Alcoholics have entered a kind of renaissance where all your favorite junk food brands are offered with liquor inside and the heat's been talking off drunks with the state's power looking at opioid addicts instead.
Mike Mentzer already trained while on heavy doses of amphetamines in the late 70s, and the original Jack3d formula from over a decade ago contained DMAA (dimethylamylamine). So hard pre workouts have been a thing in the subculture for quite a while. It's just usually that amphetamines or amphetamine like substances are used instead of alcohol.
6.5 instead of 12-13 %. Probably less caffeine too, idk how much is/was in either but these are legal and the original four loko isn’t anymore so something changed.
I already did it. If you've ever used Monster as a mixer for vodka or soju, it's exactly that flavor. There's no caffeine nor any of their "energy blend," so we're not going to see a repeat of Four Loko chaos. I was going to say that I overpaid for a decaf Monster cocktail, but it looks like they discontinued the caffeine-free version so this might be the only way to get such a thing.
That's what I always get annoyed by when brands known for caffeine get into alcohol. Is it bad to mix a high or kind of high level of caffeine with alcohol given the Four Loko stuff? For sure. But shit is basically false advertising for these things. I don't drink energy drinks for the taste, and there are much better things to mix if that is the point of this drink. It isn't even a very high percent in the first place. So calling it "The Beast" is also lame af. I am guessing it is perfect for the teens that already drink a lot of regular Monsters to jump to and looks enough like the non-alcohol versions to be easy to sneak.
Yeah, but a caffeine-alcohol combo is the sort of thing the CIA would market to destabilize other countries, so the US banned prepackaged drinks with both in 2010.
Yeah, back in the day we would buy a BFC of Monster, drink like a quarter of it, and fill it up with vodka. I had the worst hangover of my teenage years when I drank this instead of water on a five mile trek to a concert in like July.
Does anyone else remember terminally online evangelicals sharing a diagram claiming that the Monster logo is a coded satanic message using Hebrew symbols?
This stuff actually doesn't have any "energy" stuff in it. It's basically just hard seltzer that is flavored like Monster. It's not too horrible but if I had the choice between this and any beer better than American light beer I'd go with the beer.