Hey, you're listening to Barrel to Bottle, The Binny's Podcast. And we are back in your feed with some earth-shattering industry insights. Yeah, canned vodka sodas. Oh, man. Stick around for this one. I'm Greg, I do communications at Binny's. Hey, I'm Pat. I stock the plastic cups at Binny's. I'm Jeff. I buy a lot of these RTDs for Binny's. Oh, that's why he's here. Look at Jeff on, twice a year? Twice a year this year. I'm Lexi. I'm on Instagram. And I'm Roger. I work in beer. And he's on Grindr. Roger, you also work in seltzer. Are you feeling threatened by this category? No. Are these all vodka sodas? No. I kind of grabbed a cart full of the RTDs that I thought were some of the better tasting options from what Jeff and I tasted through, what, back in March? Did we do that? February? Earlier, yeah. So every year these guys get together all of the canned cocktails that are pitched, you know, like on December 22nd. Yeah. And there's like piles and piles. There were hundreds of canned cocktails this year. Yeah, no, there's literally like a six foot tall pile outside of Jeff's office. And every year I'm like, we need to record this tasting for a podcast. And every year they go, we're gonna trash talk the vast majority of this stuff. Yeah. So no, don't do that. The reason we do it this way was kind of Jeff's brainchild maybe three, four years ago or something was we were just getting absolutely overwhelmed with new canned cocktails at all times, all times of the year. And we finally just told people like, listen, if you want to, summer is the time for these things anyway. If you want to be considered for this, like get them to us by February, we'll taste them all and we'll pick some winners. So these are the winners. Yeah, for every one on the shelf, there's 10 or more at least that we reject. Minimum 10, probably 20 that we rejected, yeah. Not worth drinking. Yeah. Probably, probably. Probably not worth drinking. So these are just, I think, some of the standouts for us this year. We've got a few different styles, few different brands. It's not just all vodka soda. I just like to make fun of vodka soda. Even though this is only the winners, there is a gigantic load of canned cocktails here. Folks, we are giving our most glancing first impressions because we got to power through this. Yeah, I mean, and we're barely scratching the surface too. True. But we're going to highlight some of the brands, I think, that Jeff and I thought were more impressive than the others at least. These are all made with spirits then, right? Yes. Like not any. Yeah, these are all spirit based. The beer world is full of these things. I believe. Masquerading as sugar brews or malt brews. Well, I was going to say like this RTD category is kind of, it's all things right now. There's wine based, spirit based, malt based, kombucha based, any type of thing. Yeah, we definitely have hard kombucha margaritas now. No, no, it's not all right. I thought that you could have a margarita and have a nice poop. One of the major kombucha producers that Roger was battling with, originally they insisted that their stuff remained cold because it's authentic kombucha that will re-ferment. And then one day they let us know that it's shelf stable. Oh. So. Yeah, they weren't kidding me. Kind of a gimmick. It's kind of the Kombucha Wars is the ones that have stuck to their guns and said, if half of the reason of this is the live culture, and then there's a lot of legitimate science and like hair quoting here. Shelf stable cheese. Yeah. Like I believe that it's shelf stable, mm. You don't necessarily want it. Kombucha Wars, eh? I don't under, yeah, well. That's the first time I've heard that as well. Via them, you know, it's like, Kombucha producers keep acting like it's gonna be the next big thing, and we're like, it's just not here. Maybe in California, but not in Chicago. Now it's finally the summer of rum. Anything can happen. All right, can we power edit this so we just slam through this thing? You guys, quit messing around. Here we go. First one. We're gonna start with these John Daly Good Boy cocktails. Is that what we're calling them now? Oh, this is uncarbonated. Tea lemonade. The industry term for that, Greg, is still. Is it still? Still. Now, we've got a variety of non-carbonated ones, and every year, Jeff and I taste some, and we're both just like, oh, these are gross. And then we get asked from a lot, and we bring them in, and thousands of people buy them. They sell surprisingly well. Yeah, so listeners, if you're one of the people that drinks a canned vodka water, let us know why, and what else you're doing with it. Because I genuinely clear. Because they get so gassy when they just pound a 12-pack of vodka sodas. Really, really bloats you up. Tastes great, less filling. You can put some more vodka in there. Yeah, so this first one is the Good Boy Peach. It's a peach tea and lemonade. Now, the hard tea is a huge category right now. I know Roger really led the charge there with twisted tea. Summer tea, they're serving hard tea in bars now, just in a big old shaker pint. No ice, no foam. Just- Why no ice? Yeah. You would want to pour this over ice. A pint of hard tea. I think this is absolutely delightful. I really want to hate that. I really want him to hate that. Peach bitters, boy. Yeah, we should have started with the first one here, the actual John Daly cocktail, but- Oh, well. Way to open the wrong one first. Okay. All right, so my question on all these, like the things that we always taste through that are sugar brew and malt brew is, what's the sweetener? Because that's all over the place with these. A lot of times it's stevia. Stevia, a lot of times, yeah. Which is crazy sweet. This tastes like a suicide of the flavored teas at the gas station that had the raspberry and the peach. And the lemonade tea. Let's do the lemonade or the John Daly cocktail. This is good, right? It's not sugar though. No, it's not sugar. Oh, they don't say, come on. They should. They don't have to. What is a John Daly cocktail? A John Daly cocktail is a hard Arnold Palmer. Oh, easy enough. This pours a slightly dehydrated. Important note here, these are variety packs. We got a variety eight pack and that is regular price $18.99 and a Binny's near you as we record this on sale for $15.99. What size pack? Eight pack. These are awesome. I prefer the V. Tastes like Snapple. It does taste like Snapple, which is awesome. We can see people enjoying this. What's the percent alcohol? Five? Four and a half. If this was a Snapple. Oh, John, come on now. If this was a Snapple, what would it say under the cap? Oh, life comes in waves. Yeah, that's probably. There's a lot of lemon and not that much tea. What's the slogan on these? Grip it and rip it? Grip it and rip it. Responsibly. Yep. Doesn't it benefit dogs, too? It does. It's important. Oh, he said pup. I thought he said every poor. Helps a pup. Helps a putt. I'm like, well, okay, yeah, we know you're a golfer. You got any other things? But apparently he does. He also likes dogs. Well, that's sweet. Just like this Arnold Palmer with booze in it. All right, next. What's the next flavor? Next. Yeah, keep it rolling. Let's do raspberry. Raspberry. Not bad this tastes like that gas station raspberry tea. You know what I'm talking about. When you're driving across Iowa and you stop at the Cum and Go. I stop at the world's largest truck stop. Yeah, there's only one of those though. And if Brett's with you, he buys weird food items there. How can this have zero carbohydrates? Well, it's