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Actually, in the UK, it is illegal to serve pre-mixed caffeine and alcohol, but it's rarely enforced. This is why many bars will pour the shot in a highball, an
by madaxe_again 11y ago
Actually, in the UK, it is illegal to serve pre-mixed caffeine and alcohol, but it's rarely enforced. This is why many bars will pour the shot in a highball, and hand you a can of red bull, so what you then do is your responsibility, not theirs.
- Symbiote 11y agoAre you sure? I can't find anything online that supports that. Many bars serve other drinks (vodka and orange, gin and tonic, etc) unmixed, so you can mix it to taste. Buckfast is still sold, and that contains caffeine. Kahlúa too.
- madaxe_again 11y agoAh, think you're right - this might just be Scotland where it's actually the law, but was certainly the common practice when I was working bars up north.
- arethuza 11y agoThere were discussions here about legislating against alcoholic drinks with caffeine levels above a certain level but I don't think anything actually became law: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164507 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164507
- cafard 11y agoHow odd. I've never had the urge to drink Red Bull or Jagermeister, separately or together. But Irish Coffee has been around for ages. The people I would see drinking it always seemed to manage to walk out of the bar under their own power,
- stordoff 11y agoI suspect you are right that this is only the law in Scotland. At a fairly respectable bar in Cambridge, I've set up 20-drink long "Jagertrains" [1] with the Bar Manager on more than one occasion, and he never mentioned that it was illegal to do so. [1] https://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-07-2012/ZdwGP4.gif https://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-07-2012/ZdwGP4.gif