The Art of Sabrage (without much art)

No non-sense follow-up to a power-point presentation I made detailing how to properly and safely take the top off a champagne, sparkling wine, or decent quality beer bottle (the one in the video is in-fact a Belgian beer).

I might splice a video of the powerpoint into the movie at a later date, take this one down, and swap in the more complete tutorial. That'd require more editing than I have the software for right now though, and this gets the basic concept across well enough.

Notes to makes it more complete:

1) If the bottle has been recently transported, such as by car) set it on your shelf for a day or so to rest. If you do this too soon after the bottle's been moved around alot it can end up exploding.

2) Always wear gloves and safety glasses (those are ANSI rated glasses I have on in the video)

3) Chill the bottle for at least one-hour prior to working with it. If it's not cold enough then the bottle can, you guessed it, explode.

4) I mentioned in my power point presentation that this really shouldn't be done indoors. Mother Nature and other campus activities conspired to keep me from being able to do this outside during the daylight like I wanted too.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• drink
• food
• champagne
• sparkling
• wine
• beer
• sabre
• sabrage

[latviandude]

Why didn't you take the cage off?

[SSJ3Mewtwo]

@latviandude

When you're using a knife that large and heavy, the cage helps keep the bottle from shattering. It's mass takes up some of the impact.

I've got a smaller and slightly more elegant looking knife I use for sabrage now, and when I use it I take the cage off, or at least move the cage up and fasten it around the lip of the bottle.

[lonewolfdw40]

that was cool

[SSJ3Mewtwo]

Aww, thankies sweetied :)

A pity I had the safety glasses on. You haven't seen me without my old glasses after getting LASIK done a while back.

[FutureKiyoshi]

And now I have a new excuse to use my fiance's various swords.

[SSJ3Mewtwo]

Remember what I mentioned in the video and in the powerpoint I sent you. Don't wreck the edge of something as nice as a sword doing this.

However, it's a great trick for the reception of a wedding :)

[AliaoftheKnife]

Cool vid.

[manuF1]

Its clear he don't really know much about real Sabrage.

[Kidenku]

how funny co-incidences like that. hahaha n.n; (person from FA here..Nami XD)

[Fieryone233]

Now, I have a reason to use SHARP OBJECTS ON GLASS. Course, you've had practice.

[SSJ3Mewtwo]

Thankies