Should a beer be banned from being sold in bars, clubs and shops because of its label?

Governments shouldn't legislate a mans appetite. Banning something drives it into the hands of black markets, which dont care a bit for peoples health. People never learn we have seen it with alcohol prohibition during the early 20th century and know with illicit drugs, legalisation, and education is the only way to deal with these things. I dont hear the portman group complaining about 45% spirits.

Britain needs to accept reality - she is an alcoholic. This disease is everywhere in the UK. People think only the tramp sleeping on the park bench, drinking cider from his brown paper bag "decanter" is an alcoholic. In fact half your work colleagues may be alcoholics drinking huge amounts every single day. Now drying out clinics are full of middle class drinkers, the sort who didn't realise that a bottle of wine every night is alcohol, or not the same kind of alcohol found in White Lightning or Special Brew.

A beer of more than 18% alcohol volume is just simply irresponsible. The one someone else mentions of over 30%, well that is approaching the strength of most spirits.

Yes the government is right to act, in times when a 21 year old woman becomes the country's youngest ever liver transplant patient, purely because of alcohol abuse.

Perhaps there ought to be an enormous tax on alcohol, making beer at least £5 a pint, to help to fund the policing required because of all the crime committed by drunks, to fund the cleaning of the streets caused by drunks throwing their rubbish everywhere, and to pay for the hundreds of thousands of hospital beds and hours in A&E they need.

The Portman Group is a good idea in principle, but they're going over to Health and Safety standards of nannyism. Especially when you think that this beer is on very limited release. They should be concerning themselves on the wider issues involved. I was particularly annoyed when a spokesperson announced that while they can't control the sale, they can control the advertising. That person is a jumped up squirt if they think they can control that. If they came on here I would give them a Thumbs Down, and I don't do that very often.

The government have various rules about advertising for the general wellbeing of the public. For instance, beer and other adult targeted alcoholic drinks shouldn't be packaged in a manner that makes it attractive to children, encourages violent behaviour, or excessive consumption. The beer can be repackaged and then sold. It's just an oversight of the designer, nothing to do with the alcohol content.

Perhaps people should be allowed to make their own minds up about whether they drink it or not. This dreadful government are all too keen to stick their noses in where they don't belong. I'd like to ban all future Labour governments and the party itself. Oh and Gordon Brown can consider himself banned ... and those goatee beards, and climate change nazis ...the Milibands need completely banned from saying anything ... ok that'll do for now. Feel free to add to the list.

If you're going to drink excessively you'll do it anyway, regardless of what a label on a beer bottle says.

that's a pretty f**king good slogan! i'm gonna hunt some down. to the people who believe that a label will cause someone to drink....grow up. did you guys believe that people thought cigarettes were full of vitamins and anti-oxidants until the 'warning labels' started appearing on the packs? get a grip.

If Gordon Brown wants Britain to be the Sharia banking centre of Europe, then he's going to have to get a grip on alcohol, or those Abdul's that have their hands firmly up hes sorry groveling @rse ain't gonna like their simpering little new labour puppet very much are they.

No. The businesses should be able to sell whatever they want.

Besides, I really wanna be able to try this beer and especially the one at the bottom of the article that's 32% alc/vol!! It's called Tactical Nuclear Penguin.

You should move to the middle of nowhere Wisconsin where you can buy frosted mugs of Pabst for a buck all day long every day.