made with. Because it's not made with real sugar. Yeah, it's not made with sugar and it's made with a dry distilled spirit. Well, I mean, there's no carbs in vodka. No? Alcohol is carbs. It turns to carbs in your body as it passes through, right? It turns to sugar. We're gonna get into stupid mountain chemistry lessons right now. I mean, I'm calling shenanigans on this. How can this be a zero carb beverage? I hate to say it like this, but Roger, you are bow guarding the raspberry iced tea. Hey, spoiler alert, guess what it tastes like? Wow, it's fruity. Nugget hops? No? Raspberry candy. It does taste like an Arizona green tea, or like the little teas. That one's gross. I don't like that one. This tastes like mambas. Remember those? Mambas. Dude, that candy sucked. Yeah, pour it on that one later. Yeah. Disagree. That's the raspberry. Is that all of them? No, there's one more. No, one more. Blackberry. Blackberry. Like all the bramble berries for the Good Boys. They don't make just like a tea. Raspberry and blackberry. No. Bold move, Cotton. See how it works out for him. It's kind of giving Cotton candy. The blackberry? Yeah. Interesting, much more subtle than the raspberry. Less sweet than a lot of them. Yeah. I think this is the best one. It's pretty good. If you told me this was raspberry, I'd believe you. Now, we just need Roger to petition them for a gooseberry. Okay, John Daly, Good Boy. Oh, with the dogs, Good Boy. Overall, drinkable, easy to drink, not too sweet, a little bit sweet. I mean, it's named after him. It's perfect. Sometimes these things just make sense. Yep. The only thing I'm disappointed about, given his amazing reputation, do some YouTubing. The guy is no new, you know, be both an amazing athlete and a big drinker. I think they went for the 4.5 alcohol so they could keep stay under 100 calories. Probably. I've noticed that's a big trend with like seltzers and other malt and sugar based. Well, a lot of these things, I mean, when you're in a category like here's our artificial black cherry seltzer, vodka seltzer, like what's the differentiating point there? At some point, they're all going to taste pretty much the same. People are going to be looking at calorie counts on those. We have enough listeners on this show. I bet some of them are into this stuff and other things too. That's doing very well. Everybody drinks this stuff now. One thing first too, there is a Good Boy Vodka if you want to spice it up a little bit too, which I'm sure is in this plan. Staying on tea though, this next brand was one of the more impressive things we tasted at the giant 100 Canapaluza earlier this year. The customer request and customer response has been really strong. It's a huge brand nationally. It's only a couple of years old, I think, and it's just growing like crazy. It's in all these industry newsletters and stuff we all get. And that's Surfside. Surfside? You want to start with a plain tea? Yeah, regular hard tea. Hardy 24, summer hard tea. Hard sweet tea. Roger, it's the summer of rum. I don't know if you've got our memo for the 10th year. Get ready for American Brandy Fall. That happened so many times earlier. The fall of American Brandy. Surfside, iced tea plus vodka. I'm getting a mint. Mint? Yeah. That means it's actually herbal. It's slip in iced tea powder, baby. Right? Yeah. Yeah. There's very little tea in this tea. I think these need the half and half treatment personally. It's a lot less sweet than a lot of these, which I mean- But it is dry. If you have more than a few of these, you start to, that sweetness gets cloying, at least to me. Yeah. I agree. It gives me a headache. It's like, you might as well be drinking Bud Light at that point. It gets me all jumpy. What? Makes me get nervous and cry. That delivers what it promises, right there, iced tea. Here's the half and half. I like the branding. It's cute. Also non-carbonated. It's silly. Sorry, yeah, still. You silly or bubby? Roger hangs with a different crowd. Iced tea and lemonade, half and half. Much better. This definitely smells like a lemonade that comes in a 20-ounce plastic bottle. That's pretty good. Again, I appreciate that they're not sweet. I love how dry these are. Like, it's barely sweet at all. And there's actually a bit of like, tea tannin on the finish. There's actual tannin in this, which is kind of weird. I love it. That's really good. It's really good. I could drink a lot of that and not get grumpy about being, you know, sugared up artificially sugared up. I like getting sugared up. That's big sugar doing their thing. Proudly made with stateside vodka. Artificial sweetener. Here we go. I like the way the other one tastes that I assume they're all made with artificial sweetener. They are also all four point five percent. This one is the thing. Peach tea plus vodka. Surfside peach tea plus vodka. I'm digging this peach. Oh, it smells like body odor. Oh, yeah, it does. It's so sweaty. It does smell sweaty. It's got a more natural peach character than the John Daly one. Yeah. It actually tastes like peach. It's a little more cardboardy than sweaty. Yeah, I don't really get the body odor. Little weird guy. I'm not picking up what you're putting down here. Greg gets pitted going from his office to the bathroom. That's true. He's got more experience. I break a sweat tying my shoes. Same, bud. Same. This last one is not a tea. This is vodka lemonade. It's not the tea. The first one without any tea, so it's just lemonade. Only three carbs. So if they're using artificial sweetener, that kind of proves my statement of there's carbs in alcohol. Yeah. You can't lie in a can. It depends on the kind of alcohol. Are you sure that John Daly didn't say zero carbs added or zero added carbs? It just says zero G. Raj, does this smell like that lemon ice thing that you talk about? Yeah. Lemon. Lemon Chil here. Lemon Chil. Lemon Chil. What was that? A brand of Italian ice that's kind of finely textured. So it's almost like a sherbert. You've never had one like at a Sox game growing up? Probably. Got your own lemon Chil. Weren't you here when we tried the 312 Shandy that was selling itself as the lemon ice? Yeah. Maybe. You're really revoking your South Cider card. I mean, I've had plenty of Italian ice. I don't know if I've had specifically lemon Chil. When I go to a ball game, I'm there to pound glizzies and beers, Robert. I don't even... Do you like the vegan ice cream? And milkshakes, apparently. That's the thing that's keeping the White Sox alive. So that one's the sweetest one out of these. It's not that sweet. But it's balanced against probably a sour of the lemon or something. I am very particular about lemonade and I do not love it. It has a little bit of a salinic prefab. A little bit of a lemonade snob, yeah. I am not a snob about lemonade and this is fine. I'm astonished at how dry these are for using an artificial sweetener. I mean, usually that's the problem with those is that they're so much sweeter than sugar that you can, even if you barely use any, it tastes real sweet. They are done with an artistic hand, Roger. I feel like yes. It's not like they're putting a sugar cube of artificial sweetener into every can. I mean, they're putting it into the back of that truck that drives milk around. Well, yeah, but that's like the point with Stevia is that you can put like a grain in a glass and it's sweet as... It's the fentanyl of sweeteners. You heard it here first, folks. Stevia, the fentanyl of sweeteners. Hey, what's the price on those? Surfside's like $16.99? Surfside's are regular price, $19.99. We've got a tea variety pack and a lemon variety pack. They are on sale right now for $16.99. Was that the tea variety pack? That was the tea variety pack, yes. Even though it had a lemonade? I'm not going to second guess it. You're just second guessing it, but we'll move on. We are selling a lot of these things. Okay, that was Surfside? That was Surfside. This is Vosa next here. Now, going from... Vosa. Would you say that that's going after High Noon crowd, right? Everybody is. Yeah, I mean, High Noon is the best selling alcohol in America now. Really? Well, this year, it's going from a case volume point, it's probably going to pass Tito's. Shame on you, America. There's nothing wrong with High Noon. And I'm late to the party. I know. Yeah, fair. It's an alcohol delivery system. That's what the people want, man. First up, we're trying the Lemon Vodka Water. Absolutely groundbreaking. Man, another still one? Come on. We're doing the stills first. Settle down. Wow, just look at that water. The pretense of tea is gone and this is just vodka water. Vodka water. Which people do drink at bars and order. I mean, it is a thing. That sounds like something you drink at home, not something you order at a bar, but I guess they do, don't they? Yeah, if you don't want bubbles or sugar. Flavor. This is one of the ones where Jeff and I try them, we're like, man, these are not for us. But we've got an audience for them and a lot of people are picking these up at a Binny's. Vosa Lemon vodka water. People who don't want to expel gas around the person that they want to impress. I don't get this. What's the point of flat water? My mom loves these. She can't stop drinking them. She can't stop talking about them every time I see her. And she says it's because, yeah, she loves those. She says it's because she feels too bloated after, you know. This started with a brand called Mom Water, for us at least. And that was another one where when Jeff and I tried it, we were like, oh, and then, but it was a good brand. And people were requesting we brought it in. And it really kind of surprised us both. Yeah, it does very well. At first, when you taste it, it just kind of seems a little blob. But I've had a couple of these and they start to kind of just go down easy. They taste fine. You know, it's just you and the other moms hanging out at the park. There's dead water, too. Finally, the seltzer option that moms can shotgun with their friends. Have you been to Little League Games? I mean, that's happening. Oh, yeah. Yeah, again, I'm not the target audience, but this is fine. I think the flavor is sometimes a little, you know, gross and artificial. It's just there. Put a little bit of lemon juice in the water as I'm waiting for the fridge to slowly fill the glass so that there's some kind of flavor, something to experience. And that's what this tastes like. Thank you for taking us into your life there, Greg. Yeah, just bringing you in. It's the only excitement he has left. It takes like a minute and a half for that slow little stream of water to fill up that whole glass and just wait there with the lemon juice. Dude, I got a slow fridge too. It's terrible. It's terrible. Terrible. Well, I'll say this much. For people that want to catch a buzz and not taste any alcohol, this tastes like water. You don't taste. It tastes like lemon water. Any vodka at all. It probably helps with a hangover too without the sugar. Let's not give medical advice here. Now, this one's a little stronger though too, right? Aren't these 5%? 5%, OK. This is starting to sound like a commercial for these guys. What other fruits do we have from VOSA? Strawberry lemon water. Oh. Strawberry is a hard flavor to do. Artificial strawberry tends to taste pretty nasty. This is like hotel water. That's literally... When they put out the... Mom water was based off of that. And that's what I thought when I tasted it at first. This tastes like the infused water at hotels. Yeah. And they were at a hotel and had drank too many tiki cocktails, basically. I'm going to butcher their story here, so hopefully they're not listening. So they just took that water and asked for a couple little vodka in there. These are some of the most stunningly flavorless things we sell, I think. I like the lemon better than that. I like the lemon better than the strawberry, too. The strawberry is fine. It just tastes like you only put one quarter of one strawberry in a whole pint of water. And the lemon is cut back, too. Or maybe it's not. It's just a little bit of strawberry. Oh, they're mixing up with a multi-flavor now? Well, that was strawberry lemon. What's this? I like the strawberry lemon. Oh, they're all lemon. Yeah. This next one is flat sprite. Yeah, flat sprite. It says that this is natural flavors and water, but then on the side it says natural fruit juice. Fruit juice. What is it, Moza? Can natural flavors come from natural juice? I bet you that's like one is a legal definition and the other one is an advertising definition. Least favorite. Ooh, fighting words. Such a natural pairing, it seemed like it would go together well. This tastes like if you fill a glass with ice, then added perhaps some Canfield 5050. Yeah. Drink said beverage, let the ice melt, and then drink the melted ice afterwards. It tastes like Sprite ice water. In defense of the lemon-lime, it's fine. Yeah, no, it's fine. It's fine. They're kind of the rounder than I want. I want a little more sharpness from acidity from the lemon, but what are you going to get? I agree, but also keep it easy for people to drink. Enamel. All right. All right, one more. Peach. One more fruit. One more fruit. Peach lemon. We have a celebrity appearance with this brand too, right? It is a celebrity's brand. It's Kate Upton, right? Kate Upton. Michigan native. Really? It's where it's made on the back, allegedly. Hudsonville. They got good ice cream there. Wait, is that on the lake? It's the Midwest. I know what you're talking about. We got good ice cream everywhere. Get out of here with your small town ice cream. It's pretty good. It's not so much small town. You can get it at Jewel. This one smells kind of funky too. This one is rough. This is like straight up. It kind of smells like cheese. Peach. I don't know. I'm getting... But as fake as you can get peach. You topped your vodka water with a splash of Four Loko. That's what I'm getting. Just a little. But like just a... A tasteful quantity of Four Loko. That's the thing about all these waters. The flavor is all very subtle. So if you want big flavor, you need to... If you want big flavor, you're not the customer for a vodka water to begin with. I'm going to agree to disagree with anyone who likes the peach. Yeah, it's only okay. Okay, so now we're shifting into bubbly. Yeah, now we have VOSA, which is called Highline Vodka Cocktail. And this is the carb stuff. And these are single flavors with carb. Raj, there is a passion fruit and a mango. And these are the ones that passed muster in our... Yeah, so of all the various carbonated vodka sodas we tried this year, these we felt were some of the better ones. And then the waters... And the waters just kind of came with it. And they're selling, so we're here for it. They're not terrible. The lemon... Again, we're not the audience. Every week we record this podcast looking for bold and adventurous flavor. And we're not the audience, but far more people are not. Bold and adventurous is exactly what I think. Which bold and adventurous? Which of these do you