Four Loco

[Anonymous No.18339775]

Member when these were giving college kids heart attacks?

[Anonymous No.18339899]

>>18339775
Everything since the 90s has been so retarded. Prime example.

[Anonymous No.18339913]

>>18339775
>its climate change
>its gardening soil
>its four loko
lmao, tick tock vaxxies

[Anonymous No.18339925]

I had one of those (on top of a fuckload of other drinks) and it felt like I was spiked with a date rape drug, the hangover lasted for days and was fucking awful. From one tin. Never again.

[Anonymous No.18339945]

>>18339775
Was fortunately done with college by the time this became a thing.
Back in my day you gave yourself heart attacks with cocaine and liquor, or cocaine and heroin.

[Anonymous No.18339953]

>>18339775
fucken loved those, there was homeless guy that would buy alcohol for us but he was concerned about buying 4lokos for...he did anyways but we got a stern warning
this is the closet i can get but is just not the same.

[Anonymous No.18339955]

>>18339775
Was drinking those in high school. You make a sidewalk slam with them. Drink half a 40oz and then pour a 4loko in the glass 40 bottle. Tasted better than either alone and got you shitty.

[Anonymous No.18340016]

>>18339775
you get 5 redbulls and 7 shots of vodka in ONE can
wouldn't that mean the can is like 75% ABV

[Anonymous No.18340041]

>>18339775
I'd still rather drink FourLoko over getting the vax.

[Anonymous No.18340046]

The only reason these got banned is because they taste like candy and women treated them like Smirnoff Ice, downing six at a time and ruining their livers. When used for their intended purpose (drinking one to get alert + a mild buzz for going out to the bar) they were perfectly fine. I hate women so much bros they’ve been fucking everything up since the garden of eden

[Anonymous No.18340077]

>>18340046
>drinking one to get alert + a mild buzz
bro im no light weight but one of these was a pretty strong buzz if you weren't a complete alcoholic
plus they're a 24oz can so nobody was drinking 6 cans
The real problem was they creeped up slowly so people didn't realize just how drunk they were until the sugar wore of after a hour or two and by then you're ripping cabinet doors off and putting cheese in the dishwasher

[Anonymous No.18340085]

>>18340016
Red Bull is already more like 8 ounces vs a 24 ounce Four Loko.
From there it'd just require a bit more caffeine by volume to make it 5 times instead of 3 times.
And for alcohol, it's saying it's equal to 7 shots of vodka.
Vodka is 40% ABV, so that'd be 7 * .4 = 2.8 ounces of pure alcohol, and .12 * 24 ounces of Four Loko would be 2.88 ounces of pure alcohol.
If you use more like 1.5 oz per shot glass though then that Four Loko wouldn't cover that much vodka.
Depends on your country mostly what a shot glass amounts to apparently.

[Anonymous No.18340092]

>>18340046
>women
If I remember correctly it was entirely or near entirely just young male patients who kept endinng up at hospitals due to Four Loko.
Women are the cause of many problems, but men usually have women beat when it comes to problems related to drinking and/or partying.

[Anonymous No.18340094]

>>18339775
That pic only makes me want to try Four Loko even more.

[Anonymous No.18340113]

>>18340046

[Anonymous No.18340116]

>>18340094
they are very sweet and have a very powerful flavor Gold is like boiled down monster
try sour apple

[Anonymous No.18340162]

When I turned 21 my dad gave me a cheap 9mm pistol and four cans of Four Loko.

[Anonymous No.18340171]

>>18339775
I saw red bull or monster with alcohol in it recently, I thought it was banned after the panic over these but I guess not.
The bad thing about them is the caffeine disguises the drunkenness so you have people who have no idea how drunk they really are and then get alcohol poisoning.

[Anonymous No.18340200]

>>18339925
I think biologically normally all that booze would make you feel super drunk and you would slowdown however all the caffine that mixed in counteracts it which means you dont feel drunk that night but it rapes you the next morning

[Anonymous No.18340204]

>>18339955
... bruh

[Anonymous No.18340209]

>>18340092
>>18340046
Yeah they tasted like an energy drink so frat bros would make pledges chug them and they would die

[Anonymous No.18340227]

>>18340116
gold is pineapple isn't it? nothing like monster...

