Low-alcohol beer tried
Wayne Smith, the All Black and Canterbury rugby five-eighths, “blows the bag” after quaffing several glasses of Special Draught, a new low-alcohol beer launched in Christchurch yesterday by Dominion Breweries.
As predicted, the breathanalyser showed him to be under the legal drink-driv-ing limit. Special Draught is the latest of a series of lowalcohol beers produced in New Zealand in recent years. None of the previous brews was a success story.
At 2 per cent, D.B.’s Special Draught has an alcohol content half that of regular-strength beers. It will be priced the same as ordinary beers. D.B. believes that the average male should be able to have at least three quart bottles or two jugs of Special Draught without exceeding the legal drinkdriving limit.
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