think Verlander goes for? Bubbly Hubby? These ones are also 7%. Danger Zone. He's definitely going for these ones. So the first one we have is Vosa Lime, Sparkling Lime. Hey, it smells pretty good. Whoa, very sweet. And a lime that's more like a margarita mix than it is a lime. Interesting. Also going from the waters to this is like you're hitting the gas and the brakes for me. You could put some tequila in there. Uh-huh. We have any tequila? That's a Speedball. That's a Fastball with one of those little plastic limes right across the plate. Why don't you take it from 7 to about 15? Natural Fruit Juice, Roger. Premium Vodka Natural Fruit Juice Zero Preservatives. I call shenanigans. Vodka with Natural Flavors and Sparkling Water. You're like a RTD matchmaker here. You're going to go to all these places and just... Your house is going to get raided by Big RTD after this podcast. There's got to have artificial sweetener in it or Stevie or something. It's not sugar. It can't be. You wouldn't even use sugar on something like this. I'm sure you would. A little bit for mouthfeel and balance? I would. You think they're worried about the mouthfeel and balance? I think these say lightly carbonated. I do like the carbonation level. That's nice. That's my problem with a lot of seltzers. Sometimes they're like, I don't know, they're just like... High as you can get. Burning the top of my mouth when I'm drinking them. Remember that video on Reddit of that kid who slams the seltzer and then he starts to panic and throw up and then he turns around and smacks his head against the garage door? It just gets worse and worse. It's one of my favorite things. One of the all time. Sometimes if I'm laying awake worrying about things and I can't sleep, I just think about that kid. He couldn't sleep after that either. He's a Supreme Court justice now, by the way. Okay, passion fruit, passion fruit. Roger, really taking a long time investigating. You don't just give Roger a Lilikoi can and not expect him to just completely freeze up and stare at it. Literally perusing every one of these cans. I'm trying to figure out. Lilikoi? Lilikoi, that's what they're called in Hawaii. Oh, the passion fruit. Oh, well. They nailed the color. It's the same color as chanola. Chanola, it's the same color as chanola. The leader of the passion fruit category. It's a category. It's got a little bit of acidity. It has a mango nose. Famously tart fruit. I had some passion fruit Chobani before I left and drove up here today. Very good. This would have gone great with it. I remember this time when Pat came back from Hawaii and he was like, yo, you got to try fresh passion fruit. Yeah, the passion fruit we got here totally sucks in comparison. This is really good. I'll make sure to try that. Roger, say how good this is. This definitely blows the lime out of the water. Yeah, it's really good. I bet this is good. It is a 50-50 blend with the lime. This is one of the flavors that really sold us when we were tasting through it, too. You're going to put tequila in this one, too, Greg? Are you going to go? Tequila would be awesome in this one. There's plenty of rumba. Mix it with the lime. Just doing like an old-fashioned suicide at the soda machine. That's pretty good. This passion fruit is where it's at. Yeah, this passion fruit is really good. Well, sorry, watermelon. Tough act to follow. Seems like watermelon should have come way earlier in this lineup. What's the other one? Lemon? Mango. That's right. We got a bookend watermelon with flavors we actually want. I like the can design on these. It's clean. It's fresh. The font work is good. A lot of serifs. It's a little more rhyme than Gabe in terms of design styles. Good God. People give the listeners what they want. Oh, they love these references. It's just a mix of melon rind and Jolly Rancher. I am getting Jolly Rancher to a T. Oh, yeah. Watermelon is one of the worst fruits. It stinks. You can't eat it without getting all messy unless you cut it up in the little cubes and then you're making a mess. Good watermelon is the bomb. I don't know what you're talking about. I think you're thinking of strawberries. Have you ever had watermelon with tahini on it? Spice it up, baby. I have not, but I have a very active imagination and I can picture that. If you have to say that this fruit is good, if you put salt on it. That's called a bigger lie on this podcast ever than him having a very active imagination. What's this flavor? Mango. Mango? Clear. Yeah, unlike the passion fruit, mango is perfectly clear. I'm tough on mango, usually. And this is no exception. Cannot have the mango. I had the fiery mango Doritos last week when I got them at a gas station in Kentucky. They were like over the top mango flavor and then like five, seven seconds later, like a respectable spice kind of comes in. They were interesting, but I couldn't eat a whole bag. How long before Doritos squares up against Takis and makes something that turns your skin blue? I feel like they're close. That's what we're talking about instead of this mango sparkling beverage. So this is what always gets me about the popularity of variety packs is that there's always a dud. This is the turd that's going to stay in the fridge all summer. This is what gets left at the party, like the garage of misfit RTDs. Like, hey, why'd you buy some more variety packs of VOSA Sparkling? Because we have 18 cans in the fridge, but they're all mango. Go buy some more brown, pink and white ice cream. You know, I didn't... I assumed the watermelon was going to be my least favorite, but it's the mango. But the passion fruit is so good, it makes up for it. The passion fruit is really good, and it's opaque and it's yellow. It's the color that you would expect. It tastes very natural. The lime is pretty good, too. It's a little bit sweet, but it's all right. It's weird that the mango is clear. It's weird that the mango is clear. Forgetting the passion fruit is so right, like, it's like a... It's a Cristalino. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Cristalino. They activated charcoal, filtered out the color. Make a passion fruit only pack. They could have done a good one and then a not good one, but they took two of the bad ones and put them in the good one and two of the good ones and put them in the bad ones. So they can sell more. So they can sell more. That's a funny variety pack. They broke a dog in every bunch. Recipe by putting dogs in both bunches. Variety packs are weird. Retailers like them. They take up less space on the shelf. I don't have to carry eight different four packs. Yeah, I get it. And customers on some of the White Claw and the High Noons, a lot of those just taste the same. So as your flavors get bolder, having an eight pack just becomes more... You're not going to do an eight pack with margarita and gin cocktails. Some people like some things, some like others, but... Counterpoint. Roger, somebody at the factory was like, why is the mango clear? This isn't very good. And somebody else was like, shut up. We got to have a dog. All right. This next one has been arguably my favorite the last couple of years since the first time we tried it. This brand is minus 196. Oh, it's a minus. This is made by Suntory. And the minus 196 is the temperature of liquid nitrogen. And the way they make these, they are taking whole fruit, putting it in liquid nitrogen, and freezing it, and then just grinding it into a powder and infusing it with vodka and then cutting it down with water and carbonating it. OK. When you