Independent Scottish brewer Brewdog has come under fire from alcohol campaigners after launching an 18.2% alcohol content beer.
Tokyo*, dubbed “the UK’s strongest beer” by Brewdog, contains six units of alcohol per 330ml bottle. Campaigners blasted the move, pointing out that one bottle of Tokyo* contains twice the recommended daily alcohol limit.
"This company is completely deluded if they think that an 18.2% abv beer will help solve Scotland's alcohol problems," Alcohol Focus Scotland chief executive Jack Law told the BBC.
"It is utterly irresponsible to bring out a beer which is so strong at a time when Scotland is facing unprecedented levels of alcohol-related health and social harm.”
But Brewdog co-founder James Watt insisted the beer would help tackle binge drinking.
"Mass-market, industrially-brewed lagers are so bland and tasteless that you are seduced into drinking a lot of them,” he said. "The beers we make at BrewDog, including Tokyo*, are providing a cure to binge beer-drinking."
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