Drink Drive Scotland

A Zero limit is barely practicable. A small helping of trifle, a liqueur chocolate, Christmas cake, or even a fruit salad that has been around too long and fermented would be enough to register. Some mouthwashes also have alcohol in them....and I know you don't drink it but rinsing may be enough. 

Peter. 

I'm sure that if you ate your fermented fruit salad and then washed your mouth with one of the few remaining mouth washes that contain miniscule amounts of alcohol as you opened your car door and sucked on a chocolate liquor as you started your car and then got pulled as you drive of the drive you may just about register something on the breathalyzer, however when you were then taken to the police station for a blood test which I believe is the standard procedure I think you would be fine. However I would advice against the steak and ale pie as a main before your trifle!!!!

A Zero limit is barely practicable. A small helping of trifle, a liqueur chocolate, Christmas cake, or even a fruit salad that has been around too long and fermented would be enough to register. Some mouthwashes also have alcohol in them....and I know you don't drink it but rinsing may be enough. 

Peter. 

All very true......and your body produces a very small amount of alcohol naturally anyway......hence a zero limit unworkable.

As for the ale in a steak & ale pie......well there ain't no alcohol in it. ...just the flavour of the ale.

Alcohol boils at 72 degrees Celsius so anything cooked above that temperature has had the alcohol (literally) boiled off.

Zero drinking if driving, majority of my friends and colleagues have stuck to this.  Both of us have been known to have a glass of wine if out for a meal or a beer or a wine spritzer if either of us have been driving as we knew it was OK.    Since the law has come in neither of us will have anything to drink of we are driving.   If driving the next morning will restrict alcohol intake to ensure safe to drive wihtout worries.  I know there are people who still drink and drive and who do not worry and they get away with it.  we are happy with this however when my son came up from England he was unaware of the change in limit.  As i sit here on my second glass of wine on Friday night - no work on Saturday and no early start in the morning.    

Living North of the border = no alcohol when driving if you value your licence.

Advice - buy a decent breathalyser from Amazon for the often overlooked morning after issues when in Scotland!