say they, Suntory. Suntory themselves. Yes. One of the biggest beverage manufacturers in the world. OK. Was this like a huge hit in Japan before New Zealand? It was huge in Japan. It's really big in Australia. All over that side of the Pacific. They came out last year with just the lemon. We tried it and loved it. Now they've brought a couple other flavors back in this year. All right. I'm in. I'm on board. Have you ever played with liquid nitrogen? Yeah. We put a balloon in it in science class in high school once. It's fun. I worked at a bar that used to use liquid nitrogen to muddle fruit. So you'd pour it in there and you'd get this like big dramatic thing. And then you feel less bad about buying an $18 cocktail. It's part of the show. This is good. Isn't this good? I mean, and that's what it is. It's literally whole fruit just frozen into a powder and then macerated in vodka. This is good. It's really good. Why is it sweet though? Is it artificial sweetener? No, I think this is sugar. It's like a very bright citric lemon. It says only 2.5 grams of sugar. I think it's artificial sweetener. Is it sugar? It says sugar. Maybe it's a combo. It's kind of a weird funky like artificial aftertaste. Minus 196 is a variety 8-pack that we're really kind of stocking largely now, 18.99 regular on sale right now for 16.99. So it comes with four of these lemons, which he's just tried, and then two peach and two orange. Is that it? Grapefruit. Two grapefruit. That's weird. I'm all about the grapefruit. The four, two and two is a weird blend. Yeah, it's a weird variety pack. At 6%, by the way. Not bad. Oh, they couldn't resist, made with vodka and natural flavors. But still favor blasted it. That would be an interesting question if they would divulge us in for much information. Because if the only flavor is the crushed whole frozen fruit, that's a bummer that they have to call that natural flavor. That's what it is, though. Only two grams of sugars in here, supposedly. I also like that it's a regular can, not that wimpy slim can. I love the slim can. Yeah, but how many koozies do you have for slim cans? Because I have four. A ton, yeah. We've got a koozie drawer. Except they don't have people's weddings on them. This peach is awesome. What do you think of this, Raj? It's the best of the peach things we've tried so far. You know, when somebody's voice goes up, that's how you know, by the way. Well. Raj, I disagree. I like the John Daly peach more. I think it's because it has tea, too. These are pretty sweet. Did we determine whether or not is there like stevia in them or something? I think. It doesn't say artificial. I think it ends too sweet. Right at the last second, you know, it just kind of lingers with that stevia flavor. It's about to finish. Yeah. Absolutely. We'll see if grapefruit finishes pithy. Well, they've adopted an interesting strategy here. They know that the lemon is the best. So you get four of those and then two of these. Yeah. And there's a whole bunch more flavors available in Asia and Australia. And this is just what they've chose to send to the States so far. That would be good. Is that jackfruit? Probably. There's Gros Michel and Cavendish. I would like to try a banana flavor one of these. Get that peach trash out of this and just make it a half and half. We haven't had this happen in years. But you guys are spoiling on tape the reaction for the rest of us. Oh, sorry. Oh, this is really good though. It's really good. I'll wait for everyone from now. This is the first time I've revisited this since we tried them back in February. This is really good. This is better than squirt and it's not nearly as sweet as the fever tree that I drank too much of. Put a little mezcal in this. You got yourself a night. I like it better than the lemon. Yeah. Yeah, this is good. I like grapefruit more than lemon just in general. Always a dog. That peach is just going right in that garage refrigerator. Right in the broccoli drawer. To sit there with both some mangoes for the next year and a half. And one Corona light. Yeah, I finally gave up on some of those in my garage fridge, I don't know, maybe like three months ago. What? And I just opened them up and I just poured them into the bushes in front of the house. Fighting the raccoons who are eating your bushes and all the stuff you do in it. The raccoons come out the bushes and they're like, this guy. He's wrestling a raccoon in the bushes. No, they could be really polite and well-mannered, like that Canadian guy that was feeding raccoons hot dogs. You ever see him on YouTube? This line of raccoons just waits for Brophy to hand him a beer. All right, you guys freaked out because we didn't have Carb-less, but Carb-less is what? One of the top sellers? Carb-less is becoming one of the top sellers. So it's a vodka soda, arguably a threat to high noon's dominance. I've never heard of this until three weeks ago. Yeah, and it's huge. I want to know how we're making these zero-carb... This is stevia. Zero-carb beverages with alcohol in them. Again, carbs get digested out during the alcohol production, and maybe the fundamental building blocks of it are still there, but it gets converted into other stuff. Oh, biochemists. I have no idea what I'm talking about. But in 2003, when Atkins Diet was a fad, then Bacardi started advertising zero-carbs and Bacardi Silver. And I was like, how the hell is that possible? Oh, wow, this is sweet. So this is the carbless margarita. Oh, no wonder it's selling like crazy in the Midwest. It's just big artificial sugar bombs. It is really sweet. I don't like this. I don't understand why. I don't like drinking this like crazy. I don't get it. It's no minus 196 grapefruit, of course. Yeah, agreed. It just tastes like a sugar bomb. But it's not as sweet. Okay, hear me out. No carbs in vodka. Coming from Iowa and understanding why. If you only had like El Salvador margarita mix margaritas, you know, or Chi-Chi's, then this is going to seem dry and light by comparison. It's a bit heavy for me. It tastes like cleaning. That looks pretty natural, though, this passion fruit. Oh, that's natural. Yowza. That is neon. I'm waiting. But it's, oh, this is like Mountain Dew without any green. Oh, so sweet. No, thank you. No, sir. It is sweeter than I'm looking for, but I'm not. I don't think they're bad. Sweeter than you're looking for. I don't think it's good. I don't think it's good. Not even in the same ballpark as the Kate Upton one. I'm just trying to be nice. Yeah, this is fucking rough. We could cut the two carbless cans and pretend like we never tasted this, because that was terrible. It's our number two selling one. It's crazy how much carbless we sell. They're coming at high noon, and high noon is number one in the country. It's high noon like this? I can't imagine. Barrel, we're selling so much of this, we put the variety packs next to Tito's in the vodka set this year. I feel like we need to like- Talk to the people in the Midwest about their diabetes. Yeah, well first of all, they need to be punched, and second of all, I feel like we need to try like a high noon to balance this out, because I'm very confused as to how these are. Yeah, like what does this relate to? We're juxtaposing it against other similar things. Buddy, it is not even sold in the city. Why isn't it sold in- It's not even distributed there yet. They don't make enough to sell it in the city yet, so like once they finally make enough of it, it'll go crazy. They're draining the Caribbean dry of sugar. It's stevia. If you had to