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@SafariScribe: Hey there! Could you take a look at this draft? You did such a great job with the last one. --94.255.152.53 (talk) 22:38, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

@Significa liberdade: "This submission appears to be taken from https://www.perabar.com/homebrewing-product/." -- No, it's not. What makes you think that? I'm curious about your perspective—what led you to that conclusion? I'd love to hear your arguments and reasoning behind it. --94.255.152.53 (talk) 00:58, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi, 94.255.152.53! The first couple of sentences in the "Homebrewing" section were flagged using our copyright detection tool, Earwig. I have removed the sentences now and deleted historical revisions of this page that contain them. The page should now be free of copyrighted material, though you may want to revise the "Homebrewing" section.

@Significa liberdade: What has copyright to do with https://www.perabar.com/homebrewing-product/ ? I re-submitted the article for review. Feel free to review it again. --94.255.152.53 (talk) 01:37, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
94.255.152.53: Information on the Pera website it copyrighted, and words previously in the "Homebrewing" section matched the words on the Pera website exactly. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 01:40, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
@Significa liberdade: Which specific words are you referring to? I don’t notice anything that’s been removed. What exactly did you take out? I’m okay with your edits, but I assure you that I haven’t copied and pasted any text from any website. --94.255.152.53 (talk) 01:54, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

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Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol is a policy measure being considered for adoption in several countries, including Ireland, Switzerland, Wales, and Poland, pending evidence of its effectiveness. In Scotland, despite strong public and parliamentary support, the implementation of MUP has faced legal challenges from the spirits industry. The passage suggests that instead of opposing such health-oriented policies, the alcohol industry could adopt less harmful business models.[1]

United Kingdom

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The Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament, which introduces a statutory minimum price for alcohol, initially 50p per unit, as an element in the programme to counter alcohol problems.

Concerns from low-cost alcoholic beverages

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This is a list of alcoholic beverages that are legally available for sale and subject to alcohol tax.

Box wine

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Boxed wine (cask wine) is a wine sold in "bag-in-box" packaging. Traditionally, this consists of a cardboard box containing a wine filled plastic reservoir. The flow of the wine from the box is controlled by a valve.

Box wines utilize plastic bags instead of traditional glass bottles, significantly reducing production and shipping costs, which makes them a more affordable option for consumers.

Health concerns

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The introduction of cask wine in the late 1960s has had significant negative consequences. The Australian wine industry has benefited from favorable tax policies, which have led to a substantial increase in both domestic consumption and international exports. However, these developments have not been without drawbacks, particularly in terms of public health and social issues related to increased alcohol accessibility and consumption.[2]

Desi daru

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Desi daru (Hindi: देसी दारू), also known as country liquor or Indian-made Indian liquor (IMIL), is a category of liquor made in the countryside of the Indian subcontinent (as opposed to Indian-made foreign liquor). It is traditionally prepared by a procedure that has been passed down for centuries. Due to cheap prices, country liquor is the most popular alcoholic beverage among the impoverished people. It is fermented and distilled from molasses, a by-product of sugarcane.[3][4][5] Desi liquor is a broad term and it can include both legally and illegally made local alcohol. The term desi daru usually refers to legal alcohol while other types of country liquor (arrack and palm toddy) may be categorised as moonshine alcohol.[6]

Social issues

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Further information: Temperance movement in India

Country liquor, being the cheapest alcohol in India, is the mainstay alcoholic beverage for the rural population and urban poor. In rural areas, illicit country liquor has been blamed for domestic violence and poverty in the family. There have been several protests against country liquor shops/bars in villages.[7][8][9]

Adulteration
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As country liquor is cheaper than other spirits, there have been reports of mixing country liquor with Scotch/English whisky in many bars in India.[10]

If care is not taken in the distillation process and the proper equipment is not used, harmful impurities such as fusel alcohols, lead from plumbing solder, and methanol can be concentrated to toxic levels. Several deaths have been reported in India and Pakistan due to consumption of non-factory made toxic liquor.[11][12][13]

Flavored fortified wine

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Flavored fortified wine or tonic wine is inexpensive fortified wine that typically has an alcohol content between 13% and 20% alcohol by volume (ABV). They are made from various fruits (including grapes and citrus fruits) with added sugar, artificial flavor, and artificial color.

Concerns and media attention

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While overtaken somewhat in the low-end alcoholic drink market by sweetened malt beverages by the 1990s, the appeal of cheap fortified wines to the poor and homeless has often raised concerns:

Community groups in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland have urged makers of fortified wines such as Wild Irish Rose and E & J Gallo's Thunderbird and Night Train brands to pull their products from the shelves of liquor retailers in skid row areas. In Nashville, Tennessee, one liquor store owner told Nashville Business Journal reporter Julie Hinds that police warned him to stop selling his biggest selling product, Wild Irish Rose, because it encouraged homeless people to linger in the area.

— Janice Jorgensen, Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands: Consumable Products (1993), p. 492.

In 2005, the Seattle City Council asked the Washington State Liquor Control Board to prohibit the sale of certain alcohol products in an impoverished "Alcohol Impact Area". Among the products sought to be banned were over two dozen beers and six wines: Cisco, Gino's Premium Blend, MD 20/20, Night Train, Thunderbird, and Wild Irish Rose.[14] The Liquor Control Board approved these restrictions on 30 August 2006.[15] Two other cities in Washington, Tacoma and Spokane, also followed suit in instituting "Alcohol Impact Areas", after Seattle's example.[16][17]

Jabol

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Jabol (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjabɔl]) is a slang name for a kind of cheap Polish fruit wine.[18]

Health concerns

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The drink gained a reputation as an unsophisticated alcoholic beverage consumed by youth drinkers aiming at binge drinking.[19]

Jug wine

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"Jug wine" is a term in the United States for inexpensive table wine (or "bulk wine") typically bottled in a glass bottle or jug.

