It’s bottled to look like a soft drink. You probably wouldn’t know it was alcohol unless you searched the label.
I know. I looked up an image of it online and it says “Malt Beverage” on it. But I’ve known for years that it was an alcoholic beverage. Anything that’s ‘hard’ is, hard sauce, hard lemonade, hard cider. I’m just amazed that a professor didn’t know that (and I truly think it was an honest mistake on his part).
It is bottled in a beer bottle.
I believe that Ratte had no clue it was an alcoholic beverage, but it is not deceptively packaged.
I dunno . . . I think one would have to be pretty dense not to realize that a drink called "Mike's Hard Lemonade" is an alcoholic beverage.
To me, it appears bottled similar to beer, not soda. There must have been signs there somewhere saying over 21 only, no? And if I was unfamiliar with the brand, I would certainly read the label. So many beverages these days contain high amounts of caffeine or other ingredients I would not want to consume. The father should have known exactly what he was giving his child. He is smart enough to read a label.
That's what surprises me a little--hard cider is very popular here in Michigan. Every other town has a cider mill here, and nearly every mill sells hard and "soft" cider. I find it odd that a U of M prof didn't do a double take at the label.
I've known the difference between hard and soft cider since I was a kid, because my family had an apple press and made our own of both varieties. I ahd never heard of hard lemonade until Mike's came out, though. I immediately assumed it was alcoholic because it was labelled "hard."