Heh. Your loss 
I’m actually pretty good at that baking thing.
You should try my Sprite-Meringue Pie!
-D/a
bartenders do it all the time.
So does this mean i’m good to go on “Nuts n’ Gum”?
I’ve actually seen pre-mixed alcoholic drinks sold in cans, for example Jack Daniels and Coke. It therefore must be legal to do it, but you need to get the permission of both companies.
That’s unlikely, as it would run afoul of most liquor sales laws. If you look closely at the can you’ll find that there’s no Jack Daniels in there, just malt beverage (essentially Zima) mixed with whatever they need. And those are licensed and made by Jack Daniels mostly. I’ve never seen those made by a 3rd party.
Why would it?
Also, I’m in the UK, perhaps our liquor laws are different to yours.
But it uses the Jack Daniels logo and name though. Why would JD allow the use of their name on something that isn’t JD?
I don’t even know what Zima is. (Googles it. Hmm, sort of nearly beer. No, I can’t see that being sold as JD.)
I was referring to the US, so the laws may very well be different.
But it is. There is a strong division in the US between hard liquor and beer/wine. There are much stronger licensing and tax schemes for hard liquor, and although each state is different I don’t believe you can sell hard liquor at convenience stores or supermarkets anywhere. To sell these pre-made cocktails in those stores the alcohol has to be classified in the same way as beer/wine, thus they use malt liquor instead. Smirnoff Ice is the same thing - there’s no vodka in those.
JD also sells JD and Cola pre-mixes but it isn’t Coca-Cola, just generic cola flavoring. But those can only be sold where hard liquor is sold.
Hard liquor (rum, whiskey, etc) is sold in ordinary stores in Illinois. I saw some at a CVS in Champaign.
It is a Jack Daniels product. It’s just not Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey.
Under their Jack Daniels Country Cocktails
brand, they sell Ginger Splash, Black Jack Cola, Jack’s Sweet Tea, Downhome Punch, and Lynchburg Lemonade.
Noted at the bottom of the website is:
As Telemark noted, the Black Jack Cola doesn’t use the marks Coke or Coca-Cola. There’s no way that Coca-Cola would allow that.
But it doesn’t just say “Jack Daniels” though, it says old no 7 Tennessee whiskey. How can they get away with calling it *Whiskey *if it isn’t?
As for it not being Coca Cola, I could have sworn I’ve seen Coke mixed with some famous brand name whiskey. Maybe not JD, but something. I’ll have to do more research to find it. Not that I’ve ever bought it, I’m capable of mixing my own scotch and coke.
Did they also sell champagne?
In the US, it doesn’t say that. Take a look at the labels in the link posted, it just says Jack Daniel’s. Nothing about whiskey. It’s the same with Smirnoff Ice - no where on the bottle does it say “vodka”. Do you have a picture of the label on the drinks you’re seeing?
They may make premixes with actual Jack Daniel’s whiskey, but they are not the common ones you see. In most states in the US, they would only be available for sale in liquor stores which makes them much less attractive to sell. Once you’re in the liquor store you just buy the whiskey and cola yourself.
Plenty. Jack Daniel's and Cola
Googling “jack Daniels and cola” produces hundreds of similar pictures, at least on the UK version of the search engine.
California allows hard liquor sales in supermarkets. In California there are at least two types of liquor licenses. One which allows selling of low alcohol things like beer wine and the malt beverages like coolers and the JD cola things and one which allows selling of stronger hard liquor. The beer and wine license is much cheaper.
All I can add is that the US version of Jack Daniel’s Cola is one of the most vile beverages I have ever attempted to consume. Good thing Jack is already dead, if he saw his name attached to this swill, it would have killed him.
I don’t know if we have those in the States, at least I haven’t seen them. Next time I’m in a liquor store I’ll look for them. The stuff I see is the vile concoction TriPolar mentioned. With the way those are labeled I would imagine that they are indeed using real Jack Daniel’s whiskey.
But back to the OP, these aren’t examples of mixing two brands. They are made by JD and don’t even include Coca-Cola brand products, just generic cola.
Point taken, but how about premixed Gordon’s Gin and Scweppes Tonic Water, here.
These are two big name brands over here, I don’t know if they are well known over there. They appear to be two different companies, as far as I can tell.
What about them? I’d be shocked if it turned out they weren’t collaborating in this.
Strange question.
The subject of this thread is : Can I mix two food products together and market them?
Ready mixed G&T, sold in cans, with the gin made by one company, and tonic made by a different company is an example of someone doing just that.
Well obviously they are.
Well, yeah, that’s the point. Implicit in the OP’s question is that he doesn’t have permission from the trademark owners. In the case you’re talking about, of course it’s done with the trademark owners’ consent. After all, if he had permission, the whole thing is really moot, isn’t it?
I think the answer is that without the trademark holders’ permission, you can do it, but not if you’re actually using their trademarks to market the product. The real question, as has been asked earlier in this thread, would be that it would likely not work out economically. You’d be buying premium goods at retail prices and using them as inputs, which is usually not an effective way to do business.