[Anonymous No.18340234]

>>18340227
nvm it's been a while and that's how i remember it tasting but i can't find any confirmation online. ppl say it's a mix of flavors

[Anonymous No.18340240]

>>18340162
how many years are you serving for involuntary manslaughter?

[Anonymous No.18340270]

>>18340094
They raped it 12 years ago

[Anonymous No.18340281]

These were popular when I was I high school. I was 17 when a friend introduced me to them. Chugged a whole can in less than five minutes and threw up 30 minutes later

[Anonymous No.18340297]

>>18340270
that was the second time they were forced to change the recipe, the OG 4loko also had wormwood in it like Absinthe

[Anonymous No.18340366]

>>18339775
I blow peoples minds when I tell them they came in glass bottles at one point

[Anonymous No.18340409]

>>18339775
I haven’t had one of these in years, not since I graduated college. Even just thinking about four loko is hurting my stomach.

[Anonymous No.18340430]

>>18339913
2 more weeks amirite

[Anonymous No.18341342]

>>18339955
sounds like a bastard brass monkey

[Anonymous No.18341433]

>>18339775
Fuck I loved those things.

[Anonymous No.18341443]

>>18339775
I wish more would have died

[Anonymous No.18341525]

>>18341443
im sorry you were jacking off to anima while other highschool kids were out have fun and getting drunk of 4loko

[Anonymous No.18341578]

>>18339775
Heart attacks of the 2000s hit different.

[Anonymous No.18341589]

>>18339775
had one of the 2 of the sour ones a week ago because i fell off my meds. the green apple was good but the raspberry was awful

[Anonymous No.18341597]

>>18341589
>the green apple was good
yea they are tolerable, the quicky mart in my old town had them for $2.50 but where i'm at now they're $3.75 so no longer a deal

[Anonymous No.18341602]

Four loko woke up the white racial soul in us so of course the jews banned it

[Anonymous No.18341652]

>>18340016
Yeah that inforgraphic is bullshit. It's just three standard drinks and at most two lowpower energy drinks.
Yet again, the histrionics of soccer moms ruined something once fun

[Anonymous No.18341683]

>>18341652
>Yet again, the histrionics of soccer moms ruined something once fun
I more blame frat kids for giving themselves literal heart attacks.
Fraternities should have been banned. Four Loko was just one of many methods frats have used over the centuries to endanger health in the most retarded ways they can find.

[Anonymous No.18341689]

>>18341652
>t's just three standard drinks
its 5.5 standard drinks and two energy drinks plus wormwood and a lot of sugar which prevent you from realizing how drunk you are.
now here's the really important part... they never tested consistently one day you could drink two 4lokos and be fine the next day one would have you blackout fighting a cop

[Anonymous No.18341701]

>>18341683
it was never just thee alcohol, around that time xanax was exploding all over the scene plus weed was went from regs to +15% THC so one bar,1blunt and one 4loko could easily take down serious alcoholic and drug addicts.

[Anonymous No.18341751]

I was the only person who liked this.

[Anonymous No.18341867]

I drank these in college

[Anonymous No.18341902]

>>18341751
I didn't dislike Bud E.
But I did have a weird experience with it where some girl hired by Budweiser showed up at the house we were renting at the time and gave us free Bud E trial samples (was in Tempe AZ i.e. the ASU campus, back around 2005 or 2006).
We had a lot of marketing people targeting us around ASU campus at that time, but was weird since this was an alcoholic beverage and also we were underage at the time.

[Anonymous No.18341935]

>>18339775
Now I want to make a high alcohol homebrew, add some caffeine and back sweeten, then carbonate it

[Anonymous No.18342820]

>>18341867
How black are you? Brothers prefer the Kang over a Steelie.

[Anonymous No.18342831]

how do you rank brothers?
2x 24packs of Miller LITE a week here
i've blacked out twice in the last week so i think i'm gonna stop for a few months

[Anonymous No.18342858]

>>18340077
Nobody drinks 6 cans..... for you

[Anonymous No.18342905]

>>18342820
I'm white

[Anonymous No.18342911]

>>18341867
That is most definitely what's up

[Anonymous No.18342942]

The only good thing a Kappa Sig has done was invented Four Loko

[Anonymous No.18342954]

>>18342831
in between 7th and 8th decile I think. I don't drink every weekend, but if I do it's more than 2 drinks.

