Taxes on high-strength beers and lagers will increase from autumn 2011, it has been announced, although this is hardly news as it does every year anyway.
The additional duty will be imposed on those with a strength above 7.5% alcohol, including Tennent’s Super* and Carlsberg Special Brew*, but duty on low-alcohol beers with a strength of 2.8%** or less will be reduced.
*These two examples of "high-strength beers" are always trotted out- are there actually any others?
**Does anyone drink these flavoured waters anyway? Let the Australians and Americans keep their beers- we don't want them.
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