guess what their slogan is- F**k you, drink it. You'd think maybe it would be something to do with carbs. Oh wait, carb-less. I've been thinking that they're just really into teatops. It's zero carbs and it's bliss. It's carb-less. Carb-less. Their slogan is, Liss is more. What's next? You can't hate on a slogan like that. It's somewhat brilliant, I think, to get people thinking, all right, this is carb-less. There's no carbs in it. It's one of those things that you always talk about, like, well, that's not for me, but if that's what you like. Okay, next up, the Sleeve Tattooed Hard Men, Big Time Bearded Heavy Metal Bros at Three Floor. Have not won but two lines of vodka soda. So we are trying, this is just a single flavor. I just grabbed one just as representative. So they make a vodka soda and a vodka splash. The vodka splash is slightly stronger, got a little juice in it. That's what I grabbed. And I grabbed what I thought would be the more interesting flavor. Thank you. Nice can art. Yeah, I mean, the can art is Three Floyds. It's also a whopping 7%. Yeah, 9%. The vodka splash, huh? Okay, I take back any sarcasm in my voice. Hard men of Three Floyds, I love you. They have different strengths on these, right? So like this one's nine, but they make one that's five. The splashes are nine, the sodas are five. Speaking of, we're going to get into like actual cocktails at some point here, or is this all? We have like a couple. I feel like I was lied to yet again. Of note, these are only $11.99 a four pack and on sale right now for $10.99 a four pack. Why is it so clear? What flavor is this? Cream soda? Is this splash? It is orange, lemon and pineapple. Beth is pretty weird. What is going on with this? That is not how that tasted when I tasted it a couple months ago. Oh, man. They should have just made it orange, a lemon and a pineapple. And made a variety eight pack. It tastes like, I don't know how many of you have ever worked in a bar, but when you're working in a bar and close at the end of the night, at some point all of the drinks kind of fall into the bin. Yeah. Into the little mat. Did you lose a bet? No, but when you go to clean that out, it just hits you and you smell it. That's what this is. You don't clean it. Somebody has to drink it like the drunk has been there. You make them take a real shot. It's not the 90s anymore. 90s were great. Harassment. This tastes like lemon pine salt. Yeah. It's got a pineapple taste, but there's like a smokiness to it. There's a really weird chemical flavor on the side of the palate. Really hits you right in the cell of your hands. I don't have a lot good to say about it. When I first tasted all four of them, so there's two. Is this safe? There's a coconut lime vodka soda and a orange vodka soda, and then there's a pineapple lemon lime splash and a pineapple mango splash. Roger, kind of like what you guys were talking about. If you had a hurricane and a Mai Tai and you just poured the melted ice water together, that's kind of what this tastes like, but more intense. It is like just fruit mix, fruit melange. Yeah, orange, lemon, and pineapple together. I don't know. These are doing all right, though. They are doing all right, yeah. They've been doing some tastings and stuff, and they're pretty widespread, and we're selling a good chunk of them. Maybe those better flavors. The art on the can, it looks like the bad guy from the Suicide Squad. Even having this in my mouth, I feel delighted, and I want to give it another chance because I love it. Didn't that guy die in the first 30 seconds? I'm talking about the gigantic starfish that's Godzilla-ing around. Oh, okay. Starro, yeah. Starro. We live in the best time in human civilization. I do think that there's definitely a market for this. There definitely is a market for this. There's definitely a market for this. That's true for all of these things. You ice it down, it kind of, maybe it'll round out a little bit. To its credit, I don't think it tastes like 9%. No, definitely not. No. We've had their 9% stout, and it's just like the biggest thing ever. Their 9% IPA. It's a mouthful. Here they're just like, tastes like fruit. So up next is the newest flavor extension from Long Drink, and it's peach. It's here for what, a limited time, Jeff? They'll probably bring it back again if it's done well. Are you talking about the Finnish Long Drink? Yeah. He has a spot on Finnish accent. How did you do that? You just had that in your pocket this whole time? I'm excited to hear what you think of this one, Greg. Oh, so I wasn't a fan of all of the Long Drinks. I thought that the high alcohol one at least had high alcohol. Oh, I didn't like the high alcohol one. I like the Long Drink though. I've never had the Long Drink. So one time when I was in high school, our marching band stopped by the Trolley Gummi Factory outlet and I got like a five pound bag of those peach rings and I left them in my saxophone case for the entire year and we just shared a few gummi peach Yeah. And that's what this tastes like. Funny story. That is a true story. It's pretty lame. I think this is actually drier than some of the other long drinks. I like this. Yeah, I would agree that it's drier than the other long drinks. I think that's the one knock I have for the standard long drink because I think it's a little too sweet for at least just that kind of crushability I'm looking for. It's supposed to taste like squirt. Yeah, but it's sweet. Now you're comparing this to long drink instead of comparing it to peach. The can says long drink. I know it says long drink, but it also says peach. I think this one. And it's corks still a gin cocktail though. I think it ends nicely. It ends like an orange creamsicle little situation. But I think in the middle where the peach is really strong, it's a little much. I like carrot juice. Awesome. I mean, if you like peach gummies, this tastes exactly like peach gummies. It tastes just like peach. And by the way, the bottom half of the peach ring is like the white fluffy part of the gummy. So that's the fluffy cream vanilla part. One time at Bandcamp? This is my Bandcamp story. $11.99 at a Binny's near you. $11.99 for a four pack. Six pack. Six pack. There you go. At least represents a savings. All right. Staying on gin. We're trying probably the biggest gin cocktail launch we've seen, which is very low bar, which is Gin and Juice by Dre and Snoop. Laid back. Gin and Juice Citrus by Dre and Snoop. Hey, this kind of smells like Otto's Jacket. Is this supposed to taste like weed, too? Okay. To its benefit, it is not sweet. To its detriment, it is sour in like a sour patch. It's sour and bitter. It's piney on the nose. I would call that pine. Well, it's a gin forward cocktail. I like it. Yeah, it's good. It's not sweet at all. And after what we've been drinking, it's like a breath of fresh air. Not sweet at all. A breath of gin. These are 5%? These are 5.9%. I like how they put parental advisory. The branding is great on this. Yeah, the branding is great. They each have like a classic like low rider car. It's weird to see Snoop put his name on something too. He's usually pretty reserved about his branding. Within view right here, I can see the From Crook to Cook cookbook. On the first one, it says gin with real juice, citrus, rose and natural flavors. Rose? Rose in the gin and juice? Yeah. Probably because it's not great gin. Gin with real juice, watermelon, hibiscus and natural flavors on the melon. How about that? How is it still colorless with hibiscus in it though? But