How to Make Tonic Water and Why You Probably Shouldn't
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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Tonic water has a long history, first as a medicine to fight malaria, but they it morphed into a popular cocktail when mixed with gin, hence the Gin & Tonic. Many people are interested in making their own tonic water, and it can be done, but some important issues need to be discussed before you embark on your homemade tonic water recipe. Specifically, the main flavour-providing compound, quinine, can interact with many drugs and there are legal limits on how much quinine can go into tonic water (83 mg/L) so to formulate your own tonic, you need to factor these into your recipe.
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Excellent. Looking forward to the Calisaya video!
I’ve been waiting for this one! Dumb RUclips stopped giving me notifications.
Excellent points, similar is true for wintergreen oil / methyl salicylate. Very real risk of toxicity if not prepared carefully by someone with enough chemistry knowledge to dilute the active ingredient into a safe range.
Yes, winter green can be problematic as well.
Could you make a video about making flavored sparkling water such as bubbly or lacroix? As far as I know, the oil separates out from the essence when you add it to plain sparkling water. Thank you!
Thank you for delving into the amount of quinine that is in tidewater. In the United States it's even a lower amount. Almost undetectable. It used to be a go to staple for leg cramps. And up until 1990s was sold over the counter in capsules. Since it has been made a hardcore prescription drug, and only one company produces it in the United States the cost of one bottle of quinine is over $600. Leaving the only option to make it from an extraction or to purchase medical grade powder on the internet. I've made my own version of Sonic water, using commercial quinine tablets. Essentially using a fraction of a gram of the powder in the tablet per liter of water, to where it just gave it a bitter taste as the flavor of quinine is quite bitter. Knowing that the total weight of the tablet was only 200 mg. It was not hard to calculate the amount of quinine in liter. Although it did require a very sensitive laboratory scale. Again thank you for bringing science and good scientific measurement, to a place where usually it is given in rough bulk measurements. That make reproduction of something almost impossible
is the situation with wormwood quite similar re easily reaching legal limits in the recipe depending on the exact plant? I've seen a range of 0.3 to 1.6% (mean 0.6% SD 0.3%) essential oils in A.absinthium, with total thujone between 0 and 70.6% (mean 17.6% SD 18%) of that.
Yes, this is the same situation, except the limits for thujone are even lower than (10 ppm) so knowing what you are working with is important.
I would really like a non sweetened tonic? Is that just quinine phosphate in water or do you need something to help it dissolve?
This is the video I've been waiting for. I think most tonic syrups suck, so I've been waiting for one on using extracts. I hate muddy looking G&Ts. They don't carbonate well, they form weird swampy bubbles at the top of my drink and they look like sewage water. Most of the time I'd prefer schweppes to someone's crappy homemade syrup, but I also like the idea of being able to make my own tonic water and adjust flavours how I want to. But this video really went above and beyond.
I had absolutely NO idea about the drug interactions and I don't think I've ever heard anyone mention it.
Going above the legal limit isn't too worrying to me. 3g is the minimum toxic dose in an adult so even if it is containing 252mg of quinine/L, I'm not about to drink 12L of tonic water. Having said that, 1g has killed a child before and people react differently to different substances, so you should always stay well well well away from that minimum toxic dose. I really appreciate you being thorough and cautious here because when dealing with extracts, it becomes so easy to use too much of a substance.
re staying "well well well away" from a toxic dose -- i think they take typically something like 2 orders of magnitude safety factors from what they still belive to be borderline safe when formulating legal limits for these kinds of things, so that's how these end up much stricter than a toxic dose. And that's prob good practice too.
I was wondering, could I add this extract straight to gin and then add only carbonated water to make a GT?
you could - but it'd give you much less control over the drink. You'd have to use the exact amount of gin every time and you'd also need to add a source of sugar, which again would have to be perfectly balanced against the amount of water you're adding each time. Seems like a complicated mess when you could just get a perfect and consistent tonic water and add that to as much or as little gin as you like.
I feel if you're needing to make more than 5 gallons of homemade tonic at a time you're moving into the commercial realm and should be looking into purchasing straight quinine vs chinchona bark.
Quinine sulphate is the right way to go. Cinchona has a lot of tannins and doesn't actually taste good.
First half of video: "Be very careful and probably don't make this."
Second half: "Here's how to make it." 😂😂😂
That was Great
Use Quinine that we were produce
I love tonic water straight on ice
😂我使用医药级别的盐酸奎宁尝试制作过它。让人感觉回甜的苦味。😢可是我们地区的人大多不喜欢它的味道。我使用了蔗糖柠檬白柠檬香茅和小豆蔻风味。得到的比例是失衡的。我觉得没有得到最好的比例。不是像您这样使用真的原料。因为我买不到它在我们这边的市场上。盐酸奎宁是合成的，但味道接近。
😢距离这个视频发布已经三周了。新的视频什么时候发布。苦苦等待。
It's charlie sheens less irresponsible brother. He forgot to tell you one of those interactions is potentiating opiates which is a good thing otherwise you'd have to drink more alcohol to feel equally as drunk because all those boosting effects your body is feeling isn't necessarily going to be noticable to your extra drunk/high ass till you stop breathing
I have a question about mimicking a mountain dew. What would you use too spice a soda; Like with Mtn. Dew Flaming Hot?
My plan is too add spice too Mtn. Dew Overdrive at Casey's, since it's really similar too flaming hot, just without the spice.
Just guessing here but I think capsaicin is your answer
It’s pronounced KWIN - EEN
I can make alcohol 60%+ we drink dat shit in Serbia