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A Scottish brewery has been called “irresponsible” after launching what it said was the UK’s strongest beer.
With an 18.2-percent alcohol content, a 330ml bottle of Tokyo, made by BrewDog, contained six units of alcohol — twice the recommended daily limit.
BrewDog uses jasmine, cranberries, malts and American hops, and is then fermented with a champagne yeast to make the high alcohol content.
They say the beer’s high quality should help tackle the country’s binge-drinking culture.
BrewDog founder James Watt said, “Mass-market, industrially-brewed lagers are so bland and tasteless that you are seduced into drinking a lot of them.
“We’ve been challenging people to drink less alcohol, and educating the palates of drinkers with progressive craft-brewed beers which have an amazing depth of flavor, body and character.
“The beers we make at BrewDog, including Tokyo, are providing a cure to binge beer-drinking.”
But the watchdog group Alcohol Focus Scotland said that idea is “deluded” and it is “irresponsible” to bring out a beer which is so strong at a time when Scotland is facing so much social harm.