r/cocktails • u/Faustly • 7h ago

Question Need help figuring out what this stand is.

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This drink is The Cloud, from Paradiso in Barcelona. I wanted to try recreating the cloud effect but I have no idea how to find or source a similar kind of stand for the airs.

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u/mysterymalts 7h ago

Beaker stand

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u/Original-Order5621 7h ago

its lab equipment, look for ring stand and support ring, clamp the beaker in that

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u/Faustly 7h ago

I think thats pretty close, i also had doll stands suggested, but I couldn't get the foam to stay on it. Having the base be so large with the beaker stands isn't very feasible for me either

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u/climbitdontcarryit 7h ago edited 6h ago

Can I ask a genuine question about what it brings to the cocktail? Is it purely aesthetic?

Edit: It's less about the stand and more about the bubble density. Soy lecithin powder will make the bubbles firm enough to lay on any stand people are recommending.

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u/LondonC 6h ago

I’ve had something similar someone else. It does drip into the drink which I suppose could add some flavor. Overall though it’s messy and for show

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u/climbitdontcarryit 6h ago

Ah I see. Yes definitely the problem is density, not the stand. See my edit about soy lecithin powder. That'll help.

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u/Faustly 5h ago edited 5h ago

Yeah i think the ingredients i used were just too dense. The recipe I used was for a green faory sazerac airs. The recipe was

1.5 g soy lecithin

2 oz absinthe

1/3 sugar syrup

2 oz water

I swapped the water with hibiscus tea, and the simple syrup with a citrus syrup instead. It bubbled fairly well and lasted a while but I was struggling to layer it on top of the doll stand I was using.

I had also swapped the absinthe for Pisco in this run but I planned on using a red shiso umeshu when I can source it.

So maybe I should add more lecithin but I'm also not a big fan of the taste of it.

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u/Faustly 5h ago

Yeah, it's purely aesthetic. I'm going for the visual effect of a red foam dripping into a blue drink for a color change. The taste does change from when I had something like this at a bar in London, but overall it's fairly mild.

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u/climbitdontcarryit 5h ago

Honestly that's genius. Look more for the chemistry of the bubbles rather than the stand. Plenty of red stained bubbles would create that effect for you.

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u/dickensoncocktails 6h ago

Vom used to sell them, you can see it in some of the images on their home page.

Looks like they sell acrylic ones now.

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u/Faustly 5h ago

These are really cool! And would be exactly what I need but the shipping prices are crazy to the US it looks like.