How can I make fake bottles of (non-alcoholic -- or low-alcohol) Guinness? This is for a play. The audience will be very close to the stage. The beer will be poured from Guinness bottles to glasses.
The play (Conor McPhereson's "The Weir") is set in a pub in rural Northern Ireland.
In the play, the tap is broken, so the characters all drink Guinness from bottles. One character has three over the course of this 90-minute play.
NOTE: they don't drink directly from the bottles. The bartender pours the Guinness from the bottles into glasses, so we can't fake it by somehow making using opaque bottles. I guess we could use opaque glasses, but that would be odd.
The actor playing him doesn't want to drink three bottles, because he has a long speech at the end of the play, and he thinks he'll forget his lines if he's tipsy.
The problem is that Guinness has such a
distinctive look. Black with foam. I don't know if there's a way to fake it.
And even if I CAN fake it,
how do I put the fake Guinness inside real Guinness bottles and re-cap them so that they don't lose all their carbonation, so that there's still foam when they're poured into glasses?
I've contacted other directors who worked on the play in the past. They all just used real bottles of Guinness.
Not so sure about recreating the look of the beer itself - maybe root beer dyed with some blue food coloring? I don't know how the foam will stack up.
posted by backseatpilot at 7:31 AM on September 10, 2010