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All You Need is Water: Dutch Students Make Alcohol Powder
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

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AMSTERDAM - 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-gram 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.

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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 flavouring, 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.
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  • FEENIX
    They should market it in the Middle East [}:)]!
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  • Mr. Gunz
    Sweet!...where can I get some[}:)], I'm thinkin of puttin 5 or 6 in a glass and make a strong liqiuor
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  • fastcarsgofast
    I would buy it if they could do it with Sailor Jerry's Rum.
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  • Smokeeater 38
    I'll stick with my beers.
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  • zipperzap
    We used to call ours .. 'near beer![:D]
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  • 11BravoCrunchie
    quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
    We used to call ours .. 'near beer![:D]



    That's what we Wisconsinites call any and all non-alcoholic beer.
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  • sig232
    Our Meth youth will be snorting that up their noses in no time![;)]
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  • allen griggs
    How in hell can they dehydrate alcohol and not have it evaporate? It evaporates much quicker than water.
    This almost sounds like a joke.
    If true, I would like to try it once. Bet it doesn't taste very good.
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  • longsantafe
    My guess is it is an addition polymer, by binding a salt or sugar to the alcohol molicule they make a polymer chain like polyethenol that dissolves in water
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  • sig232
    quote:Originally posted by longsantafe
    My guess is it is an addition polymer, by binding a salt or sugar to the alcohol molicule they make a polymer chain like polyethenol that dissolves in water



    Sure, easy for you to say! Did you make up that line???
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  • longsantafe
    Mixolydin Aeolat is the chemical name, but it is german.
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  • MosinNagantDisciple
    So if you added less water than recommended would you end up with a more concentrated drink with a higher alcohol content?
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  • buschmaster
    yup!
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  • longsantafe
    did some quick reserch.
    this is from a german website [they talk funny]

    crystalline state.Hexamethylentetramin.


    Perhaps as addition, there is an old patent
    alcohol containing more powder
    of Mitchell W. and Seidel W. (gene Foods Corp)
    pat. No. US3795747
    In the Claim the authors write that this powder would be possibly suitable alcoholic beverages to manufacture.
    It acts thereby around Dextrin a propellant up to 30% of the EtOH takes up and "Touch dry" remains (that will cover itself with the alleged 30% indication).
    The patent comes from 1973 (run off??), so that unfortunately all on-line is not.

    (One can see free of charge e.g. http://ep.espacenet.com) of patents

    http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.chemieonline.de/forum/showthread.php?t=30758&highlight=alkohol+pulver&prev=/search?q=Mixolydin+Aeolat+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=G

    17,693. Lederer, L. July 28. Hexamethylenetetramine is prepared as a hard crystalline mass by evaporating a mixture of molecular weights of formaldehyde and ammonia, or ammonium carbonate, in a rarefied space at the temperature of a water bath. By recrystallizing the product from alcohol it is purified and obtained as shiny white crystals. Hexamethylenetetramine-chloral, -bromal, and -butyl-chloral compounds are produced by acting upon formaldehyde with ammonia or chloral, bromal, or butyl-chloral. By evaporating the mixture in a rarefied space, or by allowing it to stand, or by saturating it with a neutral salt, the condensation product is separated in a crystalline state.
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  • spryor
    Seems like it could be easily flavored, say, using jello type flavoring...?
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  • 11b6r
    Produced from formaldehyde and ammonia, huh? Sounds like the beer in VietNam. Stay tuned for the dehydrated water and the low salt brine. Will be on the Home Shopping Network along with the Inflatable Anchor, and the Felt Jumper Cables. [:p]
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