smell it, dude. It smells like watermelon, rind and hibiscus. It smells great. It smells like your grandma's bathroom. I like it. This is pretty good. It smells like Martha's bathroom. Maybe she's helped out with these. They really just taste like gin and sodas with a little bit of flavor enhancer in them. For what it's worth, when we tasted these, when we were kind of evaluating all these cans for the year, obviously we're going to bring it in. It's a Dre and Snoop brand. The branding is great. The pricing was good. Then they weren't terrible. So we were like, well, of course, we're going to, you know, people are going to be looking for these. But in hindsight, they are nicely tasty and dry. It's a refreshing difference from the others. Just seems off brand for like Dre and Snoop. You know, like 90s rap versus like, you know, soaps that are like starfish shaped in your. It's like a little pretty and delicate. Yeah. There's a car on the can. But when you taste it, you're like, hmm, this tastes like the greenest part of the watermelon. I'm telling you, it's because he's been hanging out with Martha. He's got a cookbook. He can legit cook. Like these are culinary attitude towards making these flavors. Popery. Variety packs on sale for $15.99. That watermelon rind in here comes off as cucumber-y. You could sell this, I think, if people like cucumber, maybe garnish. All right. Some cucumber sandwiches served with this perhaps? The passion fruit doesn't pour yellow. Yellow for these, though. If you are a big fan of florals, these are for you. What's the floral on the can this time? Passion fruit, pineapple, ginger, and natural flavor. I'm all about this. These are more complex than you'd expect. Enough with your disapproving shaking of your heads. Both of you, come on. I like this. I want to like this one more. It's fine. It kind of tastes like old pineapple. It's a little subdued. I thought it would pop more. There's not enough passion fruit flavor. It's more pineapple. It never is. Need more passion fruit. Ginger's pretty muted as well. Clean and it, yeah, it could use more ginger too. Like maybe get a little. The softest spoken ginger we've ever had on this podcast. This might. That's the truth. He's talking about himself. This might be the dud of the bunch. We'll see. We'll see. What's the last? Apricots. Apricots. This car is sick. What are the auxiliary? What's the auxiliary flavor in this? I forgot to look. You have gin with real juice, apricot, honey, bergamot and natural flavors. I'm drinking some Earl Grey tea. Pinkies out. Do a little Earl Grey bergamot adjustment. That's a distinct flavor of the marshmallow parts of Lucky Charms. Why is it marshmallow? I love it. I think it's great. Oh, it's terrible. It does not taste like apricot or gin. It tastes like a little dessert. Tastes like fluff. It does taste like fluff. Yeah. You like this, huh? It tastes more like peach than apricot to me. Like vanilla, like the vanilla part of the marshmallow. Always after me, Lucky Charms. Well, I don't think we can do that voice anymore. That's not cool. No, you can still do that one. Oh, we can? Yeah. You can do finish and you can do that one. Finish and the Lucky Charms. Top of the mornin too, yeah. No, I haven't even put a broke on that. That was nothing. That was just me saying, they're after me, Lucky Charms. That's exactly how I said it. They're after me, Lucky Charms. And for Talk Like a Pirate Day, I'm like, are, and it's driving me nuts. Mr. Brophy, being the one that's always been eating them Lucky Charms, what do you think? Is that Lucky Charm-esque for you? You know, it's not good. Mrs. Brophy came home from Costco yesterday with a, you know, the crumble cookies, the place that makes those giant, stupid cookies. They have a crumble cookie branded essentially cookie crisp cereal. Now in a giant box of Costco with two bags that, you know, she bought because we have children in the house plus me. And I tried it and it's got it's like way too fake and nasty tasting. So now we have this Costco size amount of these fake cookie crisp that are just like teasing me in the morning. And I don't want to eat. And I don't think my kids are even going to eat. I don't know. It's so bad. My kid wouldn't even eat it. We'll see. My kids are picky jerks. Costco is a weird place to take like a blind date on something. That is why I had to quit because I was like 64 ounces artichokes. Could be good. Let's go. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Frozen pizzas in an 18 pack. Yeah. You'll eat that. Those will get eaten. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. That's a weird example. All right. So this next one is from arguably one of our biggest selling RTD brands and nationally one as well. And that's Cutwater. And this is a transfusion. So if you're not familiar with the transfusion, it is what is it? Grape juice and vodka. Essentially, there's something else in it. Usually lime or cranberry, ginger. And it's a golf course cocktails real big in the Midwest. So we've seen the thing that happened before canned cocktails and transfusions. Yeah, I'm unfamiliar. Yeah. But we've seen a huge amount of them this year. I don't know why it's taken a few years in the can cocktail thing to start getting transfusions. But we've we were presented with probably like five or six of them this year. Yeah, I think like Crush and Vodka, like Orange Crush, Grape Crush. That plus decorative soap that kind of has a has a floral potpourri smell. This is probably a little stronger, I'm guessing. Cutwaters usually are. Seven. The ginger beer is in there. You can taste that. Oh, yeah, ginger beer. It's ginger beer. The ginger makes it that's it cleans out the finish and it really gives it character where I was just expecting grape soda. Yeah, it's pretty good. So we've got another one that we'll try. Jeff and I got another RTD episode in the works that what? Yeah, that we'll try with that one. Ten part series. It'll get better and better. That's what we're giving you content for the rest of the calendar year. You don't have to worry about anything. You know that that's important to me, but also for those of us who didn't know, like me, it's called a transfusion because it's believed to be a hangover remedy. So kind of like a hair of the dog and the grape juice and the ginger are supposed to be good for you. Oh, it sounds super restorative. It's a health drink. I mean, it's literally a health drink. Yeah. Barrel to Bottle, The Binny's Podcast does not offer medical advice. These are the opinions of Greg and... Pretty good, though, right? I feel like that's probably got Stevie in it, right? Something. It does say natural. I feel like you're on the war path for Stevie today. You just took that check from Big Sugar and from... Roger's second job is on Domino's PR team. Well, also, Roger, if it didn't have a little bit of sweetener, then the ginger would just pop too much. And now it's balanced because the ginger is like... This is really sweet. It's like grape soda. 12.99 and the Binny's near you. No? No, no? Both of you guys? No. I'm also a grape juice snob as well. I don't really like grape juice. Yeah, it ends up being dish raggy a lot of the time. It's tough to make grape juice, right? Well, even though they use grape juice in there, it tastes like grape soda, the natural flavors. But the ginger is also a grape-cooled man flavor. The ginger beer, I think, is what really kind of dominates in the finish. I agree. I wish there were more ginger beer. It's there, but I feel like it got crushed by the grape-cooled man. Alright, rolling on with real cocktails. We have probably my favorite from the big can tasting this year. This was my favorite. Which is a painkiller from Pusser's Rum. Just getting excused for Roger to talk about Pursers and Navy strength and all this nonsense. Dude, did you try this? No. Oh my God. You didn't try it when we... You're in for such a treat right now. This is going to be your new go-to. Oh, no, he's not going to like it. No, he's going to make his own. I've also been excited to try this one. I just saw the branding on the shelf. It's superb. I don't know how we have anything after this because it's going to trounce everything else in flavor. We've got a pretty strong one after this. Oh, do you smell this? This is awesome. This is on sale for $14.99 a four-pack at a Binny's near you. What's the elk? Why would you drink any of these others? 