Voted Australia's best seltzer in 2021 by Drink Easy
That's:
Mango x 12 cans
Raspberry x 12 cans
Blackcurrant x 12 cans
Watermelon x 12 cans
Pathetic website. States "alcoholic sparkling water" most likely cheap vodka as a mixing agent. They are hiding something.
Regular price is $110/slab for a measly 4% ABV?
LMAO have fun going broke.
the reason these drinks are so expensive is because they are classed as RTD's and a fair few years back the australian government decided to put about an 80% tax on RTD's to stop kids binge drinking. What they didn't think of, for some reason, is that it's now cheaper for the kids to buy an entire bottle of spirits and mix their own in the park therefore drinking more and being more dangerous
RTDs are taxed at $69.16 per litre of alcohol
How many $ tax is on this deal?
Isnt this unbelievable that a product with a large amount of tax is a "deal"?
Or a cask of goon $15 between 3 is much easier these days to get kids drunk
wine makers get huge tax breaks, maybe mates with politicians?
4L cask of fruity lexia 30std drinks $10 at Dans
4 pack of seltzer cans 4std drinks $25 at Dans
no logic at all to it
What's worse is that these seltzer aren't even "tasty" in the same way vodka cruisers etc are. These seltzers are just like those carbonated mineral waters with a splash of flavour.
Let's examine this a bit:
375ml x 0.04 = 15ml alcohol / can
15ml x 24 cans = 360ml alcohol / slab
$69.16 x 0.36 = $24.89 tax per carton.
Even taking away the exorbitant alcopops tax, that's still $85 / slab for low ABV fizzy water, which is outrageous.
Would love to see an infographic on this
Yep, this is still expensive even if it was the regular price. No deal here and not sure who would upvote (suspicious).
It's up to $87.68 per litre now. Crooked politicians have it on a schedule to increase every 6-months: https://www.ato.gov.au/business/excise-on-alcohol/lodging,-p…
I'm missing something with the seltzer popularity or just have tried some shit ones?
It literally tastes like mount franklin sparkling water with hint of some flavour + vodka?
I tried the jack Daniels one, it's was God dammed awful. Tasted like bad lemon ass.
That's induced popularity. This was a big thing in US for last couple of years due to exactly opposite reason - someone found a loophole in taxation, and hard seltzer is not taxed as other low alcohol beverages in US (something to do with brewing method). So, hard seltzer was dirt cheap there and gained popularity as go to drink for youth parties.
2021, Australia - marketing guys trying to convince us that this cheap piss for 4x price is popular because it's all over US instagram
well the Japanese do the same with beer, beer is taxed differently. So they invented "NOT BEER" called Happoshu, basically to get around the malt beverage tax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happ%C5%8Dshu
They tried a similar thing in Australia not too long ago but the problem was the products all tasted like crap and of course no one bought them. Some Seltzer companies in Australia are using a malt base so it's taxed as a beer basically and not spirits
This or buy 7 bottles of vodka, I wonder which one I’d be choosing.
…and im guessing you are not Russian.
![[NSW, QLD, VIC, ACT] 2x 24 Pack Cans of Wavee Hard Seltzer $170 Delivered (RRP $220 + $30 Shipping) @ Wavee Hard Seltzer](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/90/675590.jpg?h=84d55eec)
Is this vodka and flavour?