Have you ever seen a drink define a generation? Maybe when you were a teenager you felt like a badass walking into a convenience store and spending your allowance money on a monster red bull jolt or rock star energy drink

Monster Energy Un unleash the beast.

Rock stop. Don't play by the rules.

Red Bull gives you a win.

Whether you bought them to cram for a history test the next day or just to feel cool, the energy

spike from these drinks may have been the only legal and accessible kind of high you could get your hands

on at that age.

Sure, you knew that you probably shouldn't have them, but their forbidden nature only made

them all the more tempting. As energy drinks grew more popular and as you grew older, maybe

you had the bright idea to combine alcohol and caffeine, like having a

Red Bull and Vodka at a frat party. Well, you wouldn't be alone. Humans have been combining

alcohol and caffeine for centuries. Coffee wine was invented in protein bar form back in 800

a.d. The recipe for Tia Maria coffee liqueur dates back to the 17th century and the black Russian cocktail was invented in the 1940s.

But in the mid 2000s a new generation defining drink came along to push those

boundaries for loco. For Loco was liquid hyperbole, a blackout in a can, and has been

called fucking insane on every level. Though the equivalents differ depending on which article

and source you're looking at, some say a single Four Loco The

equivalent to which article in source you're looking at. Some say a single four loco was comparable to

drinking six beers all at once. The Wall Street Journal claimed that it was more

like 12 and the Yale Daily News argued it was basically a single cup of coffee and three beers.

Four loco's manufacturer, Fusion Projects, said it was essentially wine, some craft beers,

and a tall Starbucks coffee all in one.

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