I know it would detract from your macho look but I suggest protective eyewear whenever 'splosions are happing. Another great video and happy new year to you, your family and the crew as well.
I always come to watch Greg for bar range safety tips: 1 Treat all bottles as if loaded 2 Keep finger off the bottle till ready to saber 3 Always keep bottle pointed in a safe direction 4 Always keep the bartender unloaded till ready to use 5 Eye and ear protection must be worn at all times- -------- He gets a demerit for not following that last one. Drink responsibly everyone in 2020
i enjoy how it progressively gets more half assed as they just struggle to find more things to saber with, and Greg just sounds tired and exasperated towards the end with the ridiculous things being handed to him
I remember being at a party as a newer drinker and no one had a bottle opener, but some guy had a pocket knife. We'd been trying to open beer bottles with it but after waiting a significant time for everyone to fiddle with the knife, I yanked it out of the guys hand and sabered my cider. As the kind of quiet guy there, I got some good looks as my friend dropped his jaw "Did you just saber a cider bottle with a pocket knife!?" I feel like I became something of a hero that night.
I absolutely lost it when you said, "I DID IT WITH MY MIND!!" luckily I'm the only one in my office today! Happy new year! Looking forward to what you have planned in 2020!
Did I just spend nearly 20 minutes of my life watching Greg try to slice open bottles with every day objects. Yes. Yes I did. Do I have any regrets? Nope. None whatsoever
AKA Will random crap from around the house open a bottle of champagne? Also, "I resolve to make better decisions in 2020!" and 2020 is all like, "That's okay, I'll make the bad ones for you!"
Napoleon: "Dude, you know what's wrong with drinks today?" Me: "ummmm..." Napoleon: "Needs more swords. Broken glass is an acceptable risk." Me: "Is everything OK at home?"
I feel like this is the perfect video for the holiday season. Like the time around Christmas and New Years, work still wants you to come in, but there isn't a reason. So you just screw around to kill time and maybe accidentally be productive.
This is exactly the type of fizzy, chaotic energy I need going into the New Year. And bonus women in wine history! Bless, Greg and fam. May your New Year be bright, bubbly, and beautiful in its bounty.
"This credit card is canceled! Will it saber?" How to Drink's accountant. "Why is the card canceled?" *looks over at the giant pile of un-drunk Prosecco.* "No Idea, none."
The way you explained the physics of this, and more specifically when you said “very quickly propagate”, you sounded like Doc Brown explaining time travel to Marty lol
How dare you cut off the best line in that movie! The way Rickman intones "it'll *hurt* more" is one of the most evil but also petulant phrases I've heard in film. Best Robin Hood movie. Happy New Year Greg! Everyone have a great 2020!
If you start this video at 23:42:17 on NYE night, Greg Will say happy new year on as the clock strikes 12! Happy New year to you and yours Greg. Hope you don't spend the entire night making drinks.
I really don't know why I watched this whole video. In the end it felt like a sunken cost. I invested so much in watching I could not stop. Terrific work Greg!
When the years become an enhanced shitshow fun, entertaining videos come ominous. lol I laugh when I think after two tragedies in my life in 2015 that the years HAVE to be better after that. Always love your content, Greg. You'd be a hell of a guy to talk to from time to time. I mean this with all my heart, I hope you and yours are doing well, and keeping healthy.
@@howtodrink good mythical morning does food episodes like will it taco. They take random foods to see if it's good as a taco. They open the episode with Will it taco? Let's talk about that.
This was an excellent episode! We appreciate the noble sacrifice of a small nick to the wrist and a slightly lacerated thumb in producing this hilarious content. I hope you and the production crew proceeded to drink all the prosecco to ring in the new year, even if you made the video months in advance. Also, here's to hoping that you give up on that resolution soon into the new year. Some of your best videos are the ones that probably weren't the most advisable.
Watching Greg go at it, I'm reminded of Alton Brown's sage wisdom, "If you fail to sabre the first time, it ain't gonna work any subsequent time." (Hot Ones Season 5, Ep 15) Except apparently it did. Huh...