Health concerns

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An unexpected outcome has been the emergence of a significant market for low-cost, bulk wines. This development has had severe negative health consequences, especially within Indigenous Australian communities.[2] Alcoholism in rural Australia is a significant public health concern, with higher rates of harmful alcohol consumption and associated negative impacts compared to urban areas.

Liquor

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Not to be confused with Moonshine.

Liquor (/ˈlɪkər/ LIK-ər) or distilled beverage is an alcoholic drink produced by the distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation. Other terms for liquor include spirit, spirituous liquor or hard liquor. While the word liquor ordinarily refers to distilled alcoholic spirits rather than beverages produced by fermentation alone,[20] it can sometimes be used more broadly to refer to any alcoholic beverage (or even non-alcoholic products of distillation or various other liquids).[21]

Health concerns

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A survey of high school students in Alstahaug, Nordland county, revealed that adolescents consume alcohol at rates above the national average, with home-made liquor being prevalent and easily accessible, highlighting an urgent need for preventive measures.[22]

Malt liquor

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Malt liquor is a type of mass market beer with high alcohol content, most closely associated with North America. Legally, it often[where?] includes any alcoholic beverage with 5% or more alcohol by volume made with malted barley.[citation needed] In common usage, it refers to beers of high alcohol content, generally above 6%, which are made with ingredients and processes resembling those for American-style lagers.

While traditional premium lager is made primarily from barley, water, and hops, malt liquors tend to make much greater use of inexpensive adjuncts such as corn, rice, or dextrose. Use of these adjuncts, along with the addition of special enzymes, results in a higher percentage of alcohol than an average beer.

Advertising

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The core market for malt liquor brewers in the United States in recent decades has been the Black and Hispanic populations.[23] Brewers' use of target marketing in advertising malt liquor primarily to young, inner-city, black males has been controversial, because of the drink's higher alcohol content and the perceived vulnerability of the target audience. Brewers and advertisers have stated that they simply advertise to those who already buy their products. Critics have objected to the targeting of a segment of the population suffering disproportionately from alcohol-related disease and poor access to medical care.[24]

In order to highlight the potency of malt liquor, brand names have stressed powerful imagery such as Colt 45 (a reference to the .45 Colt handgun cartridge), Big Bear, and Power Master,[25] and used slogans such as "It's got more" or "The Real Power".[26] Power and sexual dominance have been common themes in their advertising.[25][27] Latter-20th-century television commercials for Schlitz Malt Liquor featured an 1800-lb. Brahma bull charging through walls.[28] Ads for Power Master, and the brand name itself, were eventually banned in the United States by regulations against advertising implying the strength of alcoholic beverages.[23][29][30][31]

Health concerns
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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has reported that African Americans suffer disproportionate rates of cirrhosis of the liver and other alcohol-related health problems. In light of such statistics, African-American community leaders and some health officials have concluded that targeting high-alcohol beverage ads at this segment of the population is unethical and socially irresponsible.[24][30] In 1991, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello criticized all alcoholic beverage companies for "unabashedly targeting teenagers" with "sexual imagery, cartoons, and rock and rap music" in television and print ads.[24]

Plonk

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Plonk is a term used primarily in Commonwealth English for generally cheap, low-quality wine.[32]

Health concerns

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In France, where the wine industry successfully transitioned from selling inexpensive "plonk" to quality wines produced in specified regions, resulting in increased profits and a reduction in deaths from alcoholic liver disease.[1]

Waragi

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Waragi (pronounced [ˈwaɾaɡi], also known as kasese) is a generic term in Uganda for domestic distilled beverages. Waragi is also given different names, depending on region of origin, the distillation process, or both. Waragi is known as a form of homemade Gin. The term "Waragi" is synonymous with locally distilled gin throughout Uganda. However, Uganda Waragi is a particular brand of industrially distilled gin produced by East African Breweries Limited. Other brands of distilled gin which are done by individuals at small scale are also available, but they are different from each other. The most common are: 1. "Kasese-Kasese" which was originally distilled in the district of Kasese in western Uganda and sold all over the country; 2. "Arege mogo" which first originated in Lira district in northern Uganda made and sold all over the country . These two brands "waragi" have different tastes and aromas. The distillation process in both cases produce highly distilled gin at the level produced industrially.

Health concerns

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For moonshine in other African countries also known to cause health issues, see Changaa § Health concerns, Kumi Kumi § Health concerns, and Lotoko § Health concerns.

In April 2010, 80 people died from multiple organ dysfunction syndrome after drinking waragi adulterated with a high amount of methanol over a three-week period in Kabale District.[33][34][35] Many of the deaths were blamed on the reluctance of people to openly admit their relatives had been drinking it, allowing the abuse of the substance to continue.[34][35] When revelations came about houses were searched, with around 120 jerrycans uncovered.[35]

The death toll of 80 was arrived at after 15 people died in the period between April 23 and the weekend before.[36] Deaths in Kamwenge went from five to nine after four people died on 21 April.[36] Two people were hospitalised at Kamwenge's Ntara Health Centre IV and five were hospitalised at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.[36]

BBC correspondent Joshua Mmali described it as "the largest number killed at one time for several years."[35]

See also

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References

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