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Today I made myself a Chamomile Tea and I was looking at it and it looked almost the exact same color as Jack Daniel's Whiskey.

There is probably a site out there already which tells you what drinks to use in place of alcoholic drinks when you're shooting a film (because you don't want to do 40 takes of a scene when a person takes 2 sips of alcohol or something, I would hope) and I think that Chamomile Tea is perfect for some types of whiskey. Add it to the list!
 
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Cranberry juice, darkened with Coke, can play the part of red wine.

BTW, if chamomile works for Jack, it should work for most colored liquors (watered down, as needed), as they're pretty much just varying degrees of the same burnt brown (notice, I said "liquor", not "liqueuer").

Also,

Hold up -- my mother likes bubble-baths with chamomile!

Anybody? Anybody? ROC, you gotta get that one, right?
This is the second-best idea that we've ever had.
 
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I've used non-alcoholic beer to be beer (on stage). But that's a bit of a no brainer.

I've also used water to be vodka (again on stage). But that's another great tip from Captain Obvious.
 
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Cracker Funk said:
Cranberry juice, darkened with Coke, can play the part of red wine.

BTW, if chamomile works for Jack, it should work for most colored liquors (watered down, as needed), as they're pretty much just varying degrees of the same burnt brown (notice, I said "liquor", not "liqueuer").

Also,

Hold up -- my mother likes bubble-baths with chamomile!

Anybody? Anybody? ROC, you gotta get that one, right?
This is the second-best idea that we've ever had.
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ROFL
 
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ROC said:
Maybe a food dye in plain water would work for other things. You think?
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Well, as far as alcoholic drinks are concerned, there's not that many that need to be faked. If you wanted to make some lame shooter, food-coloring in water would do the trick. But the most common cocktails can just be made virgin, and they'll look like the real thing. Off the top of my head, the "apple-tini" is the only thing that I might have difficulty recreating, non-alcoholic for a movie. Any layered drink would also be impossible, but nobody layers drinks these days, anyway.
 
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Oh so it's not even really a problem I guess. Oh well - there's ROC trying to be helpful again and backfiring.

:(

I feel like Tommy Boy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCyaXh-VZco
 
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Hehe. No, no backfiring here. Tea is a very good solution. Good thing to bring up. I'm a bartender; of course I have a different perspective on this conversation.

There'll never be another. So be my mother-lover.
 
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wheatgrinder said:
After 4 hours in the hot lights, that formerly frosty glass of cold milk is getting a bit.. uh.. thick..
suggestions?
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Does it need to be drinkable? PVA glue is often used as a milk substitute in food photography. Or you could use cornflour with water if you want to avoid ruining a glass… spritz the outside with a little water between takes to keep it looking ice-cold.
 
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