Box Wine
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franz at 08.4.08 - 7:20 pm
This is the perfect bike drink as we discovered this weekend, it comes in a light and very easy to carry 5 Liter container which consists of a thick heavy duty bag of fine spirits within a protective corrugated cardboard box! This combination is virtually shock proof, and very resistant to punctures. You can throw it at douchebags, pick it up of of their knocked out bodies and keep quaffing with no problem.
Also no more destroyed cell phones (or in my case expensive camera gear) after one of the flimsy aluminum cans in your bags decides to spring a leak.
5L of wine is the equivelent of 6.66 bottles of traditional heavy, breakable, and let's face it expensive wine bottles. That should be more than enough to get one or even 1 and 1.33 people drunk over the course of a ride.
It's portable, safe, light, and damnit it's fun. I've replace all of my liquids with box wine, and I think you should too, join the Evolution!
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......i never thought of this.....good idea, cheap too
irma08.4.08 - 7:27 pm
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Bag-in-box beer exists too, though I have only seen 25L from Ankerbrau.
pavetheplanet08.4.08 - 7:36 pm
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Franz,
Can you email me Susie's cell #. I'm in Marblehead and wanted to talk to her about the bar she worked at here.
Sorry for the interuption. Please return to talking about PC's favorite type of wine.
stevo408.4.08 - 7:46 pm
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Have you never heard of Franzia?
That was my official drink of Upstate NY winters for 2 years!
kyber08.4.08 - 9:19 pm
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Oh of course I have, my mom used to drink it all the time. However I never really connected it's value as a portable drinking solution.
franz08.4.08 - 9:26 pm
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One drawback, too much FRANZ wine gives me a wicked headache the next day!
And the more I drink of it, the less I remember about the first statement.
Creative Thing08.4.08 - 9:34 pm
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Actually I felt pretty good the following days, I think I had at least 1.5 boxes over Friday and Saturday.
franz08.4.08 - 11:19 pm
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bike punks in boston are fueled by this shit.
HANDBONE08.5.08 - 12:13 pm
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kyber, seriously. when i was still going to syracuse they used to have boxed wine parties until someone puked in the laundry machine. so cheap, so gross, better than keystone.
tinycities08.5.08 - 12:16 pm
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I remember when they advertised the dick out of this tasty shit on TV.
Pouring from that plastic tap and being pimped out like it was something special.
I'll admit I'm a bit of a light-weight when it comes to th brew, but for some odd-reason, fine-wine tends to go down freely.
.........Waits for mob-tension to grow after light-weight admission....
bentstrider08.5.08 - 12:25 pm
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i call boxed wine placenta when its out of the box, its like hauling around your amniotic sac, except it gets you drunk, instead of nourishing you as a fetus
hartwick, youre a pussy08.5.08 - 12:38 pm
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get a camelback replacement hose and jam it over the spigot = win
stevestevesteve08.5.08 - 1:58 pm
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Where can I find this BOXED Beer? Unfortunately wine makes me ill.
the reverend dak08.5.08 - 2:08 pm
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good thinking Franz.. safe and fun.
if only I could consume that much wine at one time.
maybe I'll find someone to share a box with on the next ride.
adamthelizard08.5.08 - 3:16 pm
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MMMMM Tasty........ franz has already made a few whinos with this. Watch out you might end up like him.
stillline08.5.08 - 3:19 pm
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This Franz wine is for wussies!!!!
Take it from a professional, go with the Mad Dog!
Do ur homework!!
User108.5.08 - 3:28 pm
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MD2020 was the main reason i fell off the bike last time. fuck that shit
stillline08.5.08 - 3:30 pm
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Watch everyone be running around with boxes of Franz on the next ride. It will be hilarious. We should get their marketing department to fly out and do a photoshoot.
vladster08.5.08 - 4:17 pm
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vlad
are you coming to SFV CM tonight? We need your presence. We need your spirit.
stillline08.5.08 - 4:19 pm
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I have many fond memories from early childhood, courtesy of box wine. Seriously... When I was a kid, we used to play with those mylar wine bags all the time. My mom would bring home the empties from work, and my brother and I would inflate them to use as toys, weapons, whatever. They were a blast.
Also, speaking of blasts, our neighbor would occasionally entertain people at gatherings by filling up old wine bags with acetylene, attaching some dynamite fuse and then setting of the loudest explosions I've ever witnessed firsthand.
Rural Idaho FTW!
(my god, I never thought I'd be responsible for arranging those words in that fashion)
Anyway, the only boxed wine I've ever
drank has been stuff I got for 50 cents a liter in Spain. It was surprisingly not foul. How's the Franzia?
nathansnider08.5.08 - 4:28 pm
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@ stilline
Unfortunately I'm not, I'll be at work till 7 on the west side. I might hit up Taco Tuesdays afterwards. Actually, I have an embarassing admission - I've never been on a ride in the valley. I have no clue of what's a good way to get there. I'm thinking just ride up Sepulveda?
vladster08.5.08 - 4:36 pm
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@Graham Franzia tastes like trailer park trash? Ew. And for the record, we lived in an underground house like the hobbits in Lord of the Rings. If anything, we were hippie refugee trash.
nathansnider08.5.08 - 4:47 pm
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Every time I shared fluids on MR rides I ended up with some flu or another a couple days later.
Maybe you are immune. I'm sticking to individually apportioned containers.
marino08.5.08 - 5:03 pm
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nathansnider
08.5.08 - 7:47 pm
I want to be a part of it.
Graham08.5.08 - 5:13 pm
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I don't think I've ever tasted box wine before, give me some two buck chuck, thank you.
Graham08.5.08 - 5:14 pm
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I go from MR forums to Engadget and the first post I see there
talks about Franzia
WTF?
Is it really the next hipster thing????
Franzia the fixie of wines.
marino08.5.08 - 5:21 pm
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how about just filling up cammel packs with booze?
aksendz08.5.08 - 5:36 pm
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ephemerae08.5.08 - 9:24 pm
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Box wine provided us with another great time last night!
Coe08.6.08 - 12:17 pm
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Another great asset of box wine, no empty cans to deal with.
franz08.9.08 - 2:39 pm
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Damnit franz we almost had it. ralphs is weak.
stillline08.9.08 - 3:04 pm
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I'm going to attempt to find the Chardonnay 12% ABV for this evenings ride.
franz08.9.08 - 6:20 pm
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On the dice run yesterday I picked up a couple bottles of grolsh (how ever you spell it) and they are the perfect bike ride beer.If you need to you can just put the cap back on.You'll see me rocking the green bottle with the cool white cap for many rides to come.
blackout_blacklung08.10.08 - 6:27 am
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Carrying glass bottles is a bad idea.
Glass is heavy and can do this to you.
franz08.10.08 - 9:04 pm
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Unfortunately Brassknuckles awesome scar didn't show up for some reason.
STAY TUNED, I've been testing the long term effects of box wine use, I'll give you the results as soon as I can stop drinking the stuff.
franz08.11.08 - 4:01 pm
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