Alcohol powder

Alcohol powder, also called dry alcohol, is a powder that makes an alcoholic drink, when mixed with water. In recent years, some alcohol powder products have come onto the market, but without achieving widespread. The legal recourse of alcohol powder is not yet clear. In Germany especially criticized the fact that the powder with alcohol liquor tax, a special tax on alcopops and the beverage deposit is bypassed, and that young people in particular are strongly vulnerable to abuses.

Since 1969 there should be patents relating to similar methods. 2005 Stiftung Warentest tested the German product Subyou. In June 2007, Dutch students announced that they have developed a powder called Booz2go alcohol, dissolved in water yielding a drink with lime flavor and color, and an alcohol content of three percent. Both Jost Henner Nies, the maker of Subyou, as well as the Dutch student give young people as a target group. So Harm van Elderen said in an interview with Reuters: "We are aimed at young people. They're interested because you can compare it [the alcohol powder ] with Bacardi - mixed drinks. "

The food chemist Udo Pollmer by the European Institute for Food and Nutritional Sciences in Munich has declared alcohol can be included in cyclodextrins. These cyclodextrins could save up to 60 percent of their own weight of alcohol and make it as a powder manageable.

Legal restrictions on the sale or delivery of alcoholic beverages generally apply only for liquids. In most countries, powder- based alcohol could therefore even be sold to young people and would not be affected by alcohol taxes such as the German tax on spirits. In the U.S., alcohol powder is previously used as a flavoring for puddings and ice cream. However, a U.S. manufacturer is preparing a range of alcohol beverage powder which is subject to the usual alcohol laws.