Anyone still able to get Four Loko?

[JeffTD]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/make-your-own-four-loko-homebrew

Be safe now kids.

Oh shit, this is hilarious.

My friends and I had a drink we called the Sidewalk Slam; you drink a 40oz of OE or Mickey's down to the label, and then fill it back up with Four Loko. It actually ended up tasting really good because the 40 watered down the normally shit Four Loko flavor, but it got you a really solid buzz for like 6 bucks.

Gonna have to try it with some different flavored Jolly Ranchers, though - Watermelon was the worst Four Loko flavor, by far.

 

[LosingReality]

They still have the right up the street from me. Gonna get one tonight actually. I drank one the other night, and its very werid feeling. Like i couldnt tell if i was buzzed or wanted to go run around the block. lol

 

[Jind]

Perhaps it's the old man in me, but I just don't get it - these fruity as shit malt beverages. I'll take my microbrews any day of the week over some watermelon flavored energy drink that happens to have alcohol in it. It's about the flavor for me - give me a nice porter please.

 

[Wolfeman]

Still have some at places here in Ohio.

I believe it was created here too.

 

[Wolfeman]

And I don't get why this stuff creates such a stir. People buy bottles of 35% ABV vodka, mix it with energy drinks, and drink the whole shebang in one night. I don't see vodka or regular redbull getting banned anytime soon.

 

[ratsapprentice]

Because this shit is marketed at kids

 

[LosingReality]

Perhaps it's the old man in me, but I just don't get it - these fruity as shit malt beverages. I'll take my microbrews any day of the week over some watermelon flavored energy drink that happens to have alcohol in it. It's about the flavor for me - give me a nice porter please.

Actually the 4 locos taste like ass.....VERY bad. Its really somthing you have to drink after having a few beers.

 

[JeffTD]

And I don't get why this stuff creates such a stir. People buy bottles of 35% ABV vodka, mix it with energy drinks, and drink the whole shebang in one night. I don't see vodka or regular redbull getting banned anytime soon.

While I agree, the (flawed) argument they're going to use against this is that fertilizer and gasoline are (relatively) harmless on their own, but nobody's going to sell them combined.

Because this shit is marketed at kids

This is where I really disagree - I've literally NEVER seen any kind of marketing for this stuff, outside of posters in liquor stores. Four Loko was more of a "word of mouth" type of thing among college students, and kids trying to be cool and copy their older peers took hold of it and fucked it up for everyone else.

 

[LosingReality]

Im drinking one right now.

 

[LosingReality]

Anyone wanna go joggin with me?

 

[ratsapprentice]

This is where I really disagree - I've literally NEVER seen any kind of marketing for this stuff, outside of posters in liquor stores. Four Loko was more of a "word of mouth" type of thing among college students, and kids trying to be cool and copy their older peers took hold of it and fucked it up for everyone else.

Obviously they aren't going to have children in their adverts.

But the flashy packaging, in comparison to say...Guinness
And the fact that these are extremely sweet drinks, with virtually no alcohol taste left at all.
I can't talk for what it's like in the States, but over here these kind of drinks are targeted at 12-15 year olds......

 

[setyouranchor]

I think I spoke to Jeff about this a while ago (and had a thread on it). A few friends of mine went out to Cali this summer and my best friend ended up falling off a horse and breaking his neck due to Four Loko. He had two cans and said he was unbelievably drunk. Call him a lightweight or whatever but bottom line is the drink is pretty dangerous. My other friends drank it too and said its the cheapest/fastest way to get VERY drunk and its mainly kids that drink it. He's still having surgery for it now.

I know every alcoholic drink has a warning and a drinking age which is fair enough. All my friends were 21 and over.

Meh, just my 2p

 

[Wolfeman]

My experience with Loko and Sparks has been this- it's hard to get a buzz/drunk feeling from them because of the additives, so you drink more, and more, and more, until the additives give me a headache/fever/sickness so I stop drinking them. I think I almost had a heart attack one time. Yet they still don't get me the drunk feeling, which is the whole point of drinking in the first place. So I find them kinda worthless.

 

[Eddy]

A few friends of mine went out to Cali this summer and my best friend ended up falling off a horse and breaking his neck due to Four Loko. He had two cans and said he was unbelievably drunk.

The drink made him get up on a horse while drunk and pushed him down breaking his neck?

Call him a lightweight or whatever but bottom line is the drink is pretty dangerous.

So it seems.

 

[ratsapprentice]

I wouldn't call the drink itself dangerous, but the fact is that caffeine+alcohol is a very bad idea.

Mix that in with young kids trying to get drunk, not a great idea.......

 

[Wolfeman]

On a side note, we should all be drinking Black Tooth Grins right now!

 

[Jind]

I ran out to my favorite micro-brewery, Willamantic Brewing Company, this afternoon (went to get my brother a gift certificate for Christmas) and filled my Growler full of:

First Class Festive Ale
Unfiltered Double IPA loaded with English Pale and Rye malts and aggressively hopped with our own homegrown varieties, Nugget, and Magnum. 8.3%abv

Oh yea baby - now that's what I call a drink. Have a pint poured in front of me right now. You can have your Four Loko, I'll keep my beer.