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Students Invent Powdered
Alcoholic Drink Mix
Reuters
AMSTERDAM (June 6) - Dutch students have invented
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, or $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.
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.
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