It’s just a brand guys, they make beer too. I actually really like the beer…
It’s called liquid death as a beer company name that later branched or into water. They aren’t calling the water specifically liquid death.
It’s like asking why they call an ice cream flavor carnation, when it’s clearly strawberry.
Makes sense, brewers know water
Is it marketing? I bet it’s marketing.
There is a How I Built This podcast that interviews the founder. He was in marketing/advertising as a creative his entire career before he started the company. Actually, he didn’t even have enough money to make the first batch, so he created a video and Facebook page that went viral and got him enough interest and actual orders to prove to investors that they should fund him.
Because the average person is stupid and will pay $4 for fucking water because it looks like an energy drink.
I just want portable water not in a plastic container. Also they’re like a buck fifty.
All aluminum cans have a plastic epoxy liner.
So enjoy.
Yes and it’s still infinitely recyclable, unlike plastic bottles. 70% of all aluminum ever produced is still in circulation thanks to how efficient aluminum recycling is, including epoxy lined cans.
So I will enjoy.
Does the liner contribute to microplastics in whatever is contained? Genuine question, that’d be a point against the epoxy liner. Of course any solution would have to include an effective replacement, so 🤷 Wax, maybe?
Yes, its also releasing BPA.
TIL 😢
Don’t worry it’s still recyclable
Epoxy is not plastic.
Yeah, I got mine for 98 cents a can. Highest price I’ve seen is like two bucks.
I got news for you about modern cans if you’re trying to avoid plastic. They’re lined with, you guessed it, plastic.
How much plastic? Not nearly the same amount and the bulk of the packaging is recyclable.
Not sure if the concern was based on recyclability or consumption of microplastics. If the concern is about waste, then they should be using a reusable container instead.
Or because it’s the only water available at most concerts.
This exactly. Unless you’re willing to drink from a communal jug that you can’t guarantee no one has opened or spiked it with anything. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t buy Liquid Death either. I just drink water before entering the venue. Also, this applies to smaller venues that only have a bar, not arenas that sell bottled water.
Do you guys not have taps that water comes out of?
In some smaller bars, they use large coleman type jugs with taps and a stack of paper cups. If you ask for water at the bar, they will point you to the jug.
Wtf, my condolences on the lack of hygiene regulations in your county
A communal jug?! Dafuq?! Why are your venues storing water in a communal jug?
In some smaller bars, they use large coleman type jugs with taps and a stack of paper cups. If you ask for water at the bar, they will point you to the jug.
Liquid death is legit the best carbonated water though, the texture is more like beer rather than pop
Hows the mouthfeel?
Lol
People call me crazy, but I agree. It definitely has a cleaner taste and better overall mouth feel that most.
Closest I think that compares might be topo chico, but it seems to go flat faster.
It’s tap water in a can. Everything else is made up in your mind.
Lol sure if you say so
Bro’s talking about “texture” for sparkling water, how dare you not take him seriously?
Lol fuck off have you tried it? If you did a blind taste test of carbonated waters you would easily be able to tell what I mean
🤣🤣🤣 There’s a reason Facebook apple liquid death are billion dollar companies and the reason are guys like him who love the texture of carbonated water 🤣🤣🤣
TIL Liquid Death is water lol. I always assumed it was one of those coffee/energy drink hybrids from the name and price.
They also have some teas, their Arnold Palmer is really good.
The peach tea is really good too. Light on the sugar
Glad Im not the only one who went “Wait, it’s just fucking water?!”
if you’re in this thread you should be reading Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle
I really like their lime flavor but I don’t get them very often. Are people here mad that consumers like to buy something with fun marketing? Yeah it’s a sparkling water with a ridiculous name. Sorry for having fun.
I just went to a festival that had only this brand for even regular still water, no water bottles with a cap. It was insanely irritating to not be able to just hang on to a bottle of water in my bag and pull it out whenever to take a sip, you have to just sit there and drink the whole water at once. Or toss it and spend another $6 to buy another can of water when you’re thirsty again. A small problem as problems go but frustrating at the time!
Or… Bring an empty reusable bottle with you.
The festival specifically didn’t allow this either, they want you to spend your money inside the festival. I actually did bring my own water bottle anyway because I carry an electrolyte drink with me everywhere to help with a medical condition. The guy checking bags gave me a hard time but I stood my ground and brought it in. But they don’t make it easy
Well that stinks.
I work as a bartender in a live music venue in the Netherlands.
We, just like most festivals, used to always remove the caps from the water bottles, citing safety concerns (people would drop the bottle when empty but put the cap on, which is a nasty tripping hazard).
So a company started to make bottlecaps that clip to your pants, and most water vendors used a single size opening, which made this feasible. People held on to their cap, and could pause drinking.
Then water companies started to attach the cap to the bottle, to prevent litter, and the government issuing a mandate requiring us to charge per plastic unit.
