I'm sorry, i'm not sure what the law in the netherlands is but surely the sale of alcohol (liquid or not) to people under the age limit is illegal? Why would they stipulate what form it was in? This is like saying roll-up's, ie. buying the tobacco and paper is legal but the fully pre-formed cigarrettes is not...

I agree with Blacksheep, there probably is a technicality in the tax and legal system which defines alcohol as a liquid. I'm sure the government would quickly amend the laws not to protect minors so much as to ensure taxes continued to be collected.

I remember in Japan that beer was defined legally by its ingredients and brewing process. A company introduced something that used different ingredients, but resulted in a product that tasted like beer with the same alcohol content. It was initially cheaper at stores because it fell outside of tax definition of beer and the laws needed to catch up.

Holy sh*t, that is awesome!!! ....Well until I see my first "smacked out" alcoholic anyway...umm, I wonder if you can cook it with water and baking soda to make a rock? Gadzooks man! Career change $$$$!!! Black Caeser status here I come!!!

Well... at least this should give me some interesting DAWN cases to read... Won't take long before these idiots start snorting it with their cocaine/heroin.

If the laws specify alcoholic beverages, then this would be a loophole. However, their markets will quickly dry up once this story hits the media hysteria machine and legislatures roll out some ham-fisted bill to fix the loophole while also giving themselves raises and setting kittens on fire.

Well, it might make Coors more palatable.

3% is 3%. Is this by volume? Isn't 12% alcoh. by volume the general average for beer? 3% would be a substantial increase on this. Sure, go pour it in your grain alcohol and its like throwing money at Bill Gates, but drop that doozy in your beer and it makes you need less beer! I bet this can be sold as a caloric dietary aid for those wanting to get sloppy without getting their bellies sloppy.

So many applications for this. Marinade and dry rub for meat, sleep-inducer alternative to nyquil, drink additive. Just brilliant. I need to get to my basement and begin work with my beginner's chemistry set and work all this out and make my own dried beer.

I'm not sure it's a great idea to light up powdered alcohol. I'm just sayin'.

Minnesota doesn't sell real beer? I knew there was something wrong with that state.

Ye put a bit in yer watarrrr. Makes it easiarrr on the humarrrrs.

Does snorting something have some biological benefit over just eating it?

Honestly, I dont know. I'm an innocent.

I never understood why people snort things, unless they are an anteater or an elephant after peanuts.. in which case.. they are eating.

Speaking of different ways to get $#it-faced: in Russia, long-distance truckers are giving themselves vodka enemas so as to get inhebriated without failing to pass a breathalyzer test if stopped by the police. Alcohol absorbs right into the bloodstream through the lower intestines walls, and it takes much less of it to achieve the woozy BAC levels than when consumed orally.

Just felt like mentioning it.

I was just guessing about this. I don't actively (or soberly) read the sides of by beer cans for alcohol content. This only makes the whole 3% even more impressive, like making a beer almost double its alcohol content.

Hmm, this might complicate the testing procedure. which might go something like this....

Officer: "Ok sir, very good, now please fart in the tube." (squeak of flatuation) "Sir, that wasn't good enough, we'll need you to fart again."

I'm more surprised that Russian police care about DUIs.....

Apparently they have machines that vaporize the booze so you can inhale it and get cocked. Connecticut outlawed them last October, and I never even knew they existed.