# Colt 45 Blast: Holy shit!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865 "2011-04-27T05:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/1 "2011-04-27T05:04:10Z")
If all you want to do is get drunk quickly, your Messiah is here: Colt 45 Blast. 12% alcohol (FYI regular beer has between 4-5%) First I tried The Blueberry/Pomegranate flavor: Pours an electric blue like Smurf cum. The aroma is it’s only weakness. It smells a bit like puke. No head. VERY low carbonation. This goes down super smooth, like freaking Kool-Aid I kid you not. It is a FANTASTIC alcohol delivery system. I paid $1.79 for a 24 ounce can @ Woodmans. 1 can is the alcohol equal to 5 regular beers. Where are you getting 5 beers for under 2 bucks? You can easily slam 2 cans of this in under 5 minutes! This will FUCK-YOU-UP something **fierce**! Why didn’t they make shit like this when I was in college? Next I tried the Raspberry/Watermelon flavor. It looks like kool Aid. It smells like Kool-Aid. It tastes like Kool-Aid. It has almost no carbonation like Kool-Aid. It has no characteristics of malt liquor in the least. it has a very pleasant fruit flavor. Even the [cans](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fMhEiq7kE5A/TZob9SgKMEI/AAAAAAAAGi0/4LTs0PdbLgU/s1600/colt+45+blast.jpg) look like soda. I’m betting they ban this stuff before Labor Day! ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/2 "2011-04-27T05:17:39Z")
I agree. After the whole Four Loko thing, this won’t last very long at all. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/3 "2011-04-27T05:42:59Z")
If I want to get drunk quickly, I drink vodka and orange juice. Faster, cheaper, and tastier. Plus, vitamin C! All those “special” drinks are for pussies. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/4 "2011-04-27T06:11:49Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > If I want to get drunk quickly, I drink vodka and orange juice. Faster, **cheaper** I challenge you on this, my friend: Show me the math! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/5 "2011-04-27T06:28:56Z")
Aahh, I’ve done it. Along with a certain tea made out of something illegal. Quite interesting results, including getting married in the church of peyote and winding up in the middle of nowhere with a psycho and having to walk several miles to call my aunt and uncle to release me from the psycho. It will be a cold day in Hell before I ever look at that stuff again. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/6 "2011-04-27T06:36:54Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > Aahh, I’ve done it. Along with a certain tea made out of something illegal. Quite interesting results, including getting married in the church of peyote and winding up in the middle of nowhere with a psycho and having to walk several miles to call my aunt and uncle to release me from the psycho. > It will be a cold day in Hell before I ever look at that stuff again. Haven’t I seen this as a fiction story in the\* New Yorker\*? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/7 "2011-04-27T06:49:44Z")
Never heard of this stuff. For a quick, cheap drunk I get Steel Reserve. 8.1% alcohol and just $1.29 per 24 oz. can. A lot of people think it tastes nasty, but after a couple of swallows I stop noticing, or perhaps caring, about the taste. I don’t know about flavored malt beverages though, I would probably get sick of the taste after half a can. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/8 "2011-04-27T07:52:08Z")
Alcohol that tastes like Kool-Aid is “fantastic”? How old are you? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/9 "2011-04-27T07:56:05Z")
> [@Panurge](#): > > Alcohol that tastes like Kool-Aid is “fantastic”? How old are you? .50 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/10 "2011-04-27T08:39:06Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > I challenge you on this, my friend: > > Show me the math! 😉 It depends on the vodka. Your Blast costs $1.79 per 24 ounces at 12% alcohol. That means it costs $0.64 per ounce of alcohol. Now, assuming that the vodka is 80 proof Finlandia, costing $20 per 34 ounces, plus $4 for decent OJ, that gives you $1.75 per ounce of alcohol. However, crappy vodka (the equivalent of Blast in terms of quality) and artificial OJ would total roughly $6 for the same volume, meaning that it would cost one quarter the price of the Finlandia - $0.44 per ounce, roughly 2/3 the price of the Blast. (It’s been a while since I’ve done any sort of math, so feel free to check my calculations. Prices are from cursory Google searches). ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/11 "2011-04-27T16:01:34Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It depends on the vodka. Irrelevant. I can’t stand vodka regardless of price/brand. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/12 "2011-04-27T16:06:29Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Irrelevant. I can’t stand vodka regardless of price/brand. Thats why you mix it with something that actually taste better, like clam juice. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/13 "2011-04-27T16:07:10Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Irrelevant. I can’t stand vodka regardless of price/brand. Not irrelevant, you challenged him on math not vodka. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/14 "2011-04-27T16:15:21Z")
The LCBO doesn’t list it…hope it’s coming to Canada! ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/15 "2011-04-27T16:18:33Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Thats why you mix it with something that actually taste better, like clam juice. Ooohhh, throw in some tomato juice and cheap-ass light beer and you might have a winner there! ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/16 "2011-04-27T16:41:52Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Thats why you mix it with something that actually taste better, like clam juice. How about [crab juice](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skurheg3P6I)? > [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Ooohhh, throw in some tomato juice and cheap-ass light beer and you might have a winner there! [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71EsxLI3254) guy begs to differ: _“It smells like puke. It kinda tastes like puke”._ ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/17 "2011-04-27T16:53:35Z")
I thought the bigger problem with Four Loko was that it also had caffeine (well, in addition to having high alcohol content, cheap, enough sugar to drown out all the booze, packaged to look like soda/energy drink, and the case that stores had them in always seemed to be the case between the beer and energy drinks, etc…) Of course, this stuff satisfies all those other qualities…but no caffeine! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/18 "2011-04-27T17:00:22Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I thought the bigger problem with Four Loko was that it also had caffeine (well, in addition to having high alcohol content, cheap, enough sugar to drown out all the booze, packaged to look like soda/energy drink, and the case that stores had them in always seemed to be the case between the beer and energy drinks, etc…) > > Of course, this stuff satisfies all those other qualities…but no caffeine! 😃 Colt 45 Blast tastes better than Four Loko. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/19 "2011-04-27T17:38:52Z")
You know what’s great? Vodka and Red Bull. It’s Four Loco for the non-terminally lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865/20 "2011-04-28T00:33:23Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Pours an electric blue like Smurf cum. The aroma is it’s only weakness. It smells a bit like puke. Mmm, you’re really selling it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colt-45-blast-holy-shit/579865.md?page=2)