Powdered Alcohol

[edro]

I fail to see significant advantage of handling a powder compared to a liquid, unless you're in a situation where water is limited - so not an ideal situation to get wrecked.

Weight.
The largest cost of any beverage is distribution.
They could distribute powder and mix with water on site.

What is cheaper?
Shipping a packet of koolaid powder, or a gallon of pre-mixed koolaid?

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

seems like this was more of a regulatory issue. powdered alcohol has been around for a while.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I see Pixy Sticks being much more popular in the near future. Add a pinch of Palcohol and have the equivalent of a daiquiri in your pocket. I would have killed for these as a teen.

 

[Brian Stirling]

How bout powdered water? All you need to reconstitute is ... water!


Brian

 

[Miramonti]

I suspect this will be abused more than women on Superbowl Sunday.

 

[dawp]

http://drinkingmadeeasy.com/beer/on-the-go-powdered-beer/

http://www.patsbcb.com/product/pale-rail/

 

[KeithTalent]

Cool. I bet some restaurants will cook up neat things with this stuff.

KT

 

[IronWing]

Candy is dandy but liquor is... candy?

 

[Rakehellion]

Get wasted on that on Friday night, and you could still be intoxicated on Monday morning.

Sounds like a good party!

 

[Imp]

Wonder when someone will try snorting the shit or barely diluting and injecting. Yum...

 

[sandorski]

Weight.
The largest cost of any beverage is distribution.
They could distribute powder and mix with water on site.

What is cheaper?
Shipping a packet of koolaid powder, or a gallon of pre-mixed koolaid?

Probably this. Although, it also opens up all kinds of potential new Alcohol based drinks and stuff.

 

[Anubis]

Wonder when someone will try snorting the shit or barely diluting and injecting. Yum...

the second it becomes available

same thing with someone snorting it

people will die in under a week

i give it 6 months after it comes out before its banned

 

[IGBT]

you dopers will be snorting this crap in no time.

 

[destrekor]

you dopers will be snorting this crap in no time.

Are you a puritan teetotaler?

 

[DrPizza]

It seems to be a legitimate concern, albeit one that probably couldn't be proven. Makes sense from a logical standpoint that making it more convenient and with a variety of flavors would increase the number of people who drink.

I think the best way to illustrate this would be with drinks that come flavored, like Mike's Hard Lemonade, frozen margarita mixes, daiquiris, etc. The presumption would be that the alcohol companies wouldn't bother making these things if it was just to serve the people that already drank. Otherwise, why waste the time and money on creating the products and marketing them.

But, yea, probably unable to be proven since it could just be to keep people that currently drink interested in drinking.

So, would you argue that if auto-makers came up with a different model of car, that it would cause more people to start driving? "I didn't like any of those cars, but now there's a car I like, therefore I'll start driving." Or, perhaps, does creating a new model of car steal some of your competition's customers?

 

[Wonderful Pork]

Regulator reverses approval of powdered alcohol

 

[feralkid]

Are you a puritan teetotaler?

The only things he likes are hate and snap judgement.

 

[mrjminer]

So, would you argue that if auto-makers came up with a different model of car, that it would cause more people to start driving? "I didn't like any of those cars, but now there's a car I like, therefore I'll start driving."? Or, perhaps, does creating a new model of car steal some of your competition's customers

I'd argue both of those are possibilities.

 

[Miramonti]

Regulator reverses approval of powdered alcohol

LOL

 

[mrjminer]

LOL

That's pretty funny. Surprised they did it so quickly.

From the article, seems like it might be from shooting themselves in the foot:

It also proposed adding the powder to food, recommending combinations such as vodka and eggs.
Those posts have since been taken down, and the company claims it was simply experimenting with edgy marketing that was not meant to go public. "As Palcohol is a new product, we have yet to understand its potential of being added to food," the firm said.

 

[Rinaun]

I read in that article that it's available in japan and the netherlands.

Links pls? I wanna try some for justice.

 

[SMOGZINN]

That's pretty funny. Surprised they did it so quickly.

From the article, seems like it might be from shooting themselves in the foot:

From an article on CNN the approval was pulled due to some question about the proper way to label the alcoholic content of the powder.

 

[mrjminer]

From an article on CNN the approval was pulled due to some question about the proper way to label the alcoholic content of the powder.

I completely missed that skimming through it. On closer inspection (in the article wonderful pork posted at least), they don't say it's the alcohol content, just the amount of powder that comes in the packet. That be in direct correlation to the alcohol content, however. Haven't actually read anything about the product other than whatever I've perused from this thread

 

[Imp]

On the darker side of things, it's vodka in a packet*.

*Vodka only if properly mixed and diluted according to instructions.

Will 5 packets dumped into a brownie or a single shot glass turn it into roofies?

 

[Markbnj]

Well, this should be interesting for cops trying to enforce open-container laws.