Alcohol Review - Issue 36, November 19th 2021

This week:?MPs to call for minimum pricing in England; Lyre’s aims to become a unicorn; Sweary gin insults complainant; Cricketer recalls forced alcohol initiation; Alcohol pleasure study helps identify alternatives.

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News

MPs will call for minimum pricing in England after the government's response to record alcohol deaths was a tax cut and to extend the cheap cider loophole. New?research?found minimum pricing reduced off-trade alcohol purchases and encourage shifts to lower strength beers

Australian non-alcoholic spirit Lyre’s raised A$37m [US$27m], valuing it at A$500m. I now aims to be a "unicorn"

The UK alcohol marketing body allowed a gin to keep its sweary name and insult the person complaining

Cricketer Azeem Rafiq told MPs of being forced to drink alcohol as a teenager in an inquiry into racism

The UK will begin monitoring the alcohol intake of offenders if a probation officers think re-offending is likely when they drink

US United Airlines flights are serving spirits again having stopped early in the pandemic

"Those who drink alcohol in India don’t lie," said an official asked how covid vaccination status will be controlled

Opinion

A list of the subjective experiences of drinking wine shows there are alternatives to all of them

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