[Anonymous No.18342973]

>>18341935
i doing that right now
you don't need to back sweeten on high gravity brews because you're starting with a crazy amount of sugar and don't typically run it dry
12lbs of sugar, 1 pack of champagne yeast and some yeast nutrient in a 5 gal jug give it 1 week then add in some koolaid packets BAM you got a 14% ABV homemade four loko

[Anonymous No.18342981]

>>18342831
i cut way back now i only have 63 standard drinks per week

[Anonymous No.18342995]

>>18342831
>>18342981
Normally I drink 8 or 9 drinks a week.

I like a draft sized beer when I play pool on Friday and Saturday and I'll have a beer or two if its hot after work.

[Anonymous No.18343023]

>>18342973
fermenting straight sugar?... weirds me out man.

[Anonymous No.18343040]

>>18341867
Reminds me of playing Edward 40 Hands

[Anonymous No.18343048]

>>18343023
I hate how everyone's terrified of sugar now. Fucking keto meme.

[Anonymous No.18343072]

>>18343023
>>18343048
I think what makes it fucky is normally people ferment fruit juice or something, although I guess Rum uses a lot of sugar

[Anonymous No.18343085]

>>18343072
Fermenting always just operates on sugar though, doesn't it? Like by definition it's conversion of sugar to alcohol.

[Anonymous No.18343098]

>>18343048
It's not that there's sugar remaining, it's that fermenting straight sucrose - basically just a big pile of yeast food with no lead ups or wait time - can lead the yeast to making intermediate products that it doesn't clean up... which...
>>18343072
works for rum - you want some funk in the final product. But even with too much Candi/sugar in beer or wine, you get some weird cidery, estery nonsense. I guess it should go well with sweetness and fruit/artificial fruit flavours, but it's still picking at my prejudice.

[Anonymous No.18343101]

>>18343085
Dumb esl poster

[Anonymous No.18343105]

>>18343085
Enzymes (working at different temps, etc.) slowly break down higher level sugars, starches, etc. so the yeast can work mostly on simple sugars at a controlled-ish rate. When there's not quite enough to eat, the yeast cleans up after itself. This is really oversimplified, but giving the yeast all its food at once leads to things that aren't just ethanol and CO2, and the yeast might go dormant or die before cleaning up.

[Anonymous No.18343112]

>>18339899
>checked
Truly...I'm also coming around to the Idea that we all died in 2012 or maybe around the big Aug 21, 2017 eclipse by some catastrophic "something", and the world was instantly re-made in some sort of purgatory world.
Anyone else notice how badly the luck plane has been slanted towards BAD LUCK?
It's seriously been like that for most everyone I know--
>get little boost of good luck, a win or other positive thing...
>less than 24 hrs later something happens to completely destroy that "good thing/luck" and sets you back even further.
INB4 Schizo-post

[Anonymous No.18343139]

>>18339945
im sure it was still cocaine and heroine back then but the government loves to blame scapegoats and ignore things like the chinese flooding the country with methaphetamines.

>thats right goy... its uh... its uh these indpendent caffine drinks. no, nobody ever mixes alchohol with cocacola or sprite. its exclusively this product owned by an outsider. wew no worries though, we will ban it and your children can continue to go into debt doing drugs and drinking while persueing their higher goyification.

[Anonymous No.18343141]

>>18343098
straight sugar is the cleanest, the flavors come from the yeasts brewers yeast can't eats all the different kinds of complex sugars so it makes distinct flavors some good some bad but champagne yeast like EC1118 can eat all the complex sugars so you get a very neutral flavor which is bad if you're trying to make something like rum or whiskey

[Anonymous No.18343154]

>>18339775
When I was like 12 my uncle got me like 6 of these which I drained and passed out. They make your ass hurt really bad the next day

[Anonymous No.18343157]

>>18343101
I dom't think you know how to use ESL as an insult.
I'm definitely not ESL and this isn't much of conversation where awkward wording has anything to do with communication problems. I wouldn't even say there have been communication problems (except maybe your own in not knowing how to use ESL as an insult). We were just talking about what all fermentation as a process entails.

