I think "Colt 45" is close to what I found. It was called something like a "malt beverage" so it didn't even meet the legal definition of beer.
>> Boones Farm
I think it's 50-50 whether it would repel them attract them! Drown them, yes, once they fell in.
P.S. I cut the bottoms off small, clear plastic soda bottles to use as slug-drowning saucers. They blend visually into the soil, especially once some algae is growing on them. I don't worry about pushing them down into the soil - slugs seem able and willing to climb up and in.
I think it's the "yeasty" smell that attracts them, as if they expect to find rotting vegetation once they dive in. Usually I would expect beer to be yeastier than wine, but "things" like Boone's Farm synthehol might be so sweet that yeast falling into the saucer would go to work.
If there is too much alcohol, the yeast can't grow and metabolize, so "fortified" malt beverage or pseudo-wine might not be as good as weaker stuff.
Maybe shreds of old lettuce leaves floating on the surface would be an attractant, since slugs eat rotting vegetation as well as our favorite seedlings.
maybe little paper parasols would help?
