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During the "debate" about headshops and their products I heard one argument that was quite striking to me and that was that there's no information about what are actually in the products.

RTE had a show on it there at the weekend and they interviewed a couple in a pub who made the same point. They pinted to the beers on their table and said that "you know what's in them" and mentioned how with these headshop products there's no list of ingredients.


Cue me screaming at the telly looking at these two people drinking some yellow pissy looking stuff inside two Heineken branded glasses! There's no ingredients list on Heino cans - last I checked - and of course no list on any similar macrobeers lest not our beloved Guinness. There's also of course the many many chemicals they don't tell us about.

So am I off my rocker or is there a genuine issue here ie. no list of ingredients/chemicals on macro beers?

There's no obligation to list ingredients on alcoholic drinks in Ireland, so the big producers don't. It's a disgrace, IMO.

On the other hand, no-one's forcing you to drink any of it: if you don't like the idea of not knowing what's in there, just don't touch it.

"TheBeerNut":37joveed wrote: There's no obligation to list ingredients on alcoholic drinks in Ireland, so the big producers don't. It's a disgrace, IMO.

On the other hand, no-one's forcing you to drink any of it: if you don't like the idea of not knowing what's in there, just don't touch it.[/quote:37joveed]

I know they don't have to and I know no-one is forcing me to drink yellow pissy fizz but there's also no-one forcing anyone to buy the headshop stuff. Maybe I should've called Joe Duffy about this.

EoinMag[/url:32cb3h2n] made some good points about this in the 'what can we do to curb binge drinking' thread.

This site seems to be full of libertarian nutjobs. Why would a site about producing your own alcohol attract/create people with such a lack of faith in governments desire to protect us from ourselves?

1) I'm not a nutjob
2) I support the de-criminalisation of drugs and oppose the populist Daily Mail-style run on the legaller shops
3) I think the macros should publish what's in their products - Marks and Spencer do, they even list caramel in their whisky. I've seen full ingredients on other micros maybe not always Irish though
4) I don't brew my own.

1)I was attempting to be self depricating
2)I support making hallucinogens mandatory. Not my most popular opinion
3) Beer and sandwiches do not have to list there ingredients. I have no idea why they don't.
4) The site has a higher percentage of brewers than a random sample of the population.