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sandyRoe | 11:18 Thu 16th Jan 2025 | ChatterBank
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Although this is only of academic interest to me now, could interfering with one of the main pleasures of the common man be a step too far, the straw that broke the camels back?

https://news.sky.com/story/drinkflation-beer-makers-reduce-alcohol-content-to-pay-less-tax-12905447

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Nah, we'll just have a moan and change brands. I did.

Brew my own.  Not difficult with the right equipment that is reaily available thse days.

The way things a re going it all seems to point to and end game of no alcohol.

I'll leave it to others to speculate why this might be.

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Sowing the ground in preparation for some socitial change?

Prices might play a part in that too.  A pint in an ordinary pub here in Belfast is about £4.  In a fancier place, nearer £7.

Cheapest around is Wetherspoons where you can get a pint for about £2.50

Our parish council at Holyrood is determined to have os believe that minimum unit pricing is for the good of our health.

Maybe they'll focus next on the attrocious state of some of the houses their citizens are condemned to live in at put forward a plan to remedy damp and draughts.

Clowns.

You make your choice and pay the money. You can still buy 7% lager if you're prepared to pay the extra tax.

No different to biscuits really - digestives, no VAT; chocolate digestives, VAT

"The producer of Spitfire and Bishops Finger, Shepherd Neame, said: 'Consumers are increasingly choosing drinks with a lower alcohol content as part of a healthy lifestyle - we hope this will encourage more people to try our award-winning flagship beers.'"

That is the biggest load of cobblers I've heard for a while. If you're worried about a healthy lifestyle you do not swill down pints of beer at 5% plus. Reducing the content by 0.2% is hardly likely to get orders for casks of Bishops Finger flooding in from the drying out clinics and health farms.

...report dated June 2023.

Spitfire Amber Ale - wasn't that once advertised as being "downed all over Kent, just like the Luftwaffe"? 🤣

Yes mush. They made some remarks about the Fokkers as well. That ad appears about halfway down his lot:

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/spitfire-ads/9732313

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