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Ginned Up: Canada Recalls Bottles Of Bombay Sapphire For Being Extra-Boozy

Thousands of bottles of Bombay Sapphire gin in Canada were not properly diluted, leaving them with nearly double the intended alcohol content by volume — 77 percent, or 154 proof.
Bombay Sapphire is displayed at a benefit in New York last year. These bottles were presumably properly diluted — unlike the accidentally overproof London Dry Gin that is being recalled in Canada.

Bacardi Canada has recalled thousands of bottles of Bombay Sapphire gin after an error in the bottling process left the liquor nearly twice as potent as it was supposed to be.

The London Dry Gin was labeled as

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