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How to Homebrew Your Own Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage or, "Vodka redbull (suck it FDA)"

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Reason fan and YouTuber flashadney has created the public-service announcement in the wake of the FDA's ban on caffeinated alcoholic beverages such as, in the immortal words of Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), "Four Loko, Joose, and some of the other ones."

Flashadney may not have the prose chops of the father of microbrewing, Fred Eckhardt, but his point is sharply made in a scant 37 seconds.

Here's two Reason.tv vids well worth watching. Up first, it's Four Loko vs. Joose in Buzz Bowl I (spoiler alert: they both lose to Chuck Schumer's crushing blitz of pettifoggery). And then it's time for Beer: An American Revolution.

And here's the beer frame beer video:

Hat tip: Paul Detrick