I'm just going to start this entry with an editorial note - I feel like a horse's ass posting this immediately following Bruce talking about his fantastic mead, but sadly.. that's how this entry is just going to have to roll.
Last year's big boozey news story was Four Loko, a juiced up, caffienated buzz bomber full of 12% alcohol, caffiene, weird "energy supplements" and nasty fake fruity flavors like fruit punch, watermelon, grape and berry. Turns out that if you give college age drinkers that much booze and caffiene in a tall boy can and they get stupid, sometimes dead.
Cue the moral panic, emergency law passing in several states and eventually, the manufacturer neutered the beverage
The fine folks at Gizmodo, a tech blog, for reasons of science and hatred for humanity, have just released their "Faux Loco" recipe that uses energy tablets, malt liquor and a few other ingredients to make your own at home.
So, yeah, that exists... *sigh*
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I remember reading a story (LA Weekly?) that after the ban, the LA distributor dropped a bunch of cases on Skid Row... but when they intereviewed the homeless down there, even they refused to drink that crap!
At the 7-11 next to the shop and bringing it into a meeting and it took a good many Falcons to go through the one can
Not one of your finer Grand Hydro moments. :p
as the Grand Hydro is to increase our education and sometimes that means dipping into the moments of terror that we might have!
... It is a job you approach with vigor! :-)