The US state of Maine has banned the sale of our beloved Fentimans lemonade to anyone under 21 because it contains 0.5% alcohol. Ludicrous. You would need drink 28 bottles of the stuff to consume the same amount as a typical pint of beer. Get the ruling changed! You can read full story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.phpstoryId=114294218 It all started at a high school in Portland, Maine, when a student consumed half a bottle of Fentimans Victorian Lemonade, then looked at the label and discovered it contained small amounts of alcohol, listed as less than 0.5 percent. By contrast, a typical American beer usually contains about 5 percent alcohol. Not wanting to get in trouble, he showed it to school administrators, who called police. Police referred the matter to state officials... Anti-alcohol groups got involved, sending out warnings about the potential perils of the highbrow brew. On Thursday, the Maine attorney general's office said it has determined that, in Maine, at least, people have to be 21 to buy the product... "We see it as slightly absurd," said Tiffany McKirdy, operations director at Fentimans, a specialty brewer in northern England. "It looks to us like utter hysteria, the fact that the principal contacted the police and the substance abuse officials got involved "We do occasionally get inquiries about the alcohol content, and we are concerned about underage drinking, but it is legally classified as a soft drink," she said. A person would need to drink about 28 bottles of the lemonade to consume the amount of alcohol found in a typical pint of beer, McKirdy said.