12.5%. 12.5% and it tastes like a real cocktail, a real tropical cocktail. Whoa, I got chunks. Awesome. I think you pour this over ice for a fuller experience, but it's really good. If you're feeling fancy, serve in a cocktail glass with a garnish. You getting the nutmeg on this? Nutmeg, it apparently is a staple of the Caribbean cocktails. Created at the Soggy Dollar Bar because you get to get there by boat. That's why we have him on this. You jump off the boat, walk into shore, your money's wet. Soggy Dollar. There's a real palette of feel, fruit juice, spice, rum, coconut, pineapple. Coconut, pineapple juice, orange juice, topped with freshly grated nutmeg. Okay, you take some of this and you pour it on top of that guava one that we had earlier. Highly recommend. Passion fruit one that we had earlier. Winner. Right? It's so good. This is Tip Top. This is their Bee's Knees. These are strong cocktails. Super strong, meant to be poured over ice. What's a Bee's Knees? It's kind of like a lion tail. Bee's Knees is honey. It's honey and gin. Best topped with a rosemary sprig. And lemon. That would be good. Honey, gin, lemon. Pat's favorite whiskey drink, the Gold Rush. It's a Gold Rush with gin, essentially. Oh, this is so good. Yeah, this needs ice. It is way too strong to be drinking without ice. Tip Top is 26%. Wow, 26% alcohol. They're tiny little 100ml cans. You can get them as singles or four packs, depending on the binny. In some stores, we can't sell singles of this. These guys are doing canned cocktails right. I really love everything they do. Their stuff is fantastic. Their Negroni is really great. Their Jungle Bird that was last year. The Mai Tai is really good. Yeah, those are legit. The Daiquiri is great. All their stuff is great. Even the Manhattan, like in old fashion, which I really don't think, Manhattan especially, I don't think should be premixed just because of the vermouth, and it tastes good. It really does. These were the standout for me in last year's Cannapaluza. It was their stuff. Well, because there's nothing else like it. Yeah. The Cutwater guys were making something crazy like this for a little while. There's a lot of copycats on these guys. Even the same like Tiny Can, right? Exactly. The first time I saw this can size, which is adorable, was the Hochstotters. Yeah, which we still sell, the Slow and Low, Rock and Rye. I am surprised that this company doesn't have more of a social presence because of how cute and adorable these are. They're so adorable. They're just adorable. You simply have little individuals of these at a register and people pick them up. They're great. But they're monster drinks inside. They are monster drinks. This is not the typical lunchtime special. We're edging into the On The Rocks territory. They could put this out in a 3.75 or a 7.50, but it would be like 30 or 40 bucks. Yeah. How much are these? 3.99 a can. What? Yeah, they're like four bucks a can. Yeah, five bucks a can, 20 bucks a four pack. That's crazy. Yeah, we generally sell them by the can. Well, I mean, for what you're getting, it's... That's great. Yeah, that's... That's half the price minimum that cocktail would cost a bar in the city. That's a third of the price. Yeah. Okay, we don't know how to hang out at River North, but in sunny Lincolnwood, Illinois. You can go to the biggest truck stop in Iowa and you get one of these for five bucks. We'll go to the Moose Lodge after we're done today, and we'll have our 250 Highlifes. I mean, these are legit cocktails. Yeah. Agreed. This is a great flavor to add to the lineup. This is really good. I would love to try the, what's the whiskey version of this? The Gold Rush. I would love to try their take on a Gold Rush. Yeah, me too. They have not done one that I know of yet. So we've got Bees Knees, Boulevardier was good. Daiquiri, Espresso Martini. The Daiquiri, Sneaky Good. I wish the Jungle Bird was around still. That's a bummer. Yeah, that was delicious. That was delicious. And like Green Can too. Like it was just everything about that works. My Time Manhattan, Margarita, Negroni, old fashioned. Awesome. So if you're looking for a birthday present, a bunch of these is absolutely adorable. Cocktail salad. Cocktail salad. I'm on a salad diet. Is that it? Is that the show? Is that what we got? Yeah, we tried to save the strong and maybe better stuff for the end. Well, those are real cocktails. Real packaged cocktails that are just ready to pour and go. They're not a vodka soda. And that's kind of the range of this category. You have the 5% to 7% and lower. Those are just kind of like porch pounders. You open a 12-pack of those. The flavor doesn't almost even matter as much. And we had some that were way better than I was expecting. You could legit just open those and put them into actual glassware and bring them out to your guests and be like, I made drinks. I bet you some bars are doing that. Hmm, some casino bars. Yeah, probably. Jeff and I will be back with more RTDs soon. Seriously though, what do you have in the works? We're going to focus on the cross-branding ones, like the Welch's of the world, the Fresco's of the world. Every brand that has a thing that jumped into the alcohol. The rebranding of major consumer packaged goods brands as alcohol. Yes, Dunkin Donuts, Welch's, Mountain Dew. Oh, we had those. Those Mountain Dews weren't so bad. They were not- Sunny D. I just saw the Welch's ones. The Welch's might be the most hilariously inappropriate. You mean like kids' fruit snacks, like Welch's or Jam? Have you had Dino Nugs? I mean- Don't drink those, those are mommy's. Dino Nugs, high alcohol barbecue sauce coming soon. The ranch dressing flavors are really- So we have enough that we can fill a whole episode with this consumer packaged goods hellscape. Okay, it's coming. Hey, thanks for bringing this load of cocktails. You're welcome. We do things here by the cart full. Thanks for listening to Barrel to Bottle. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed that 100 milliliter tiny little cocktail. It was good. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and Nothing Else Matters. Tell your neighbors about Barrel to Bottle. Tell your friends. Tell your mom I said hi. And if you have a question for us or anything we're talking about here, please shoot us a note. Comments are binnys.com or at Binny's Bev on the social media of your choice. If we answer your question on a podcast, we'll give you a $20 Binny's Gift Card. Back in your feed next week, something, I don't know, serious, probably rosé. I don't know. Boring. Until then, I'm Greg. I'm Pat. I'm Roger. I'm Lexi. Jeff, keep tasting.