Powdered Booze

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

I can already imagine people doing lines of the stuff.

Dutch Students Develop Powdered Alcohol

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.

The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that cost 1-1.5 euros (70 pence-1 pound).

Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-coloured and -flavoured drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.

"We are aiming for the youth market. They are really more into it because you can compare it with Bacardi-mixed drinks," 20-year-old Harm van Elderen told Reuters.

Van Elderen and four classmates at Helicon Vocational Institute, about an hour's drive from Amsterdam, came up with the idea as part of their final-year project.

"Because the alcohol is not in liquid form, we can sell it to people below 16," said project member Martyn van Nierop.

The legal age for drinking alcohol and smoking is 16 in the Netherlands.

In Germany, alcopops -- sweet drinks containing alcohol and in powder form -- caused quite a stir when launched on to the market. Alcohol powder, classified as a flavouring, was sold in the United States three years ago.

The students said companies interested in making the product commercially could avoid taxes because the alcohol was in powder form. A number of companies are interested, they said.

[Davey Boy 2.0]

that'd bring snoots to a whole new level

[bradm]

Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-coloured and -flavoured drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.

"We are aiming for the youth market. They are really more into it because you can compare it with Bacardi-mixed drinks," 20-year-old Harm van Elderen told Reuters.

So what if you mixed four or five packets at once with a one-packet serving of water?

Aloha,

Brad

Edited June 7, 2007 by Guest

[Jared]

you'd get realy drunk?

[Jared]

or what if you used vodka instead of water

[boiler]

When is there ipo coming out? I'm investing.

[boiler]

oops ignore.

Edited June 7, 2007 by Guest

[Alexis]

mixing powder AND alcohol isn't a good idea. learned that one when i made tang+vodka screwdrivers in highschool.

[Jared]

i've made those, never had a problum

[SmoothedShredder]

I think Davey Boy has a new quote to put in his Hall of Fame.

[larry_llama]

The only reason there are no taxes or age restrictions on this stuff is because it's new. Do these guys think that the gov't(s) will never realize that this stuff exists and is essentially the same as alcohol? They'll figure out a way to get their hands on a good percentage of the sale of this stuff pretty quickly if the market for it blows up.

Anyway, aside form all that it breathes new life into the old game of sneaking booze into bars!