Caffeinated Beer Becomes a Reality 657
Cylar writes "CNN is reporting that Anheuser-Bush has developed a sweet, caffeinated beer they are dubbing B(E). Intended to compete with the trendy sweet concotions popular on the club scenes (such as Smirnoff Ice), it will contain caffeine, guarana, and ginseng." Not sure how I feel about ginseng in my brew, so I'll have to study this with a few cases.
MMmmmm Beer (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, yeah. Beer busts, beer blasts, keggers, stein hoists, AA meetings, beer night. It's wonderful, Marge. I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
And now he can stay up late drinking beer without passing out -- because it's got caffeine!
Buzz Beer (Score:5, Funny)
Drew Carry said it best... (Score:4, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Ew. (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory Simpsons (Score:4, Funny)
Aussie Bartender: Beer it is
Marge: No, coffee
Bartender: Beer
Marge: Cof-fee
Bartender: Be-er
Marge: C-O
Bartender: B-E
This is a good first step! (Score:5, Funny)
Stimulants and Depressants together at last! (Score:2, Funny)
Yay!
I'll stick to Irish Coffee.
great... belligerent drunks that stay up all night (Score:5, Funny)
Americans and Beer (Score:3, Funny)
As an inhabitant of a country that makes great beers, I have to say I find this highly appaling.
You might wonder why I even care - after all, that beer is not exported to Europe and we can still drink our own (beerlike) beer. There's just one problem - the Football WC (you call it soccer...)
Stupid FIFA has a contract with an American beer producer. Guess which. That means we can only buy American beer in the stadion.
Someone from Europe who's pissed at piss...
Guano? (Score:3, Funny)
At first glance I thought I saw "guano" in there...
This reminds me of both Simpsons and Futurama... (Score:5, Funny)
Immediately following that, though, I thought of a Simpsons episode, then a Futurama episode:
Homer: Uh, yeah. I need something that will keep me awake, alert, and reckless all night long.
Clerk: Well, Congress is racing back to Washington to outlaw these. [puts a bottle of pills on the counter]
Homer: [takes bottle] Sold!
[downs most of the pills on the spot]
Clerk: Hey, you can't take that many pep pills at once.
Homer: No problem, I'll balance it out with a bottle of sleeping pills. [takes another generous helping of pills]
-- "Maximum Homerdrive"
Fry: I'm never going to get used to the 31st century. [He points to his breakfast.] Caffinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch?
-- "The Series Has Landed"
To paraphrase Mike Myers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New taste to acquire (Score:5, Funny)
Oh great... (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, Sweet Jesus with a Urinal Cake (Score:5, Funny)
B/E! Now you can piss like the mighty Mississipp!!
Coffee Porter (Score:5, Funny)
He came into work one Monday, and asked what I knew about coffee. Seems he had a bottle with dinner the night before, but hadn't been to sleep yet.
Now any homebrewer can tell you that the typical formula for 5-6 gallons of beer calls for about one pot of strong coffee for a subtle but noticable flavor.
Mark, on the other hand, took a pound of french roast, ground it to the "Espresso" setting, and dumped it into secondary for two weeks. If I remember the back-of-the-envelope calculations, we figured each bottle had 500 - 700 mg of caffiene, compared to 40-70 mg in a cup of coffee.
He gave me a bottle, and we used it for shots at a party, but that's about all I could do with it.
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Can't buy it, only rent it (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:MMmmmm Beer (Score:4, Funny)
Peter: No I'm not. I'm just tired from staying up all night drinking.
Bad combo (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's probably crap. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wowie... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ew. (Score:4, Funny)
Pan Galatic Gargle Blaster (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This doesn't compete with Smirnoff (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's probably crap. (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm, coffee cans on tailpipes. Could that have been the inspiration?
Re:Gratuitous Linkage (Score:2, Funny)
Re:College kids and yuppies (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is a good first step! (Score:5, Funny)
KFG
Re:Guano? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New taste to acquire (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stimulants and Depressants together at last! (Score:2, Funny)
My personal choice as well.
The great thing about mixing stimulants and depressants is that when someone passes out they keep twitching. Talk about the life of the party.
KFG
Re:Wowie... (Score:3, Funny)
Potions are for quaffing, have you learned nothing ?
To quaff or not to quaff? which potion is the question.
Remember The Buzz Beer Moto! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:To paraphrase Mike Myers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Americans and Beer (Score:1, Funny)
Well, it's good to be pissed while your pissed, even if you've got drink piss to get pissed. Man I gotta take a leak...
Ob Futurama Ref (Score:1, Funny)
Leela: Well if you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula.
Just f__king great (Score:4, Funny)
Just what the highways need at oh-dark-thirty in the A.M... a bunch of wide awake drunks behind the wheel.
Ya want fries with that? (Score:1, Funny)
- Fat
- Salt
- Sugar
- Caffeine
- Beer
Yum!
Try this drink (Score:3, Funny)
ouzo
coke
coffee
redbull
An acquired taste, but sure to get you drunk, black you out, and keep you going!
Beer, you say? (Score:5, Funny)
Why just the other day my chauffeur took a wrong turn off of the freeway and pulled me past this run down little liquor store where this shabby looking man (who by the way was driving a Pontiac! A PONTIAC!!!) who hadn't shaved for a couple of days was walking out with a bottle of Johnny Walker Red. RED LABEL?! I exclaimed, exhaling a puff of cigar smoke and tipping my top hat back in a bemused manner. WHO ARE THESE CRETINS? I practically had my driver phone the police right then and there...
Re:This is a good first step! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:New taste to acquire (Score:4, Funny)
"The combination of alcohol and caffeine should be addictive as heroin but so far the sales haven't born that out." - Lewis Kiniski
Wait I know these people.. (Score:2, Funny)
So the target audience is fat party sluts (no man is going to drink fruity beer).
Ginko Biloba + Beer = ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's probably crap. (Score:4, Funny)
~S
Great... (Score:3, Funny)
Angry drunks
Sad drunks
Happy drunks
PLUS!
Hyper drunks
Chatty drunks
Oscillating drunks.
Woohoo.
And which genius at AB decided what beer needs is MORE diuretic effect.
Re:New taste to acquire (Score:5, Funny)
B(E)=MC^2 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:New taste to acquire (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stimulants and depressants...yum! (Score:3, Funny)
The alcohol takes the unpleasant harsh edge off the speed, and you get the euphoric effect of the alcohol without the sloppy-drunk problems. Plus you don't pass out!
Mixing drugs like this is done all the time by the pros: go into any mental ward, and ask what people are taking. You'll find most of them on a "cocktail" of drugs. Some are for the primary complaint (e.g. psychosis), and others are to manage the side-effects of the main drug.
Good times!
Re:Americans and Beer (Score:3, Funny)
Finally an explaination to all those football riots!
Drunk and hyper (Score:1, Funny)
Re:New taste to acquire (Score:1, Funny)
"ya go down but ya don't go out"
Maybe not enjoy ... (Score:4, Funny)
Caffeine and alcohol may not be all it's cracked up.
I once saw someone use Jolt for mix. By the end of the night he was so bombed he needed to sleep but so wired he couldn't sit still. Not a pretty sight.
At the time, he most assuredly was not in a good mood for the experience.
Cheers
Re:Just f__king great (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Pan Galatic Gargle Blaster (Score:3, Funny)