What is good! This week's booze review was kindly brought to you by me wanting to intentionally get another mockable beverage so you lot don’t think I’m an alcoholic.
Saints & Sinners are a rather funky duo of vodka soda and guarana extract. They’re available in Monster-esque cans containing something that could probably be passed off as an energy drink à la the Celsius mix-up the US is seeing at the moment. There’s two flavours called simply ‘blue’ or ‘pink’. I tried both, of course.
The blue flavour tastes blue as fuck, but in a very specific way. That way is V. This stuff tastes EXACTLY like blue V and it’s kind of fucked up cos it’d have to taste really good without alcohol in it, so maybe they can make a non-alcoholic lineup for that purpose. But anyway, it tastes a ridiculous amount like blue V.
The pink flavour, on the other hand, tastes like a mix of Pink Monster and mystery Nitro. How in the actual fuck have they managed this wizardry, I have no clue. We can somehow make stuff taste like other stuff without actually being that other stuff. Science is so fucking crazy dawg.
Although I do rate both flavours, the blue one is simply superior as it just doesn't taste like alcohol – a huge win for chugability. Plus I'm not a huge fan of mystery Nitro in general, which further detracts from the potential of a high rating. But that's probably misguided.
Do take it slow on these though. There’s a fair thwack of caffeine in them, so if you get anxiety poos from raw-dogging a mocha on an empty stomach, probably don't go for these. But you would probably have guessed that by the whole blue V flavour thing. S&S’s come in four-packs of 420mL 6% cans, meaning two standards per. These absolute pearlas are available at any good (but not posh) bottleshop, so bottlos and liquorlands should all carry these.
Flavour: Awesome/10
Scullability: 10/10
Pairs well with: Dirty Dogs and either a servo pie or sausage roll