I feel like maybe that was in the context of using a knife. Like if you’ve got a cold bottle, you know how to do it, and it doesn’t work with a good, heavy knife on the first time, probably not gonna happen.
After listening to the physics part of it i am helplessly watching him try with objects that physics dictates won't work. As you said, you are hammering that point in the glass. If you use anything that can absorb the energy instead of imparting it to the actual glass, you will not saber. Basically: 1) Hit the damn point (nothing rounded will) 2) Use something that doesn't bend/isn't flexible (That absorbs the force) 3)Use enough force (you're basically using a lever, if the arm of the lever is too small, you'll reaaaaally have to hit that thing) Happy sabering!
I learned that you can saber with a butter knife when i watched James May and Oz Clark's Drink to Britain show. But, now i know not to use a juicer. Thank you!
My wife seems to be quite a pain in the keister! I have narrowed her drink selection down to three drinks and you sir are in the top three! First being tequila sunrise. The next is cosmopolitan. And the third is the champagne cocktail 🍸 I see cheers to you she thoroughly enjoys this drink!!!
Please make this a running series every New Year's! Or at least something in the same vein, the chaotic energy is exactly what we need to end the year with
Just wanted to say thank you for putting this video out, I attempted this for the first time ever last night and those who witnessed it were beyond impressed.
OK, this notification came through, and my first thought was "oh, God, he's gonna hurt himself...". ;) Yes, folks, please use the *spine* of the knife, not the sharp edge. You're welcome.
I’ve done it with a credit card! The bottle needs to be really cold, and it’s not about force or strength, it has to do with hitting the spot where the lip of the bottle ends and meets the vertical seam, (the weakest spot of the bottle), and following through! Just like a golf swing’ as he said after the second champagne flute attempt.
He films more then one episode a session and gets progressively drunker as he films, so if they were posted sequentially you could pretty much follow how much he'd drink every 5 episodes or so
I worked in a cafeteria for a few years. One day the chef got frustrated with the plastic seal on a bottle of... I don't remember - vinegar, worcestershire sauce, something not pressurized. He grabbed a knife and sabered the top off in one motion, then looked at me and said, "I didn't do that, you saw nothing."
I feel like perfecting sabering with a champagne flute would be a great party trick cuz after you saber it you can immediately pour a glass for the nearest person that you want to impress
Fun fact, 'Champagne bottles' are not originally designed for Champagne. When Champagne makers where having those issues with exploding bottles there was already a nearby tradition which had a long history of dealing with bottle fermented high carbonation beverages, the Lambic brewers in Belgium. That's where Champagne makers found their bottles able to withstand higher pressures, so Champagne is actually wine packaged in a type of beer bottle. Of course later in history Champagne became more well known and for a long while Lambic lingered in near complete obscurity so the bottle type came to be more associated with Champagne and became known as 'Champagne bottles'.
Another plus to the half-cage - you can tie a string/ribbon to it when you don't have "safe direction" to point the bottle at. Wrap the other end of the string around the hand that holds the bottle and you will prevent the cork and glass from flying away too far
Hey, this is extemely late and probably uninteresting for almost everyone, but here goes: Objects that 'will saber' should have 2 key qualities. Rigidity and concentration of force. In other words, they should flex as little as possible and have an edge of some kind. These qualities can compensate for each other to some degree but you want both for best effect. The key is to have immediate and high energy transfer between your striking object (whatever it is) and the point of impact (neck of the bottle). Glass is very brittle but very durable. This means that to crack it you have to concentrate as much force as possible on as small as possible an area, in as little time as possible. That's why 'glassbreakers' are designed the way they are. Long story short: Rigid object, edge, 'sabered bottle'.
Unexpected hilarity, I’ve never been able to do that correctly, champagne bottles and I are strange bedfellows. Amusing way to end 2019 on. Hope that Champagne was well enjoyed after all the openings. Awesome video, Greg
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You stole my first 😭
I know it would detract from your macho look but I suggest protective eyewear whenever 'splosions are happing. Another great video and happy new year to you, your family and the crew as well.
Man, Barfly doesn’t sell sabers?!
Meilleurs Voeux, Barkeep!
Veuve-Cliquot [Clee-cowe]
it means 'the Poppy Widow'
a reference to war widows.