So now we leave the caps on, but as guests return about 95% of bottles and cups to the bar (buying a drink without having a cup adds a 1 eur plastic surcharge), the safety hazard is basically gone.
As a bartender, I’d very much prefer bottles of water to cans. It allows guests to drink at their leasure, they’re easier to transport and can’t cause as much harm as a can (either by throwing or when squeezing it).
They are slightly visually less appealing than a cool can though, I’ll give them that.
(people would drop the bottle when empty but put the cap on, which is a nasty tripping hazard).
How does having the cap on change the danger level of the hazard?
A bottle full of air rolls when stepped on, with no cap they just squish flat.
[I’m starting to enjoy the response I’m getting to this take. The passion, anger and vitriol directed at me for questioning this shit. It’s hilarious, and I just can’t help myself… Stepped on an empty water bottle with a cap on today and guess what happened? It was immediately crushed, and I am not a heavy person. Please, tell me again how angry that statement just made you]
I suppose… Have you felt how thin the plastic is on water bottles these days though? I feel like the plastic would give first whether there’s a cap on or not. Maybe depends on the person’s weight.
Edit: Lol lots of angry folks here. To the person who said I’m ignoring “actual data”: what fucking data? Somebody said a thing, and now that’s “data”? You’ve got some actual data about the dangers of stepping on water bottles?
It seems like people are referring to unopened bottles of water. Didn’t see anything to indicate that in the original comment, but I guess it makes a little more sense if we’re talking about unopened bottles of water. Since we’re talking about trash that people throw on the ground, I guess I assumed the bottled was not only opened, but empty. Because it’s trash.
That said, I stand by my original comment. Plastic water bottles are made of fucking tissue paper these days. They 100% would snap if someone stepped on an opened/empty bottle.
You were given the reason why and then disagreed with it based on feeling you have about how things are instead of actual data.
actual data
Oh shit, I must have missed this data. Can you provide this so-called “actual data” that I was presented with and ignored?
Take a look at my edit. If it’s a full, unopened water bottle, I’m not completely sure. But if the bottle is open (you know, like trash thrown on the ground almost always is), it’ll break if you step on it.
Plastic doesn’t tear just because you feel it’s weaker than it used to be. And, You are being childish.
I really don’t care to read about how you are possibly able to comprehend other people’s points, and the legit reason why clubs and spaces are worried about sealed bottles on the ground because of personal feelings as long as you stretch it to match your desired view of the world. Be wrong once in a while.
Plastic bottles are always pressurised at the factory. They can hold shit load of weight when closed, otherwise they would explode during the packaging process.
I guess I was assuming the bottle wasn’t sealed shut since we’re talking about literal garbage that people throw on the ground.
If it’s not sealed then it doesn’t matter if the plastic is thinner by a few microns.
If you know you’re going to a festival why not bring your own reusable bottle of water and use the cans to top it up?
If you’re planning a festival with thousands of people why not provide life giving water without charging 6 dollars?
Or to put it in internet speak “why do anything when you can do something else?”
What festivals aren’t providing water stations anymore?
Most people just don’t look for the stations, or don’t want to wait in the longer line.
Because you want to make profit off people who are too incompetent to bring their own water.
This is a kind of problems that would be solved instantly if people just didn’t consent to being abused.
Wait hold on, so someone buys tickets to an event, show up, and have to buy canned water.
What, in your imagination, should be the next steps so they “don’t consent to being abused”?
Don’t go to that venue again
Doesn’t sound very instant to me
Having Live Nation as a prime investor kind of helps.
Yeah, I’ve only ever seen this brand when it was the only option to get water, in a place where I wasn’t allowed to bring my own water ಠ_ಠ
Wait where don’t they let you bring water? Is that even legal?
One concert I went to that didn’t let you bring water in ended up getting shut down because the only water available was bathroom sink water or tap water in a plastic cup for $8. And they didn’t let you bring your plastic cups into the bathroom to refill them.
Probably about a third of the people there had to leave from passing out/dehydration and a bunch left in ambulances. And this was a concert where probably 90% of the people there were on drugs, which in my eyes makes the whole water situation even more irresponsible.
So legal, yeah probably, but also entirely fucked.
I used to get them all the time. I’m basically addicted to carbonated water and these offer tall can versions vs plastic bottles or smaller cans.
Eventually I just switched to a sodastream though, waaay cheaper
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I like the idea of water in cans, this rivals one of own business ventures from a few years ago.
The issue I have with this is that this is clearly a profit based initiative, and I do not believe environmental benefits are really considered unless it adds to the profit.
Why do they not sell the cans at a reasonable price? Because it won’t make them a billion dollars if they did this.I just have my doubts that this has anything to do with doing any good for the planet, it’s just expensive water that exists to fill pockets with money. Any benefit seems like a side effect.
