[HN Gopher] The electrifying rise and litigious fall of energy beer
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The electrifying rise and litigious fall of energy beer
Author : prismatic
Score : 14 points
Date : 2024-07-10 18:12 UTC (4 days ago)
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| parpfish wrote:
| Millennials will talk about four loko the same way their parents
| talked about lawn darts
| solardev wrote:
| Wow, as a Millennial, I must've totally missed the memo on this
| stuff. Never heard of Four Loko or energy beers at all...
| sounds disgusting.
| antonvs wrote:
| They weren't actually called energy beers.
|
| In the US, they fall under the same legal category as beer,
| which is "malt beverage", but beer is just one type of malt
| beverage, drinks like Four Loko are another.
|
| They're closer to drinks like "hard lemonade" or "hard tea",
| which aren't beer. They're made by adding malt liquor to some
| flavored drink.
| TylerE wrote:
| Tho off brand Red Bull with a couple of rotgut vodka shots
| already mixed in.
| sneak wrote:
| You can't buy lawn darts anymore. Every bar will make you a
| vodka redbull.
| maneesh wrote:
| Will they put four vodkas and 3 red bulls in a single glass
| for the price of a college students budget? Because that was
| a four loko
| antonvs wrote:
| You'd have to ask for more than three and a half shots of
| vodka to match the alcohol in a 22oz Four Loko can.
| antonvs wrote:
| Correcting myself: I was thinking of a different can
| apparently. That 12% ABV can mentioned in the article
| corresponds to 4.4 shots of vodka (using standard US 1.5 oz
| shots of 80 proof vodka.)
| mort96 wrote:
| Lots of bars around here will also have lawn darts which you
| can play while drinking your 8th vodka redbull, which I find
| interesting
| hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
| Heck, just sell the energy drink by itself and subtly market it
| as a mixer - probably cheaper to make with higher profit margins.
| There is a reason "Red Bull and vodka" is popular, and that the
| founders of Red Bull were mega billionaires.
| gambiting wrote:
| Sure, but then you're competing against red bull and every
| other energy drink on the planet, of which there are loads.
| People invent this stuff obviously because it's a relatively
| empty nieche.
| nosmokewhereiam wrote:
| "Not just stupid, but aggressively stupid" - referring to adding
| caffeine to malt liquor.
|
| *It was from a comedy bit and I don't recall it.
| Zak wrote:
| I always thought the litigation and regulatory pressure over this
| was misplaced. Consuming a single serving of the most outrageous
| product described in the article (22oz, 12% alcohol, 156mg
| caffeine) is not acutely dangerous to a healthy adult who isn't
| about to drive a car. Chugging multiple of them is a bad decision
| of course, but it's just as easy to drink other alcoholic
| beverages to excess - perhaps easier with hard liquor.
| TylerE wrote:
| Very few adults, especially if we're talking 40+, are healthy.
| By that age almost everyone has high blood pressure or asthma
| or a bad knee, or whatever.
| itishappy wrote:
| A can of FourLoco contains 4.75 servings.
| Zak wrote:
| I assume you mean manufacturer-recommended servings printed
| on the label. I meant drinking one can.
| pbj1968 wrote:
| They're still around, just not as caffeinated. Still fun to drive
| around with one between your legs. Just alternate sips with a
| Monster.
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