I mean, I started on the cheapest vodka and orange juice. It seems like this would be convenient, but also way more expensive than just mixing it yourself.
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GIGO.
It’s not that the alcoholic version of Sunny Delite exists which is the issue here; it’s that SunnyD was gross a/f - low quality, imitation fruit-flavored beverage.
NOT “JUICE.”
As someone else already mentioned upthread, it is hard to imagine that this product will be made with anything but the cheapest kind of alcohol.
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From 2019.
Because White Claw is brewed like beer, it’s taxed like beer, which is important because beer is taxed in the U.S. at a much lower rate than spirits. If you made a product similar to White Claw by mixing vodka with seltzer and putting it in a can, a six-pack would be subject to almost $2 in additional taxes when sold in New York City.
Because of this tax quirk, beverage companies have long sought ways to make flavored cocktail-like beverages for the U.S. market by brewing instead of distilling. Zima, Smirnoff Ice, and Mike’s Hard Lemonade are all “malternative” beverages, brewed from grain, like beer. A problem with malternatives has been the need to find ways to mask the beer-like flavor that results from brewing. To that end, these drinks have added sugar and strong citrus flavors, which a lot of consumers like. But they don’t serve as a replacement for a vodka soda.
The key advancement with White Claw and its competitors in the “spiked seltzer” market is the use of sugar base for fermentation, which leads to a more neutral flavor than you can get by fermenting barley or other grains. This makes it possible to mix a palatable beverage with little or no added sugar and only subtle flavorings. Unflavored White Claw contains no sugar (all the sugar in the base is converted to alcohol during fermentation) while flavored versions contain just a small amount of sugar: two grams per can.
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You forgot the vegetable oil, added for the unique mouthfeel. 
Carlisle was the test market in the UK, we got all kinds of awful shit sold to us and most of it got rejected at that early stage. SunnyD managed to get through somehow.
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When I was a kid, my mom would mix reconstituted frozen concentrates of lemonade and grape juice. Dad called it Mad Dog.
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Which, I can tell you from college experience, we found undrinkable.
TBH we never found any way to make grain alcohol drinkable.
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They should just steer into the skid and call it a tequila sundown.
4 oz Sunny D
2 oz Montezuma Silver
Garnish with dead hopes on a skewer
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probably the best porn flick Hard Tang ever starred in
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personally, i prefer some Tenacious D when feeling depressed.
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Holy hell, both ends of that sentence are impressive. For opposite reasons. Huge congrats on the good part!
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The best way to make it drinkable I’ve found is to turn it into limoncello 
Of course the time and patience involved make it a bit out of the range of college party juice…
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I bet it’s cheaper to just buy SunnyD and your own vodka… and if i still consumed alcohol it’d be a trip down memory lane.
BTW the secret to grain alcohol mixed with anything or other youthful concoctions, is straws. Take care of an evening’s drinking in just a few seconds with StrawTM* and never taste a thing
*This is TERRIBLE advice, I can’t stress that enough
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Reason 437 why I don’t drink anymore.
I was at the final game of the 1984 World Series in Detroit, we were drinking some sort of Polish grain alcohol, it might have been Spirytus but I can’t remember.
We were drinking it mixed with lemonade and beer, sounds bad but it is/was tasty.
I fell off the roof of a city bus and broke my ankle 3 weeks before our wedding and then drove myself to the hospital working the clutch with the busted ankle.
Surprisingly she still married me, but she was pregnant and we loved each other. We’re still married.
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I choked on my coffee and cackled at “steer into the skid” as I read that recipe.
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You need to just dilute it with water down to vodka strength, and then use it like vodka.
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Libby’s is missing out on the action too.
‘member Libby’s Libby’s Libby’s
Now it’s
boozy boozy boozy
You will like it like it like it
Makes you woozy woozy woozy
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I think that was our problem. We were trying to dilute it with vodka.
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I remember Sunny D had cottonseed oil. A quick review of labels on google and I see wildly varying ingredients lists, some without oil. Probably regional and historical differences.
I’ll just leave this here…
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I assume you mean Skid Row.
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