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Do you like getting drunk but hate the taste of alcohol. Are you a vodka/soda guy (or gal) too impatient to mix a simple adult beverage? When you’re drinking water, do you often wish you were drunk of your ass already, for crying out loud?
If so, it’s possible that you’re an alcoholic. But never mind that, for now. What you need to know is that a new beverage is about to come on the market, and it will make your life a helluva lot easier in certain respects. (And probably terrible in others?)
Air Premium Clear Malt Beverage is Fourloko’s borrrrrring, carbonated cousin. A simple mixture, just water and alcohol (plus carbonation), Air is advertised to be an alcoholic beverage that tastes like water. 95 calories. A minimalist design. 4% ABV. And a patented process by which fermented malt is made colourless, odourless and without flavour. It’s almost as though you’re not really drinking at all. Or at least you can tell yourself that, while you drain can after bland can of the stuff. (There are berry and citrus-flavoured options, too, if you feel like getting wild.)
The product is set to launch very soon in across America. If Fourloko, which was not shy about being an alcoholic beverage, got yanked off the market for its delicious, delirium-inducing drinkability. Air’s future is perhaps even more uncertain. It’ll certainly be fun to try, though. And then go out for a real drink, of course. [Foodbeast]
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Anyone else see sales of this rocketing around the beginning of April/end of May?
Errr… waht am I missing? (Sorry to be thick).
I was wondering the same. Though I’m assuming Friar also meant ‘end of April/beginning of May’, or was it deliberately 2 separate time periods?
I meant april fools day, but said may instead of march. Also, giz seems to pick and choose when to let me know I have a notification, so sorry for the late reply!
April Fools day. Getting people drunk without them knowing why. Of course I completely forgot that it’s March that comes before April, not May. Woops!
That’s going to be leathal!
People will drink it really fast and just ge mashed!
If it doesn’t burn on the way don, then it shouldn’t be allowed
Damn you iPad! Is there a way to edit posts?
Nope.
It’s only 4%, so it probably wouldn’t burn on the way down anyway. I don’t think it would be worse than chugging beer, except it’s probably going to be more expensive, and likely less alcohol in it. And, thinking about it, if it’s really carbonated, then it will burn on the way down (I can’t drink things that are very fizzy myself).
Great way to sneak alcohol into places where you’re not allowed to take alcohol?
“What’s in that bottle? Looks like alcohol…”
“This? No, its just water”.
“Let me smell it… yep its water”
School for instance…
Sounds like a great way to drink /too/ much too quicky.
Drinking too much too quickly won’t generally kill you unless it exacerbates a pre-existing condition, provided you have some sort of non-alcoholic liquid to keep you from dehydrating. The problem with four loco was the caffeine content and the ease combined meant it could be drained repeatedly by people too stupid to have anything but, and its contents dehydrated them even faster.
People in my area of the UK have been drinking WKD mixed with a quadruple shot of vodka for years, can’t taste a thing, they go down faster than a beer and are much stronger, but they’ve never been any problem. And we get on fine with red bull and vodka. Silly yanks can’t handle their caffeinated drinking…
I am in fact one of those strange people who doesn’t like the taste of alcohol, perhaps I will finally get drunk thanks to this, I hear it’s great fun.
Nobody likes the taste of alcohol, or we’d all be drinking vodka, no?
Hmm, I suppose, it just seems most people can stand the taste when combined with various flavourings.
Whatever it takes to get your buzz on, I suppose