A corporate lawyer who was caught four times over the drink-drive limit in her Range Rover has blamed her breath-alcohol count on a friend's home-made Kombucha tea.
Although it tasted 'disgusting', 41-year-old Louise Taylor from Sandbach, Cheshire, said she had been told it was good for gut health.
'I didn't believe it was alcoholic,' she told Llandudno magistrates' court in North Wales, saying her friend Angela Morrison brewed it using yeast and mushrooms.
She admitted driving her car on the A55 dual carriageway with a breath-alcohol count of 135. The legal limit is 35.
Defence lawyer Ashley Barnes said it appeared the wrong type of yeast - a brewer's variety - was used in making the drink.
Prosecutor Gareth Parry said that at 8pm on April 22 police saw the vehicle at Rhuallt, travelling all over the road. Taylor was stopped at St Asaph.
Louise Taylor (pictured), 41, from Cheshire, blamed her breath-alcohol count on a friend's home-made Kombucha tea after she was was caught four times over the drink-drive limit
A PC, who followed the white Range Rover Sport for six miles while using blue lights and a siren, said it had been drifting on the hard shoulder and nearly collided with a number of wagons while overtaking.
A bottle in the vehicle was