[Anonymous No.18343177]

>>18340209
literally one person died ever, and she had taken diet pills you're not supposed to combine with any caffeine let alone a large amount and alcohol

[Anonymous No.18343564]

>>18343141
It'll be clean if you ferment as cold as your yeast will let you, and give it some time at the final gravity to clean up (but not enough that it autolyzes and gives you soapbrew). If you just bring it straight up to the max ABV it can handle at room temp, you'll get all kinds of weird shit, especially if there's any sulfur in your water. Basically you're contending with acetaldehyde (which can give a green apple / cider note in small amounts), diacetyl (which can seem buttery, and can work with some things to give a rum or bourbon-like impression), simple esters, and possibly some sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, especially if you have any sulfur in your water source, and especially if you use high-grav yeast (like champagne, some kveiks, turbo, etc.)

Some yeast can digest sugars as complex as ribose, but they all prefer mono and disaccharides. The digestion process in a higher ethyl- solution (like in a runaway fermentation) will produce noticeable levels of ethyl-methanoate (rum) and ethyl-ethanoate (pear, nail polish). EC1118 will usually clean up ok, but not in high grav at room temp - for intance, it makes all kinds of nonsense with pasteurized clover honey.

[Anonymous No.18343608]

>>18342831
used to be at around 15-20 per week until a couple months ago. not all that much but i think it still caused me to develop mild heart palpitations

[Anonymous No.18343615]

>>18343564
>and ethyl-ethanoate (pear, nail polish)
i had a problem with that at my last house but where i live now the ground water is crazy pure, lower ppm then distilled water (seriously) then it gets pH balanced by a calcium block then through a carbon filter, it seems to work great
I'm using red star Premier Cuvee and only taking to 80% of it potential, temp is a stable 70f, a little DAP and some yeast nutrient so it doesn't stress.
i also bring the sugar to boil first which seems to help, i heard somewhere it it converts fructose into glucose or something like that... idk but i heard it from a pro thats actually in the business, i just can't remember whats converting to what

[Anonymous No.18343634]

>>18343177
Kids having heart attacks without dying was still kind of a bad sign for the product too.

[Anonymous No.18343655]

>>18343634
yet the vax is totaly safe

[Anonymous No.18343669]

>>18343655
Kind of easier to defend bad problems if they're part of some treatment for worse problems.
Not like kids being bored in college was causing health problems vs. the anti-boredom vaccine of Four Loko.

[Anonymous No.18343697]

>>18343669
>Kind of easier to defend bad problems if they're part of some treatment for worse problems.
kids getting drunk in collage is a treatment, have you any idea what stressed out straight edge kids do for fun? they're the ones dissecting the neighbors cat or shooting up schools

[Anonymous No.18343699]

>>18343615
I know heat breaks down sucrose at like 186C or something like that. I don't think fructose can be converted except by enzymatic means.

70F, and it's doing ok? Like I said, it's probably just setting off my prejudice sense. I felt the same way about quick kolsching with kveiks, and now I make three a year.

[Anonymous No.18343717]

>>18343699
>I know heat breaks down sucrose at like 186C
ok yea that was it, Premier Cuvee is good up to 95f but 65f is ideal, 70f is the best i can do without putting them in a bathtub and filling with cold water and maintaining with ice since i live in hell, i wish i could get the rest of my house down to 70f but i would have a +$400 electric bill

[Anonymous No.18343728]

>>18343697
Nah, screwed up kids are always also the kids with drug and alcohol problems.

[Anonymous No.18343771]

>>18343717
It doesn't really break down into individual units though, just starts caramelizing right away. Sucrase and invertase speed up the hydrolysis, but heat really doesn't do much in that regard, at least in any way that results in separate glucose and fructose units.

[Anonymous No.18343810]

>>18343717
>>18343771
Sorry, totally forgot that you can sort of partially invert syrup at a light boil. It's gotta be fairly heavy (like 50/50) to really have a serious effect, but I guess just giving that extra little monosaccharide boost would be enough to make a noticeable difference.

