Beers, malts, and RTDs that defined eras, then disappeared (and sometimes came back).

• Cisco Fortified Wine

  Fortified wine nicknamed 'liquid crack' after wave of hospitalizations

  1980–1991 🏷️ Alcoholic Beverages

• Four Loko (Original Caffeinated Formula)

  Caffeinated 'blackout in a can' banned after hospitalizations and deaths

  2005–2010 🏷️ Alcoholic Beverages

• SKYY Blue US

  The cobalt-bottled malt beverage that borrowed SKYY Vodka's premium image and quietly vanished after just two years

  2002–2004 🏷️ Alcoholic Beverages

• Sparks (Original Caffeinated Formula)

  An early alcoholic energy drink that mixed alcohol with caffeine and other stimulants before regulators forced a formula change.

  2002–2008 🏷️ Alcoholic Beverages

• Tilt (Original Formula)

  An alcoholic drink with caffeine and energy drink ingredients that regulators forced off shelves in 2008, years before Four Loko went throu…

  2005–2008 🏷️ Alcoholic Beverages

• Zima

  A clear citrus malt beverage from Coors that became a 1990s phenomenon, got thoroughly mocked by David Letterman, and somehow still has fan…

  1993–2008 🏷️ Alcoholic Beverages