Word: buckfast
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...drink. They also say that the minimum unit price will push up the price of Scotland's national tipple, whisky, which has an alcohol content of 40% or above, but could potentially even reduce the price of the drinks favored by binge-drinking youngsters, so-called alco-pops and Buckfast, a caffeine-infused "tonic" wine made by Benedictine monks in southwestern England...
...Buckfast - also known in Scotland as "Buckie," "Beat the Wife," "Wreck the Hoose Juice" and "A bottle of [expletive] ya lookin' at" (see earlier description of a Glasgow kiss) - has an alcohol content of 15%. The survey of young offenders found that of those who could remember what they'd been drinking before committing the crime that put them behind bars, 43.4% answered Buckfast. Indeed, the beverage is so frequently associated with disorder that there have been calls to ban it. But opponents of such an idea say the only effective way to tackle Scotland's alcohol problem...
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