Dutch students invent powdered alcohol

Dutch students have developed alcohol in the form of powder which they claim can be sold legally to minors.

Booz2Go is available in 20g packets that cost around 78p. When added to water it becomes a fizzy lime-coloured and lime-flavoured drink with an alcohol content of 3 per cent.

Harm van Elderen, 20, said: "We just looked what was the best for us, the nicest thing to make, and we thought this would be the best one to develop, it's all fresh, all new and it doesn't really exist in the world.

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

Project manager Martyn van Nieropsaid: "Because alcohol is not in a liquid form, there is no law, so we can sell it under the age of 16 and normally alcohol can't be sold under 16, but because it's in powder from, we can. That's a little bit of an issue in Holland now."

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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