[Anonymous No.18343889]

>>18339775
Those four loko and green monster drink trucks used to show up where I used to work and hand out free cases of their swill, it was pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.18343896]

Even worse was that red bull nastiness, that shit tasted like horrible cherry cough syrup from when I was a little kid.

[Anonymous No.18343897]

>>18343889
I put together side stages and DJ booths for Monster for a few summers... getting water was difficult, but they had fucking crates of ice cold monster ready to go. I'm surprised nobody died.

[Anonymous No.18343902]

>>18343897
That's the only way to do it on a hot summer day, ice cold monster.

[Anonymous No.18343936]

You can still buy something like it here in the UK

[Anonymous No.18343941]

>>18343810
i do 10lbs to 1 gallon of water

[Anonymous No.18343944]

I never have and never will drink any of these energy drinks. Thanks for reading.

[Anonymous No.18343945]

>>18343902
Not while hoisting full loaded lighting truss in the air with chains. "I can hear my heartbeat. It sounds like death metal. That's normal, right?"

[Anonymous No.18343970]

>>18342831
I'm pretty well in the bottom 60%. A six pack lasted me roughly 9 months.

[Anonymous No.18343985]

>>18343941
I'll see if I can find the chart, but yeah, that's heavy alright... I guess you'd have to invert some of that.

[Anonymous No.18343991]

>>18342831
completely teetotal, couldn't afford to drink if I wanted to.

[Anonymous No.18343999]

>>18343728
right and they are channeling those problems inward instead of taking them out on society

[Anonymous No.18344006]

>>18343936
half strength and no wormwood, might as well drink vodka and a monster

[Anonymous No.18344016]

>>18343985
oh that just when i'm inverting it, when fermenting it in a 5gal carboy its around 4gal/10lbs water/sugar

[Anonymous No.18344020]

>>18343970
when even drink at all if you're not getting a buzz?

[Anonymous No.18344075]

>>18344016
That sounds a little nicer for yeasties' digestion

[Anonymous No.18344250]

>>18344075
yeah i tried 14lbs which is the theoretical 18% ABV limit for the yeast but it made some nasty tasting fart wine that i drank in spite

[Anonymous No.18344315]

>>18341751
That shit ruled. Lost plenty of friends over that stuff

[Anonymous No.18344331]

>>18339775
I never got to try a real 4Loko. Kind of a bummer. At least I still have my JACK3D.

[Anonymous No.18344340]

>>18339955
thats gangster

[Anonymous No.18344378]

>>18344250
Hopefully you had a girlfriend at the time and brapped under the covers with her, pull the covers over and she cant escape

[Anonymous No.18344388]

>>18344378
sharing is caring

[Anonymous No.18344822]

My friend and I snuck a can each to the movie theater and I passed out 30 minutes into Planet of the Apes

[Anonymous No.18344836]

>>18339775
had one while out drinking with a buddy back in my college days, i got heart palpitations when i was 3/4th done with the can and had to sit down for a good hour to recover my senses. shit sucked, but i'd do it again

[Anonymous No.18344949]

>>18342973
Sweet cum jugs anon, I'm impressed. Can't even see the MLP doll any more.

[Anonymous No.18345544]

>>18344949
i ate it

[Anonymous No.18345957]

>>18342831
Upper ninth I guess?

Two pints per shift, maybe sit at the bar for a third after close, a shot or two on a big day, plus the wine bottles I bring home once a week or two.

[Anonymous No.18346001]

>>18342831
>pareto efficiency
as usual wapo story is literal nothingburger

[Anonymous No.18346118]

So many young girls got date raped because of those.

[Anonymous No.18346226]

>>18344006

Well this is also available. Wormwood has no psychoactive properties at the levels that would've been consumed in four loko. They just added it in because it sounded cool.

[Anonymous No.18346287]

>>18346226
>no psychoactive properties at the levels
it excites your nervous system which is compounded by alcohol
little things stack up into powerful mistakes
also that drink looks dank

[Anonymous No.18346360]

>>18340171
I know they are selling Mt. Dew with alcohol in it now, but my coworker told me it was worse than if you just mixed vodka with regular Mt. Dew.

