So, after finding out that the half-and-half I had just purchased two hours earlier, was sour, I went down to a local convenience store to get another pack. Just like the Red Bull, Budweiser's new B-to-the-E (BE) was standing on a little rack attached to the inside glass of one of the coolers. I had heard a lot about it, even my quote on thefacebook is about it, so I had to give it a shot.

It's beer + caffeine + ginseng and guarana extract. The hops have a blackberry, raspberry, and cherry aroma. Basically it's beer combined with an energy drink. Or you might look it as a chick drink like Smirnoff Ice, which it most-likely will become. There's a catch though: It has 6.6% alc/vol. You'd never know though, as it tastes like lemonade.

So, let's say we're Mr. and Mrs. Stereotype here and the man drinks a regular beer (about 4.5 to 5.0%) and his woman drinks this B-to-the-E stuff. Not only will she most likely get drunk quicker as a result of the whole body mass, and in some cases, tolerance issue, she's consuming around 50% more alcohol then he is.

Bud does "compromise", as the B-to-the-E cans contains 10 fl. oz. instead of the usual 12. So, drinking a 12 oz. ice-style beer (ala Atlanta Reunion), with 5.9% is roughly the same as drinking a 10 oz. B-to-the-E. (Actually, the ice-style is still 1.42 oz. short)

Then there's the whole issue of taste. A seven year-old would drink this!

Health: Remember Austrian Red Bull cans used to say "do not mix with alcohol?" They don't say it anymore, but mixing uppers with downers is always dangerous.

So congratulations Anheuser-Busch, you've created the perfect date-rape drug!

And you better all know the above statement was sarcastic!

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"New Rule: Let beer be beer. Christ, yes. First there was ice beer. Then 'dry' beer. Then low-carb beer. Now there's a new one: B-to-the-E. Oh, please. A beer with caffeine and blackberry. The blackberry is to appeal to high school girls. And the caffeine is to keep them awake long enough for R. Kelly to nail them."
-Bill Maher

Tasty yet intoxicating...sounds like my kinda drink!:D
why is it that every "female" drink has a lot of alcohol that you can't even taste, and then the typical "guys" drink has a less % of alcohol that you can only taste.  I think it's becuase the drinks were made to do exactly what Mr. Maher said above. Get the women drunk faster than the guys and see what happens next!
...where are these sold again!?! :laugh:
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...where are these sold again!?! :laugh:

They're rolling out everywhere as we speak.
you know...i really don't have friends that are girls in new york, and that is probably the reason why i haven't had a "female" drink (to quote my sidekick) in a thousand years. i tried to drink a mike's hard lemonade at my friend's apartment the other day and couldn't finish it- it was too sweet! blechhh...

anyhow, the reason that girl's drinks are more alcoholic is so that their dates/the guys with them don't go broke trying to get them drunk. i mean...helping to get them drunk. i mean...aw hell, it all adds up to the same thing, right? ;)

Hahaha that's such a sweet and innocent answer.  I'd have to disagree, seeing as I've had the experience of having somethign slipped into my drink before at a party.  Luckily my friend was there to take me home and hold my hair back until 5am.  Talk about a true friend.
50 posts!  You can call me Goldmember now.
Well... all I can say to this: Missouri second to worst DUI state in the country. Getting totally trashed kinda loses its fun when know that you have to drive home afterwerds, and avoid all the other drunk drivers.

I can't wait to get back to Vienna, where the u-bahn can take my sorry drunk ass home.
hmph, glad i wasn't there, perky, i would have taken a staple gun to his gonads... :angry:

anyhow, think of me when you're riding the u-bahn drunkassedly home, thorsty...i'll be in northern VA... :(

Yeah, thats very true.  Kinda loses it's fun when one member of your party has to remain sober, so they can drive everyone home.
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I can't wait to get back to Vienna, where the u-bahn can take my sorry drunk ass home.

Less than five minutes to over 10 bars here! And the autopilot will always find home! :cool:
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Yeah, thats very true.  Kinda loses it's fun when one member of your party has to remain sober, so they can drive everyone home.

Kind of like me 99% of the time I went out in Vienna!

"How the hell did you put 180 kilometers on the car in one night!?" -My Dad
hahahaha thanks Gift, such a good friend!  If I knew which guy drugged me, I'd do worse than staple his gonads, when I got through with him, he'd have no gonads left!
Talk about sweet revenge. :D

I also know for a fact that you can never trust any pre-made mixed drinks at parties. The "jungle juice" that my friends' frat here serve contains contains three handles (1.75L each) of vodka, three handles of rum. That in one of those 20L serving machines that keep spraying it upwards, thereby keeping it mixed. So if you drink one cup of that, you're drinking half a cup of pure liquor!

In fact, at a party I was at last year at another frat, their vodka-cranberries consisted of 90% vodka and yet, it was hardly noticeable.  :drunk:
damn, I've gotta join one of your parties and get  :drinking:
Yeah it was JUNGLE JUICE!  But I only had one cup, and so did friend, and I have a higher tolerance.  Either they really spiked my drink hard, or the bastards slipped something in.  In any case, I have never been so sick in my life, nor have I ever blacked out 5 minutes after a drink. :(

Damn, you black out!?! that's just insane. There's no way that alcohol did that after 1 cup. Besides, if it was that strong, I'm sure you would've noticed it.
there's only one time that I couldn't remember what i did the night before as a result from alcohol. And it just so happened that I woke up with a very minor burn covering the palm of my hand.   :hurt:   man that was a lot of fun  :laughlong:
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