Hop 'N Gator (mixture of lemon-lime Gatorade and beer)

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  1. hinemk76

    hinemk76 Initiate (0) Feb 6, 2012 Pennsylvania

    I loved that stuff...
     
  2. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand Pooh-Bah (5,291) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    I'll admit to being old enough that I tried it when it was first released. Seems to me it was a Gatorade flavor with a tartness and carbonation, and totally unexciting.
     
  3. CruisaC

    CruisaC Initiate (0) Sep 3, 2010 Ohio

    I've heard rumors of a return of the Hop'n Gator aged in 5-hr energy barrels...
     
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  4. Nutwood

    Nutwood Initiate (0) Jun 30, 2012 Kentucky

    Back in my more abusive days I used always drink Gatorade for the hangover. Seems like putting the cart before the horse, or the cart inside the horse, or something.
     
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  5. kmello69

    kmello69 Initiate (0) Nov 27, 2011 Texas

    Can I get that in the fruit punch flavor?
     
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  6. otispdriftwood

    otispdriftwood Initiate (0) Dec 9, 2011 Colorado

    Yeah, I remember the segment on Beer Wars now. Seems I need a memory jolt from time to time.
     
  7. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,071) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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    There was an urban legend around that time that mixing alcohol with Gatorade "gets you drunk quicker", so that may have been part of the thinking behind the product. There was a move by a few others brewers at the time to create what today would be called Flavored Malt Beverages - besides Pittsburgh's Hop'n Gator there was also National's Malt Duck and Lone Star's Lime Lager. Those products were marketed in hopes to stem the loss of some of the youth market which brewers felt had gone to the then-popular sweet, "pop" wines like Ripple, Boone's Farm and Bali Hai. Part of that popularity might have been influenced by the general opinion of dope smokers that cheap sweet wine "paired" better with marijuana than beer.
     
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  8. azorie

    azorie Pooh-Bah (2,409) Mar 18, 2006 Florida
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    I remember the original Gatorade it was terrible thing to taste. orange with a hint of battery acid and electrolytes, was a lemon lime also? but mixed with beer yuckie.
     
  9. libbey

    libbey Initiate (0) May 18, 2008 British Indian Ocean Territory
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    You sir are a living, breathing, drinking, beer encyclopedia.

    Thank you again for sharing some of your knowledge.
     
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  10. Bitterbill

    Bitterbill Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,772) Sep 14, 2002 Wyoming
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    I just did, for shits and giggles. Equal parts of Gatorade Lemon Lime and Newcastle Summer Ale. Not bad.
     
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  11. DarthTremens

    DarthTremens Initiate (0) Feb 19, 2012 Pennsylvania

    well a pilsner or any lager really and lemonade are pretty damn good so I don't see why this wouldnt be good as well. its all about the rattler!
     
  12. tyrsis

    tyrsis Savant (1,050) Mar 13, 2009 California
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    Sounds like an awful version of a Radler. Do not want
     
  13. roscoehnj

    roscoehnj Initiate (0) Oct 4, 2007 New Jersey

    Drank this a couple times in the early '70s as a teenager before developing a taste for beer. Didn't think it was so bad then but it sounds awful now.
     
  14. BlackBelt5112203

    BlackBelt5112203 Initiate (0) Jan 2, 2012 Michigan

    You don't have to be an old timer to have tried this. I went to college in Pittsburgh and I remember first trying this stuff at the first frat party I ever went to. I thought it was awesome, but that's cuz I was a dumb college freshman. A few of my buddies and I bought a 24 pack of bottles later that year and played beer pong with it. None of us got even close to drunk. It was like playing beer pong with soda. We tried finding it sophomore year just for old times sake and we couldn't find it. I know Iron City got sued by Gatorade and it ceased production, so maybe that was in 2007? We definitely could get some in '06.
     
  15. Cavmanjohn

    Cavmanjohn Initiate (0) Dec 31, 2012

    I was hoping that the product was still around? It was offered at Seven/Eleven stores in the Atlanta, GA area back in the late 1960's & early 1970's. The label had a gator sitting in a lounge chair with an umbrella sipping the brew.
    I really liked it but it was best served really cold. Had a fruity taste to it.
     
  16. sunkistxsudafed

    sunkistxsudafed Initiate (0) Apr 30, 2010 New Mexico

    it's a raddler of sorts...
     
  17. soughtbygod

    soughtbygod Initiate (0) Apr 27, 2011 California

    no its "Red bull crap"
     
  18. jRocco2021

    jRocco2021 Savant (1,071) Mar 13, 2010 Wisconsin

    A long time ago they used to make this stuff called Beer I'd be curious how it tastes, anyone ever had this?
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  19. NickyDee21

    NickyDee21 Initiate (0) Dec 23, 2011 Pennsylvania

    i believe Sparks is as close to the idea that has been invented. It's a energy drink malt beverage if my memory serves me right
     
  20. NickyDee21

    NickyDee21 Initiate (0) Dec 23, 2011 Pennsylvania

    http://www.sparks.com/
     
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