys, that's what we got. So, uh, we're gonna uh, that's it
We do have the one left, but it's a half a teaspoon of uh brewers best
She thought there wasn't enough flavor in the three quarters of teaspoons, so we're not gonna
I don't know. I think I think I can I think I can
Doctor it up though meal is definitely the one so if I make a keg if I make a keg
Maybe the way to do is just do a plane do a plane. Does that sell the meal as you go? Yeah
That's the one all right guys, uh for anybody new to the channel you can check out my uh,
beginner brewer's boot camp description link to the uh signups in the descriptions while I give away my top five
best selling recipes from my brew pub
links in the description
Sorry
Big rob and little carla. We got one
Cheers guys