I like how this starts as “Figuring out how to Sabre champagne” and quickly devolves into “Area man assaults champagne bottles with various houseware”
I believe it evolves
it isn't champagne
@@skippingsmile1898 The us does not recognize french regulation
Im surprised he didnt buy a saber and saber with a saber
Florida Man is the new Area Man.
I always come to watch Greg for bar range safety tips:
1 Treat all bottles as if loaded
2 Keep finger off the bottle till ready to saber
3 Always keep bottle pointed in a safe direction
4 Always keep the bartender unloaded till ready to use
5 Eye and ear protection must be worn at all times- -------- He gets a demerit for not following that last one.
Drink responsibly everyone in 2020
Ahahahahhaha few of us are friend :(
@@johnconnah4569 And now none of us are...
I feel like I'm watching a Rick and Morty interdimensional cable bit.
Same
The Charlie Ramirez 😂😂😂😂😭
Well it probably is, given that it is Interdimensional and all.
The Charlie Ramirez that is 100% gonna become 2020's New Year's Baby Meme.
Not really.
Just perfectly sabered open a bottle... Alone, in my kitchen, and then spent half an hour mopping it up
How do u saber an open bottleeeeee
if it's perfect, it wouldn't have made a mess
@@lEGOBOT2565 Do you have any idea how drunk I was when I made that comment?
@@Magic_monkey_man either none at all or extremely
How do you spend half an hour on that?
i enjoy how it progressively gets more half assed as they just struggle to find more things to saber with, and Greg just sounds tired and exasperated towards the end with the ridiculous things being handed to him
“Will it saber?” Tries everything, EXCEPT A SABER!
But a knife is close
A sabre will sabre, no need to try it.
He shoulda saber a bottle with a bottle
@@KKnifeBelly he did, twice.
@@xander1052 like a sparkling wine bottle with a sparkling wine bottle
"This was... ill conceived." Masterful understatement, sir.
16.34 minutes in, "hmm, this is *starting* to get dangerous" :-D
Greg: *explains allthe rules for doing it right*
Also Greg: *breaks every rule after getting mad*
Days since Greg's last bar related injury : Zero
Let's see if he can make it it to 365 for the next round of "will it saber"
I remember being at a party as a newer drinker and no one had a bottle opener, but some guy had a pocket knife. We'd been trying to open beer bottles with it but after waiting a significant time for everyone to fiddle with the knife, I yanked it out of the guys hand and sabered my cider. As the kind of quiet guy there, I got some good looks as my friend dropped his jaw "Did you just saber a cider bottle with a pocket knife!?" I feel like I became something of a hero that night.
Greg: This was...ill conceived. ...my barware was provided by...
Barfly: Nah, Greg, we good.
Lol
Me: *sees snowflakes falling outside.*
My antique champagne bottle collection: *Symphony of breaking glass.*
Lol
I absolutely lost it when you said, "I DID IT WITH MY MIND!!" luckily I'm the only one in my office today! Happy new year! Looking forward to what you have planned in 2020!
Just before that "Happens to a lot of guys!"
Well 2020 didn’t go great
'Looking forward to what you have planned in 2020'
4:56
@@tabormoro958 Neither did 2021 really lmao
Did I just spend nearly 20 minutes of my life watching Greg try to slice open bottles with every day objects. Yes. Yes I did. Do I have any regrets? Nope. None whatsoever
“Never point it at anything you don’t intend to destroy” wise words to live by
Somebody knows their fire arms rules well, lol.
My mother said this when she got me my first rifle lol
AKA Will random crap from around the house open a bottle of champagne?
Also, "I resolve to make better decisions in 2020!" and 2020 is all like, "That's okay, I'll make the bad ones for you!"
Napoleon: "Dude, you know what's wrong with drinks today?"
Me: "ummmm..."
Napoleon: "Needs more swords. Broken glass is an acceptable risk."
Me: "Is everything OK at home?"
Yup, now lets go invade Russia! What could go wrong?
@@isaacschmitt4803 What, winter? Bah, we will arrive at the nick of time!
Well Josephine been giving me a little gyp, a lil trouble but otherwise things are fine.