[Anonymous No.18346373]

>>18341689
>its 5.5 standard drinks
It would have to be something like 70% ABV since beers are typically 12.5% ABV. I'm guessing that it was just the alcohol and sugar combination making people have terrible hangovers along with the caffeine making it harder for people to know how drunk they were.

FYI they are still available unadulterated in China of all places where they are colloquially known as the "lose your virginity" drink.

[Anonymous No.18346402]

>>18346118
Young girls are just retarded. There was a rich Chinese girl in my town who was like a straight-A valedictorian in high school who got sent to the ER twice for binge drinking in her first semester of college.

[Anonymous No.18346497]

>>18346373
>since beers are typically 12.5% ABV
i'm moving to where you live because where i live 3% is law
i've never pissed so much

[Anonymous No.18346502]

>>18346497
>where i live 3% is law
I thought all those laws died out in the past decade or so.

[Anonymous No.18346524]

>>18339775
i really question the 7 shots being in a four loko. idk about that man.

[Anonymous No.18346535]

>>18346502
maybe but graduated to cheap vodka long before 21

[Anonymous No.18346547]

>>18339775
I remember drinking 2 of these back to back while playing video games on a shitty laptop, blacked out and woke up to see I had puked directly onto my laptop and fried it, then made it to the bathroom to puke in the shower before passing out. Good times

[Anonymous No.18348183]

>>18346547
you win

[Anonymous No.18348229]

>>18339775
What a retarded fucking boomer-facebook tier image lmao. Four Loko only had 156mg of caffeine. Far from the 5 cans of Red Bull pictured here.

[Anonymous No.18348601]

>>18340046
I chugged 2 4loko golds in half an hour an empty stomach to pregame for a show and that fucked me sideways I barely remember seeing the band I wanted to.
I can't imagine how the OGs were

[Anonymous No.18348646]

>>18339913
>2005-2011
>vax

[Anonymous No.18349500]

If you really want to experience an OG 4Loko, just mix a 10+% abv malt liquor with a blueberry/watermelon Red Bull at about 75:25 ratio.

[Anonymous No.18350316]

>>18342911
Based Cobro

[Anonymous No.18350318]

>>18348229

Lol

>five cans of Red Bull at 81mg of caffeine a piece?

>405mg of caffeine is pretty much the same as 156mg anyway, give them that shock value

[Anonymous No.18350324]

>>18346502
I think it's just utah

[Anonymous No.18350328]

>>18340113
this image could be used to decimate half of 4chan

[Anonymous No.18350393]

>>18350324
can confirm although you can get normal beer at state stores

[Anonymous No.18350789]

>>18339775
to date the most drunk i've been in my life was when me and another buddy split i belive just 4 fourlokos and had 2 a piece, we might have been drunk already though. ended up passing out in the woods, coming home extremely dirty (we passed out in the dirt) and my gf who i was engaged to at the time ended up kicking me out
>10 of 10 would do it again

[Anonymous No.18350852]

>>18339775
I remember there being some website that collected stories that people experienced with the OG Four Loco.
They weren't available where I lived so I always wondered if it was just empty hype or a real thing.

[Anonymous No.18351513]

>>18342831
I lie to the doctors and go in the 2/wk category. Hope someone out there is also bluffing to round out the stats.

[Anonymous No.18351527]

>>18339775
So one four loko is equal to 5 red bulls and 7 hand sanitizer dispensers.

[Anonymous No.18351544]

Also remember seeing the Tilts. Wonder what those are like.

[Anonymous No.18352244]

>>18342831
Proudly managed to go from top decile to bottom decile before it got me killed.

[Anonymous No.18352285]

>Its called an energy drink
>Generally fat people who don't exercise drink them
???

[Anonymous No.18352327]

>>18340046
based and bible pilled, women in general ruin everything its why we're not allowed to have MSG in food even though it's literally a magic seasoning powder that makes everything taste better. Some fucking soccer moms a few decades ago got """headaches""" after eating chinese food so now we cant have anything nice.

[Anonymous No.18352366]

>>18339953
Ah yes the skull fuck

[Anonymous No.18352376]

>>18352244
good on you lad

[Anonymous No.18353035]

>>18352327
They just use yeast extract which is the same glutamate under a different name.