Color-Changing, Bubblegum-Flavored Vodka

Once upon a time, we made things for children that mimicked adult items, like toy dishes and tools, so they could learn to be adults. Now the world is making things that are clearly for adults that enable us to pretend we are children, like Happy Meals, house paint, revamped cartoons, elaborate LEGO sets, and now vodka.

The British distiller Au Vodka, which already produces vodka in various candy and fruit flavors, has launched Au Vodka Bubblegum, which not only tastes like bubblegum, it changes color from blue to purple when you add a mixer. Dilute it enough and it becomes pink! Au Vodka is not the first to sell a color-changing liquor- Empress 1908 Gin, which went viral in the summer, does the same for gin lovers.

Both liquors contain extracts of the butterfly pea flower, a plant that is already pretty adult. The flower acts as a litmus test by changing color according to the acidity of its surroundings. Its original blue color will turn purple or pink when a citrus mixer such as lemonade or grapefruit juice is added. Mixing these cocktails in front of an audience is a pretty neat bar trick. However, no floor show will get me to drink bubblegum flavored vodka.

While Au Vodka is promoting their bubblegum liquor on Twitter, it is nowhere to be found on their website. They must have sold out their entire inventory. Maybe they'll make more.

(Image credit: Au Vodka)