![]() You can find recipes for making a fake frothy head for your fake beer, using powdered egg whites and an acid, such as lemon juice. See if your cast are happy to drink alcohol-free beer. Cranberry juice, blackcurrant, and cherry juice are useful to experiment with when making red wine, but make sure your actors like the taste of the drinks you prepare or all your hard work could go to waste. Weak limejuice cordial, and diluted grape juice are both good substitutes too. ![]() If money is tight, just try adding a little food colouring to water. If you find a very light coloured apple juice, you may be able to dilute it to the colour of white wine. Some very pale Japanese teas could pass for white wine in the right dilution. If you need bubbles visible, try carbonated water and experiment with colourings. This can be difficult to make, but persevere. Try is watered-down apple juice as a substitute for whiskeys. Cola Sodastream flavouring is effective, but you will have to experiment to get just the right recipe. Caramel colouring from the baking aisle is perfect. Another technique for making dark coloured drinks is to add some burnt sugar to water and mix. There are plenty of teas available now, so experiment widely to get the look you want, altering steeping times, water temperature and dilution. Tea has been used in theatrical productions for decades, as a perfect imitator of dark alcoholic drinks. These can all be made with the old standby – tea. Dark liquids – Whiskey, Scotch, Bourbon, Sherry ![]() Write your successful recipes down – continuity is essential. Make sure you can recreate the drinks you make, and that they are not too expensive to produce in quantity, should you need to. Work with others to get the perfect balance. A perfect ‘red wine’ recipe might look spot on in your brightly lit workshop, but like tar on a gloomy set. Speak with the lighting department too, and see if the drink is going to be picked out with lighting, and if the scene lighting will affect the colour of the liquid. Again, multiple takes can cause real issues in a scene like this, so make sure everyone knows the score, so they can have new costumes on hand once the second take is set up. Some scenes require that a drink be thrown, for example, and you need to check with the costumiers whether this is going to cause major problems with laundering. Some ConsiderationsĬonsult with your costumes department when making a fake drink, as it will help you decide what to put in your recipe. Movie and theatre prop designers have a number of tricks to help them fool the audience. The actors would soon be rolling in the aisles. But how do you make a convincing alcoholic drink? If an actor has to do multiple takes, or there is a large movie production, it is not practical to provide real beer, champagne or cocktails. We supply all kinds of vessels for a production that needs to feature food or bar scenes, whether that be period or modern. This month our ‘How To’ article looks at how to make convincing fake drinks for your performers.
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