alcohol for us kiddies! yay! (Bacardi Breezer)

Member Name: strange_child

Product:	Bacardi Breezer
Date:	16/05/02 (1613 review reads)
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Advantages: tastes lovely, not very alcoholic

Disadvantages: sometimes you don't realise how much you've drunk, immature!

It seems that Bacardi Breezers, among other equally fruity alcoholic drinks are some of the first that people my age, namely teenagers, get into when they start drinking. It’s not generally the boys, who I think secretly love the taste, but it’s just about impossible for a party to go by without huge crates of Bacardi being cracked open (well, not that dramatic hehe!). The reason? Well, Bacardi offers just the slightest taste of alcohol, that those who haven’t necessarily acquired a taste for beers, or wine or stronger spirits (which are very distinct when you start drinking), find it easy to drink. You could say, ‘oh why don’t you drink fruit juice? They taste the same!’. Well, yes they do have a very similar taste to soft drinks, but it’s that tiny 5% of alcohol that makes all the difference.

They come in a huge variety of flavours, and I’m always discovering new ones each time I go out…orange, watermelon, lime, peach, cranberry, pineapple…to be honest I can’t remember all of the flavours at the moment. I particularly like the watermelon as it’s really refreshing, and I like the orange and pineapple when I’m in a sweet toothed mood! Another reason for the popularity is that it’s a chance for (especially) girls to show off their maturity when they are teenagers – it doesn’t require ‘practising’, like you do when you first try wine, and the drinkers feel big. It’s also less easy to get drunk on, for example it takes a little girl like me about 3 to start to feel the effects, whereas I’m pretty tipsy after 3 wines!

The packaging and the advertising obviously plays a big role in how attractive Bacardi breezers seem. Each has a different colour assigned to it, and the colourful bottle tops are distinctive with what looks like a bat(?!) as the logo! I seem to remember at one drunken party trying to collect up all the Bacardi Breezer b
ottle tops because I suddenly had a mad idea about creating a mosaic! The advertising seems to push the drink as some kind of Latin phenomenon – it’s true that the creator was from Cuba - and that the drinker will suddenly start doing bad (but fun!) things and have a great time. Well, from all my memories of Bacardi, this has been the case!

I don’t think that this is a drink for serious alcohol ‘connoisseurs’ (or is that just alcoholics!). But then that is the point of an alcopop – to seem like a soft drink and disguise the alcohol taste, which isn’t necessarily bad! I think that once you reach a certain age, you seem quite immature drinking breezers, it’s a very young drink and as I stated before, you don’t really need to acquire the taste. It’s just one of those fashionable, nice tasting drink, that will no doubt go out of fashion in a few years.

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