Why ya asking? She say sumting?
Bon Anniversary, mon Ami! 🍸
I feel like he drank every bottle he opened. That's why we got comedy gold like "a creditcaaaaaard, will it SABER?!" 😂
Just watched 18 min of a man breaking glass...
andI loved it
I feel like this is the perfect video for the holiday season. Like the time around Christmas and New Years, work still wants you to come in, but there isn't a reason. So you just screw around to kill time and maybe accidentally be productive.
This is exactly the type of fizzy, chaotic energy I need going into the New Year.
And bonus women in wine history!
Bless, Greg and fam. May your New Year be bright, bubbly, and beautiful in its bounty.
Happy new year!
unfortunately , the name la Veuve - Cliquot means 'the Poppy Widow'.
a reference to war widows.
She sounded like a cool person to hang out with!
2020 was indeed very chaotic
I have waited so long for someone on RUclips to reference “Why a spoon, cousin?”
12 bottles of procecco, drinks root beer. This is why we subscribed people!!
"This credit card is canceled! Will it saber?"
How to Drink's accountant. "Why is the card canceled?"
*looks over at the giant pile of un-drunk Prosecco.* "No Idea, none."
Underrated comment lol
The way you explained the physics of this, and more specifically when you said “very quickly propagate”, you sounded like Doc Brown explaining time travel to Marty lol
I have never received higher praise, thank you!
How To Drink thank you for the awesome content and Happy New Year!
And/or Rick to Morty
"this is becoming dangerous"
"becoming"
"It's dull you twit, it'll hurt more!"
One of my favorite movie quotes. I was so glad someone else used it.
This was a great episode, and then in came one of my favorite quotes from Robin Hood. Epic.
Also a fav movie quote.
He cut off the quote. I have not heard it in years!
How dare you cut off the best line in that movie!
The way Rickman intones "it'll *hurt* more" is one of the most evil but also petulant phrases I've heard in film.
Best Robin Hood movie.
Happy New Year Greg!
Everyone have a great 2020!
This didn't age well.
If you start this video at 23:42:17 on NYE night, Greg Will say happy new year on as the clock strikes 12! Happy New year to you and yours Greg. Hope you don't spend the entire night making drinks.
A technique endorsed by the college-aged children of Emergency Room Doctors everywhere.
This video gives me a interdimensional cable TV show vibe. Happy 2020 Greg!
......my man talking about range discipline with a bottle of champ. Respect, sir
Root Beer: will saber!
Earned a like.
I really don't know why I watched this whole video. In the end it felt like a sunken cost. I invested so much in watching I could not stop. Terrific work Greg!
Couldn’t find a saber to saber?
Sad times
I’m saberless it seems.
I'm feeling there is a pervy anime joke in there
@@GundamReviver saberface
@@GundamReviver I fully expect one of the innumerable Fate franchise fans to use the audio from this to make a parody video.
@@howtodrink No saber, but I do have a WWI bayonet...probably work well enough and still have a "cool" factor. (short sword-sized)
Sabering open a champagne bottle with an $800 smartphone just smacks to me to of the west at its most decadent and I love it
Next year stack a tower of glasses and pour champagne like a water fall!
When the years become an enhanced shitshow fun, entertaining videos come ominous. lol I laugh when I think after two tragedies in my life in 2015 that the years HAVE to be better after that. Always love your content, Greg. You'd be a hell of a guy to talk to from time to time. I mean this with all my heart, I hope you and yours are doing well, and keeping healthy.
"I mean, in fairness, the flowers probably softened it up some" - LOL!
Everyone's out partying, and I'm at home with a cigar and some Laphroaig 10 all because of this RUclips Channel. Darn you!!!
Thats a party all by itself, why would you complain about it?
@@potatochip2070 lol true
"Will. It. Saber?" Let's talk about that!
I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought it 😄
Ooo clue me in? What’s the inside joke?
GMM
@@howtodrink good mythical morning does food episodes like will it taco. They take random foods to see if it's good as a taco. They open the episode with Will it taco? Let's talk about that.
@@howtodrink , I applaud your embracing our more sporting culture, mon barkeep.
next year, real sabres!
