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FDA's Four Loko Move Makes Microbrewers Jittery

(Nov. 20) -- Experimental craft-beer maker Scott Newman-Bale has made some strange concoctions. Peanut-butter-and-jelly beer. Stout that tastes like s'mores. Next the Michigan microbrewer wants to invent a "spruce-tip pilsner," using fresh treetops. But first he has to ask a question that could ruin it all, one that's...

Four Loko Banned by Washington State Liquor Control Board

(Nov. 10) -- Next week, Washington state residents will no longer find "blackout in a can" beverage Four Loko on liquor store shelves. The infamous party drink responsible for the hospitalization of nine Central Washington University students at an Oct. 8 house party is being placed under emergency ban by the state's...

Four Loko Bans Rise, Along With Sales Figures

(Nov. 4) -- Four Loko, the "blackout in a can" beverage that's being blamed for a series of intoxication-related illnesses and hospitalizations across the country, is facing a growing clampdown on college campuses. But sales of the product -- made by beverage company Phusion Products -- are apparently on the rise. Several...

'Blackout in a Can' to Blame for Post-Party Ailments

(Oct. 25) -- Four Loko, an alcoholic beverage referred to as "blackout in a can," is the culprit behind several hospitalizations after students at a Central Washington University party overdid it on the potent elixir. The Oct. 8 house party, which counted around 50 youth -- many of them underage -- ended with nine...