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2007-06-07 04:24:34
Just add water - students invent alcohol powder
Wed Jun 6, 10:04 AM ET
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 ($1.35-$2).
Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored 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 flavoring, 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.