GTA 6 beers Pißwasser and Patriot appear in US database

Pißwasser, Grand Theft Auto's long-running parody beer, may be about to exist in real life. Labels for three GTA-branded beers have been approved in the US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) database, Dexerto reported on October 20. The filings come from Tripping Animals Brewing, a craft brewery in Doral, just outside Miami. The timing points to a tie-in with GTA 6's November 19 launch.

There is one big caveat. Neither Rockstar Games nor Tripping Animals has announced a collaboration, so for now this is a regulatory paper trail, not a product announcement.

What the filings show

The three labels are Pißwasser, Patriot and a new one called No Mames Vice City. According to Dexerto, the Vice City lager is 6% ABV. Its label shows a dog in sunglasses wearing a gold Vice City chain in front of a pink and purple sunset, with GTA VI branding on it. PC Gamer looked up the records itself and says No Mames Vice City appears to be a rebranded version of the brewery's existing No Mames lager. Its database search lists Patriot as a 4.2% ABV American lager and Pißwasser as a 4.2% ABV lager, labelled as a pilsner.

The two outlets don't agree on every detail:

• Approval dates: Dexerto says Pißwasser was approved on September 29, No Mames Vice City on October 9 and Patriot on October 15. PC Gamer lists No Mames Vice City on October 9, with Pißwasser and Patriot both on October 15.
• Who found it: Dexerto credits fan site iGrandTheftAuto. PC Gamer credits GTAVice.net.

Both agree that the three labels are approved and that Tripping Animals is the applicant.

Why these beers fit

Longtime players will know Pißwasser and Patriot as two of the series' best-known fake brands. Patriot also has a direct GTA 6 link: Jason buys a pack of it in the game's second trailer. PC Gamer called the real-world version "all but certainly real" because the labels are in the database and Rockstar has been spending heavily on promotion in Florida.

That promotion has been hard to miss. Dexerto reports that Rockstar is spending around $4 million to turn parts of Miami into Vice City. That push has included supercars, Burger Shot and fake brand ads around the city. Rockstar has also teamed up with the Miami Heat on a clothing line that includes a real version of Vice City's 100% completion T-shirt (more on that here). In September it revealed a $400 Collector's Edition with Oakley sunglasses and a Macca the Gator statue. A beer brewed a few miles from downtown Miami fits right in with all of that.

What is still unknown

Nobody has said what the beers will cost, when they will go on sale or where they will be sold. Fans outside Florida may be out of luck: according to PC Gamer, the brewery's website suggests its beers are only distributed in and around Miami. PC Gamer expects the cans to show up by launch day, but that is the outlet's guess, not something Rockstar or the brewery has said.

A label approval means a product has cleared one regulatory step. It doesn't mean a release has been scheduled. Until Rockstar or Tripping Animals says something publicly, real Pißwasser is likely but not confirmed. We'll update this story if either company announces it before GTA 6 arrives on November 19.