Impress everyone at your New Years Eve party by sabering open a bottle like some Napoleonic Hussar of yore! Happy New Year! Happy New Year Everyone! Today I'm teaching you the proper technique to saber open bottles of champagne, and I talk a bit about the history of the practice. I also play a game I call "Will it Saber?" in which I attempt to saber with various objects around my bar. It gets pretty creative, and I get through a lot of bottles. Several cases of them actually. I also get cut up. It's a good one and it's how I'm closing out 2019! And by the way, THANK YOU all so much for making 2019 the BEST YEAR EVER For How to Drink! This episode is dedicated to you. If you decide to try this, please be extremely careful. The bottle top flies off with incredible force and will destroy, maim, injure, or kill anything in its path. I'm not joking. Additionally as you'll see here, it's really not so safe for the person doing the sabering either. Slowly but surely, I'm starting a mailing list so that I'm not fully dependent on YT's algorithmized notifications system. If you'll sign up, I promise not to abuse your generosity, or sell your info to anyone. It's over on the blog right here: http://bit.ly/H2DBlog Shop spirits for your cocktails (Affiliate): http://bit.ly/H2Dspirits Crown & Caliber: http://bit.ly/2Fbx0jX Barfly Mixology Gear: https://amzn.to/2nCGQGb H2D2: http://bit.ly/YTH2D2 Twitch: http://bit.ly/2VsOi3d twitter: http://bit.ly/H2DTwit instagram: http://bit.ly/H2dIG Blog: http://bit.ly/H2DBlog Patreon: http://bit.ly/H2DPatreon Valentine's Day Cocktail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1UrEZsIrHg Incredibly Awesome Patrons who make this show possible! richard rappuhn Jason Russell Maria Rodi Kolya Venturi Brendan Gleave Kimber Guzik Paul Hannah Shuzong Zhuang Todd Swain Jason McCauley Sean Makiney Hooper Snow Matthew Rusch Adam doyle Jay Cooper Ben Stewart James Evans Brad Cronk RUSSELL GERNANNT Nicholas Tsotakos Erik Språng Uri Sacharow William Madrid Thomas D Choate Aditya S Choksi Brandon Wilson RACHEL KEYS Whiskey Tribe Trip Brennan Shelby Benton Anthony Elias Ryan Wolfe Rosemary H. Andrus Dennis Groome James Griese Rob Lawler Directed by: Greg Edited by: Rachel Ambelang & Greg Produced by: Meredith Engstrom & Stefano Pennisi & Greg Cinematography by: Bernard Hunt Created by: Greg #newyearseve #happynewyear #champagne #partylikeits1999