This was an excellent episode! We appreciate the noble sacrifice of a small nick to the wrist and a slightly lacerated thumb in producing this hilarious content. I hope you and the production crew proceeded to drink all the prosecco to ring in the new year, even if you made the video months in advance.
Also, here's to hoping that you give up on that resolution soon into the new year. Some of your best videos are the ones that probably weren't the most advisable.
Happy Roaring 20s, Greg and all the How To Drink family!
I love you guys and the part at 4:57
And we continue to watch Greg's decent into madness. Bravo
Even classier AF.
This has been a good week.
i love the absolute manic energy in this episode
Watching Greg go at it, I'm reminded of Alton Brown's sage wisdom, "If you fail to sabre the first time, it ain't gonna work any subsequent time." (Hot Ones Season 5, Ep 15)
Except apparently it did. Huh...
I think he said that to be lazy lol
I feel like maybe that was in the context of using a knife. Like if you’ve got a cold bottle, you know how to do it, and it doesn’t work with a good, heavy knife on the first time, probably not gonna happen.
After listening to the physics part of it i am helplessly watching him try with objects that physics dictates won't work. As you said, you are hammering that point in the glass. If you use anything that can absorb the energy instead of imparting it to the actual glass, you will not saber. Basically:
1) Hit the damn point (nothing rounded will)
2) Use something that doesn't bend/isn't flexible (That absorbs the force)
3)Use enough force (you're basically using a lever, if the arm of the lever is too small, you'll reaaaaally have to hit that thing)
Happy sabering!
I feel like this episode is the most fun Greg has had on the show. Just a guy messing around trying to saber as many bottles as he can lol
Every time he says “will it saber” takes me back to early Rhett and Link
I'll definitely be popping my top this new years eve
I love how someone is handing you additional items with tongs, maintaining their 6ft social distance before it was cool!
I learned that you can saber with a butter knife when i watched James May and Oz Clark's Drink to Britain show. But, now i know not to use a juicer. Thank you!
My wife seems to be quite a pain in the keister! I have narrowed her drink selection down to three drinks and you sir are in the top three! First being tequila sunrise. The next is cosmopolitan. And the third is the champagne cocktail 🍸 I see cheers to you she thoroughly enjoys this drink!!!
5:25 What we think we'll look like.
7:00 What we'll actually look like in front of 50 people staring at us.
I watched this video on new years eve and 23:59 I drunkenly sabred my cheap bottle of bubbly wine, perfectly.
Please make this a running series every New Year's! Or at least something in the same vein, the chaotic energy is exactly what we need to end the year with
i love how you weren't scared at the beginning but by the end you were turning away and wincing.
Now he's just turning into Good Mythical Morning.
Just wanted to say thank you for putting this video out, I attempted this for the first time ever last night and those who witnessed it were beyond impressed.
OK, this notification came through, and my first thought was "oh, God, he's gonna hurt himself...". ;)
Yes, folks, please use the *spine* of the knife, not the sharp edge. You're welcome.
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"I did it with my *MIND* !!!"
Lol hope you have a wonderful new year!! Wish you and your family all the best, lots of love and health!!
I don’t even really drink, but I really enjoy watching your videos.
Your whole channel gives off a warm and charming vibe.
I was half expecting impromptu tasting notes on the root beer, missed opportunity.
I’ve done it with a credit card! The bottle needs to be really cold, and it’s not about force or strength, it has to do with hitting the spot where the lip of the bottle ends and meets the vertical seam, (the weakest spot of the bottle), and following through! Just like a golf swing’ as he said after the second champagne flute attempt.
This is brilliant, as a contrast, and the music near the end really makes it.
Oh god I’m loving this.
For a standard show (or special holiday show like this), how much do you drink beforehand?
I dont think he pre-drinks; Just starts filming, a couple episodes in and he's good lol
He films more then one episode a session and gets progressively drunker as he films, so if they were posted sequentially you could pretty much follow how much he'd drink every 5 episodes or so
"I'm starting to get a little bit nervous about this" - *still doesn't put on safety glasses or gloves*
Really defeats the cool factor of sabering if you have proper PPE.
happy new years greg and the production team and everyone reading!!!
glad Greg's doing all this stuff so I can just put this on for everyone rather than trying it myself
I thought he’d use another bottle of Presecco to Saber
I don’t remember why I didn’t.
