To celebrate 30 year anniversary of the record cold temperatures measured at Charlotte Pass, NSW, Australia back on June 29th, 1994, Burton Snowboards has collaborated with Australian craft brewery Pirate Life Brewing to create a blue raspberry alcoholic lemonade that will be available at “in all good bars around the resorts.”
Temperatures dropped to -23 degrees Celsius on that historic day (-9.4 Fahrenheit) providing inspiration to the canned boozey lemonade called Minus 23. The new concoction has an ABV of 4.6% so enjoy responsibly:
June 29th, 1994 – a date cemented into Australian meteorological folklore. The bureau was rattled, so were the bones of Charlotte Pass locals, as temperatures plummeted to minus 23 degrees Celsius – our nation’s coldest day on record.
Coincidence, maybe, that 94’s spine-chilling winter also heralded snowboarding’s ‘arrival’ down under. Yep, not only was it recognised as an official discipline that year, Aussie resorts began rolling out parks and half-pipes in support.
As riders of the time began to shape snowboarding as we know it today, Burton Snowboards were there, front and centre, and we’ll be toasting to that golden era for years to come.
This limited-edition beverage – an appropriately nostalgic blue raspberry lemonade – tilts a cap to snowboarding’s glory days and is best served straight from the cooler. Or, if temperatures rival Charlotte Pass ’94, right from the doorstep.
