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it's confusing because buzzballz now manufactures across malt/wine/spirit alcohol bases, but the brand's mass popularity was built on flavoring OTS wine (cheap bulk plonk, basically) into something approximating a cocktail that could be sold in gas stations:
tag yourself, i'm "other than standard orange wine"
[roy batty from blade runner voice] i've seen COLAs you people wouldn't believe
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yes, correct:
As my wife (pro brewer) is fond of saying: “Americans just want to be bitch-slapped in the face with flavor.”
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