I've done it before! Just make sure the second is empty. It'll save on hospital bills
@@howtodrink Fear. The answer you're looking for is fear.
@@ScabbyMcKniel Oof, yeah, one bottle exploding on top of the other isn't ideal.
I worked in a cafeteria for a few years. One day the chef got frustrated with the plastic seal on a bottle of... I don't remember - vinegar, worcestershire sauce, something not pressurized. He grabbed a knife and sabered the top off in one motion, then looked at me and said, "I didn't do that, you saw nothing."
lmao i can only imagine the amount of broken glass on the floor
I feel like perfecting sabering with a champagne flute would be a great party trick cuz after you saber it you can immediately pour a glass for the nearest person that you want to impress
Greg the type of guy to saber in the name of science 😁 Also: props for range discipline comment.
Fun fact, 'Champagne bottles' are not originally designed for Champagne. When Champagne makers where having those issues with exploding bottles there was already a nearby tradition which had a long history of dealing with bottle fermented high carbonation beverages, the Lambic brewers in Belgium. That's where Champagne makers found their bottles able to withstand higher pressures, so Champagne is actually wine packaged in a type of beer bottle. Of course later in history Champagne became more well known and for a long while Lambic lingered in near complete obscurity so the bottle type came to be more associated with Champagne and became known as 'Champagne bottles'.
"This bottle has become very dangerous" lol
Watching this in late 2020 remembering how good we all had it
And here I've been smashing my bottles on the bows of ships like an idiot this whole time.
Another plus to the half-cage - you can tie a string/ribbon to it when you don't have "safe direction" to point the bottle at. Wrap the other end of the string around the hand that holds the bottle and you will prevent the cork and glass from flying away too far
Hey, this is extemely late and probably uninteresting for almost everyone, but here goes:
Objects that 'will saber' should have 2 key qualities. Rigidity and concentration of force.
In other words, they should flex as little as possible and have an edge of some kind.
These qualities can compensate for each other to some degree but you want both for best effect.
The key is to have immediate and high energy transfer between your striking object (whatever it is) and the point of impact (neck of the bottle).
Glass is very brittle but very durable. This means that to crack it you have to concentrate as much force as possible on as small as possible an area, in as little time as possible. That's why 'glassbreakers' are designed the way they are.
Long story short: Rigid object, edge, 'sabered bottle'.
after a few episodes I've noticed you've got a neat little collection of timepieces!
Willlll Itttt Saaaaaber?!?!?!?!
"Will it Saber?!" sounds like a legitimate series a la "Will it Blend?"
I love how you get more insane the more you try to figure out what will saber or not
"The Jigger Sabers" is the name of my new funkadelic metal band.
Lol the second you said “SCREWDRIVER!” I knew I would watch the rest of this lol my fav vid so far!
Bottle Nr. 93: "Let's try a feather!"
My goal when I dreamed this episode up was to do it by flicking my finger but it quickly became apparent that that was not going to happen.
Finally got to try my hand at sabering last night during NYE festivities. And I didn’t even cut myself. Thanks for showing us how Greg! 🎉
I now see why Greg streams Dark Souls on Twitch...he was preparing for this glorious moment!
Unexpected hilarity, I’ve never been able to do that correctly, champagne bottles and I are strange bedfellows.
Amusing way to end 2019 on. Hope that Champagne was well enjoyed after all the openings. Awesome video, Greg
Happens to a lot of guys
I love the history and science in the beginning, then pure chaotic energy after
This man is drunk with power.
MUAHAHAHA!
This has been a rather destructive episode in terms of what he's had to replace alone.
I feel like at the end he’s just grabbing everything he sees
15m52 eerummm That's a bit pr0n0 there...
...
What the boff! 16 mins and I'm still watching this!
I must be a madman.
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year, Greg! I discovered your content January of this year and it's been a thrill to watch your channel grow.
"This is getting dangerous..."
Who'da thunk it?!
Happy New year, Greg!