Bottles like these while being metal still contain a very thin plastic layer. But still a step in the right direction
They don’t contain plastic.
It tastes like transformer piss I hate it
Colour me piqued.
The same way that can full of piss of a drink called prime became so popular
The stores around me always have a fucking ton of Prime but I never see anyone buying it or drinking it, it’s weird. I feel like Logan Paul is gaslighting me.
well there was a period in the UK last year when it was so popular that there was a shortage of it with small convenience stores selling it for £10 a bottle. I think stores stockpiled them at the time, now they are back to being worthless.
Tried it once. The flavor was alright, but it was barely carbonated to the point where it went completely flat before I even finished the can. I definitely don’t see the appeal.
I’ve heard that their market is recovering alcoholics.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, Steve O for example has LD cans on his vidcast all the time when talking about addiction and such. Recovery being a big topic he touches on a lot.
Never bought it, never will. I don’t understand people sometimes.
As someone else said, recovering alcoholics, but also they market towards sustainability. Infinitely recyclable aluminum instead of single use bottles and all that. I’m still just gonna drink from the tap most of the time, but I’ll pick one up on a road trip or if I’m going on a picnic or something
Infinitely reciclable alluminum, but covered in plastic lol
Apparently their market is recovering alcoholics that want to feel like they’re holding a beer can when they’re out with friends.
That’s… actually pretty cool. It tells me the water itself is actually not the product, it’s the can design. They’re essentially selling a way of overcoming the very real social anxiety alcoholics can go through when they give up booze, but don’t want to give up the social lives they’ve built around drinking.
I was all ready to hate on this, but if it’s actually legitimately helping people stay off alcohol while maintaining a social life, then I can’t really fault it.
Non-alcoholic beer exists and is available in cans. They even figured out how to make it taste like the “real” thing.
As someone who doesn’t drink alcohol anymore but still loves the taste of beer, I highly recommend it!
Non-alcoholic and near-zero-ABV beers don’t comport with a lot of people’s sobriety.
Neither does being around other people when they drink, but some of us prefer not to close ourselves off to the rest of the world rather than making adjustments to make it easier to have a good time without getting drunk.
Just because some people are absolutists doesn’t make you any more drunk from drinking beer with the alcohol content equivalent of a ripe banana (0.5% ABV) or less.
It’s not about being an absolutist; it’s about understanding every person’s sobriety is unique. I think you should focus on growing some empathy.
I have plenty of empathy. Maybe don’t say that every person’s sobriety is unique as a way to invalidate a part of mine.
I understand that some people would consider the taste a trigger that might make them want to drink regular beer. That’s how I feel about the smrll of cigarette smoke, even as I’m simultaneously repulsed by it.
For some of us, though, being able to have the pleasant taste without getting drunk makes it easier to stay sober than having no other source for it. It works for me and it works for A LOT of other people too.
What brand(s) comes closest to tasting good, in your experience?
A lot of the ones I drink are only available in Denmark, but the Dutch Bavaria and the German Perlenbacher make non-alcoholic beers that taste great and (especially in the case of Perlenbacher) are actually cheap too!
Of the more pricey ones, Italian Peroni and Danish Mikkeler also have some delicious non-alcoholic ones.
There’s tons of others too, especially if you (unlike me) don’t mind a moderately to very hoppy taste. Those are just off the top of my head 🙂
It’s only a dollar here and I like that it comes in a can, not a plastic bottle simply because it gets colder faster and stays colder longer.
That’s not how thermodynamics work. It’s either transferring heat more efficiently, or not. But always the same, in both directions.
Explain insulation and conduction.
I like that it comes in a can, not a plastic bottle simply because it gets colder faster and stays colder longer.
If it feels colder in your hand, it means the opposite of what you assume: It absorbs heat from your hand faster, so the stays colder shorter.
Imagine instead you hold a perfectly insulated container. You could not feel wether the inside is hot or cold, or else the insulation would be faulty.
So if you really want to have a drink that stays colder longer, grab something which does not give away how cold it is, quite literally.
It’s only a dollar here
for… water.
Some people live in places where the tap water tastes like chemical asshole. Or they travel. Whatever the reason, buying water happens.
This is the baffling part. I live in a country that periodically grades the taste of regional water supplies, in addition to testing for solids and the usual. And I live in a part of that country consistently known for really great-tasting tap water.
It’s baffling that they’d sell water in a can. Please don’t tell me it’s bottled in Atlanta, where they bottle the worst-tasting coca-cola in the world, or it’ll be extra-baffling.
I mean, buying a bottle of water is at least a dollar too.
At the super market? I pay 0,29€ for 1,5l or 0,15€ for 0,5l.
If it is at a gas station 1$ seems really cheap though.
