 Today we're talking about Bonn & Veve Spiked Seltzer Prickly Pear Edition and much more. Be there, njroot22.com here with another booze chat vlog. And today we're talking about the Bonn & Veve Spiked Seltzer Prickly Pear Edition. I mentioned this in a few videos ago, I don't know how many videos ago, but that I was going to buy a six pack of this Bonn & Veve Spiked Seltzer. And I noticed when I looked at all the different flavors, each one had different varying amounts of carbs. I think anywhere from one gram of carbs all the way up to I think two or three on some of them, the various flavors, for whatever reason. And I singled this one out and I had to have it special order at the liquor store because it was the lowest one I could find. I think there is one more that's one gram of carbs. And our objective is when we drink to have the lowest amount of carbs. That's why I stopped drinking wine because of the sulfites and all the impurities. And so far the two drinks that we are enjoying these days are vodka mixed with unsweetened seltzer as well as these spiked seltzers. And the current champ again is the Smirnoff brand. We like that the best. Overall it's grown on us even more in the last few months. It really does have the best taste. And right now I'm drinking the Bon and Viv. I don't even know if I'm saying it. Is it Bon and Viv? Is it Bone and I don't know. I have no idea how to say it. Now a little disclaimer here. I don't think a single person on planet earth drinks these seltzers the way I do. I water them down. They're already a pretty low alcohol drink compared to a glass of wine which is usually 13-14-15% alcohol. Seltzers in most beer in the 4-5-6% range. So you're already having a watered down drink comparing it to a mixed drink like vodka, tonic or whatever. So I am a little bit different. I water mine down in a quart glass here with ice that melts over the course of the drink. So instead of getting 4-1.5% alcohol, which these are, I'm starting off at 2-1.25% and the alcohol percentage goes down as I consume the drink. You know, go from 2-1.25% and as the ice melts it's 2%, 1.75% and the last few sips are under 2% alcohol. I drink that way for many reasons because A, number one reason I like to consume fluids. I consume a lot of fluid every day. Quarts of coffee, quarts of tea, quarts of water and quarts of booze. Watered down booze. I just like consuming fluids. Not everybody is as hydrated as I am. I just, I enjoy it. I guess that's what's kept me alive for so long. I guess all the toxins have plenty of freeway speed to get out of my body. Either that or I'm destroying my organs in some other way. Either way, I'm going way off base here. I wanted to review this seltzer to see how it compared with the standard. This Mironov is the standard. I'm freezing it. I don't know why. It's like spring, it's going to be 70 degrees this week and I'm wearing a down jacket. I'm like chilled to the bone. This happens to me sometimes because you, I guess when you lose body fat, you just, it takes time to adjust to your new insulation. But the prickly pear, I didn't like the other Bonn and Veem. I think there was one flavor in the, you have to check the video out in my channel. There was one flavor that I really liked a lot. One flavor that I really despise and a couple other flavors that were mediocre. And this one, I don't think it falls into the, I like it a lot. I like it a lot category. Again, because I mix it with some other kind of flavored seltzer. Today it's orange, sometimes it's black cherry. So my drinks are like Frankenstein of seltzers. I wish they actually would make a unflavored spiked seltzer. Like a plain one, because I add my own flavors anyway. Lemon juice and ginger. It's delicious. I can't, I don't want to drink it any other way. I drink this plain and something tastes, tastes weird to me. I mean, I liked it. It's okay. But there's one thing I wanted to talk about here. It's the, the type of alcohol. Let me read the ingredients to you. It's purified water. Cold fermented corn sugar. Now that bugs me because A, I don't like sugar. B, I'm not a big fan of corn, the whole corn industry. It doesn't say non GMO on it. So it's probably like some sort of nefarious corn. And that I'll probably never buy this again. The only time I'll ever buy this, if the liquor store is closing in five minutes and I want a seltzer and they don't have smear on it. That's the only time I'm going to buy this again. But they say here, it's gluten free, natural flavors. That's such a scam, natural flavors. Like no one questions that anymore. I don't think it's even illegal for them to say natural flavors. It doesn't say 100%, I don't know, I could go on and on. Natural flavors. One thing could be natural. Like 1% of it could be natural and that wouldn't be illegal to say on the cam. No sugar added and it's just right. 4% out, 4.5% alcohol. Also has natural prickly pear strawberry flavor. What does that mean? I don't know. And then it has sodium citrate, which I believe is the tartness. And then malted rice. So this to me, even though it's one gram of carbs, has a lot of ingredients on here that are carb based. I honestly to be, I don't know what malted rice is. And is that what gives it, why do they put it in? For what reason? I don't know. And looking at the Smirnoff can, it doesn't really tell you the ingredients. It doesn't tell you the ingredients on the box either. I guess you have to go to their website or look up their legal file somewhere to get the exact ingredients. But I've had tremendous success with the Smirnoff brand. So I can vouch for, I guess now, today until I find out something later on when it's too late. But yeah, one gram for both of these. So I'm a little bit concerned in terms of, like this one lists sodium at 25 milligrams per can and the Smirnoff does not mention sodium at all. So I really don't know. They're both grain based. The Smirnoff says, I removed gluten from grains containing gluten. Like I said, I'm only going to buy this when, it's five minutes before closing time and I want myself to. Luckily for me, you plan ahead. You always have two or three days or a week. A week of supply on hand. Never go below a week. It's like my dad always said, when treat your car like at a quarter tank or higher, like half a tank, even better, when you're at a quarter tank, treat that as empty. Like rush to the gas station. Never go below a quarter. So I always try to have a good supply of either, you know, have a bottle of vodka on hand, a decent two or three days worth of seltzer and spiked seltzer and lots of non-alcoholic seltzer. So I can't really say anything awesome about this. I can't remember what, how I felt the next day with these, but I just don't like even seeing the word corn anymore. So who knows, maybe a lot of, some vodka's are made from corn, potatoes, and you can go on and on and on and on and on and on about it. And then I probably lost all my readers. No one, no one's listening to what I have to say here. So I'm just saying it to myself. I rambled and that's it. Nothing to write home about. Have a nice week ahead or behind and ahead.