Topic: Powdered alcopop can be sold to minors

[WindAndConfusion]

http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2007/06/powdered-alcohol-for-kids.html

It's like a packet of ready-mix Kool-Aid, except it's 3% alcohol by volume and tastes like a Bacardi mixer. Also, age-restriction laws weren't written with this stuff in mind, so minors can buy it.

[TheOtherBelmont]

Interesting, I'm curious as to what it tastes like or if it even comes close to the vodkas and rums it is trying to imitate.

[Ghandi]

I was reading about this on digg today and apparently it's been around since 2005 or so. I guess it's just starting to gain popularity now. There's no question that if underage kids start to use it here in the states, there will be a bill passed with age restriction.

I wonder how it tastes.

[shock]

3% alcohol sucks. I would have to be chugging those all night just to get buzzed.

[Antares]

3% alcohol sucks. I would have to be chugging those all night just to get buzzed.

True.  But I would have been first in line when I was a minor.

[Ghandi]

What's the incentive for people that are of age? It seems like the whole market for something like this is underage persons. I can see absolutely no reason (a month from now when I can buy alcohol ) that I would buy this as opposed to actual alcohol.

[Quemaqua]

And come on, all of us were already drinking other shit when we were minors.  Don't try to deny it.  Even I had a habit that would scoff at this stuff.

[Ghandi]

I'm not saying I would buy it, of course I get the real stuff (and would buy it while I had my fake) but the only people that would conceivably buy this are minors who for, whatever reason, can't get real alcohol. Unless I just don't see some sort of advantage this has to actual alcohol.

[PyroMenace]

Sniff it like coke. Its the only way to fly.

[Quemaqua]

 

[DrSbaitso]

3% alcohol sucks. I would have to be chugging those all night just to get buzzed.

That's true. But couldn't one increase the alcohol concentration by using less water? Or would the powder not dissolve properly then? Any chemistry whizzes out there?

[Ghandi]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but using less water would do nothing, as the powder is only soluble with a certain amount of water. So, yes, essentially it would not dissolve properly. Now diluting the solution is another matter.

Of course, you could always just eat handfuls of the stuff to get drunk quicker. That sounds appealing.

[iPPi]

Interesting...

[Antares]

Wouldn't eating handfuls be the equivalent of drinking it with zero water?  The question is, does the mix only become alcoholic when dissolved with water?

[Ghandi]

Well I just talked to my dad about this, who is a chemist. I was wrong about the concentration thing, you can concentrate it but only to a degree. As far as eating the powder, it is most likely something such as a sugar molecule attached to an ethanol. As ethanol is liquid at room temperature, breaking the sugar molecule from the ethanol releases the ethanol, and the way to do that is by dissolving the sugar molecule with the water. Eating the powder might work just because of natural body processes, though. There is more to it than that, but he used a lot of complicated terminology that would be foreign to us all and which I can't recall.