Shields cashed in on the success and sold the brand to Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) in 2016, for an undisclosed fee. Three years later, the drinks conglomerate enacted a complete rebrand and relaunched the beverage as Bon & Viv Spiked Seltzer.

Also known as spiked seltzer, alcoholic seltzer, or hard sparkling water, hard seltzer is carbonated water combined with alcohol and fruit flavoring. Depending on the hard seltzer brand, these fruit flavors can come from real fruit juice or artificial flavoring.

The beverage company still produces Bon & Viv and Natty Light Hard Seltzer, but like Cacti, ABI is allowing them to take a back-burner role to other hard seltzer brands in the company's portfolio.

4.5% alc/vol. Grapefruit/Mango/Cranberry: Purified Water, Cold-Fermented Corn Syrup, Natural Flavors, Sodium Citrate, Malted Rice.

Nick Shields David white came up with the idea for alcoholic water in 1996 when he came up with the idea for a project. The more modern renditions of Hard seltzers started with Nick Shields developing the 'Spiked Seltzer' branding style, in Westport, Connecticut, brewing the first commercial batches in November 2013.

* Actual product may differ from image. Description: This refreshing, purified seltzer has only 9 grams of sugar, natural fruit flavors, and clocks in at 4.5 % alcohol.

The addition of carbon dioxide gives a can of seltzer its distinctive bubbles and fizz. Thus, hard seltzer is alcoholic soda water. Most hard seltzers on the market today are between 4% and 5% alcohol by volume (ABV), though some have a higher ABV.

Both beer and hard seltzer are brewed and fermented from a sugar source that when paired with yeast creates alcohol. This process means hard seltzer somewhat surprisingly falls into the beer category as a “flavored malt beverage,” rather than into a pre-mix category.

SpikedSeltzer was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev on Oct 9, 2016 .

Travis Scott's spiked seltzer Cacti has been discontinued in the wake of last month's deadly Astroworld festival disaster. Anheuser-Busch announced on Friday that the drink line was being discontinued weeks after the tragedy in Houston saw 10 people killed in a crowd surge, including a 9-year-old boy.

This process means hard seltzer somewhat surprisingly falls into the beer category as a “flavored malt beverage,” rather than into a pre-mix category. However, hard seltzer is made from fermenting cane sugar or sugar with water, whereas beer uses malted grains as the primary source of sugar.

While alcoholic content differs between brands, hard seltzer is usually similar to beer at 4-6% alcohol. A note of warning though, it's easy to drink more alcohol than you intended to with hard seltzers as they taste like fizzy sugar water and aren't as filling as beer or other drinks.

The alcohol used varies from brand to brand, but generally they are clean-tasting spirits derived from sugar, malt and fruit. However, the quality of spirit used can vary considerably between brands.

PERCEIVED AS HEALTHIER Hard seltzer typically contains around 5% alcohol content by volume and is lower in calories than most comparable alcoholic drinks. It's also gluten free and low in sugar, giving off a healthier impression to consumers.

Rum and brandy have different primary ingredients. Rum is a type of liquor that is made after fermenting and distilling sugarcane juice, therefore it has sugarcane as the primary ingredient. In contrast, brandy is a type of distilled wine that is produced by fermenting different fruit mashes.

Liqueurs are basically sweetened and diluted forms of liquor. Typically, liqueurs have an alcohol content of around 15 percent (compared to 40 percent in liqueurs), but can be as high as 55 percent.