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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.<br>Although it tasted 'disgusting', 41-year-old Louise Taylor from Holmes Chapel Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, said she had been told it was good for gut health. <br>'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.<br>She admitted driving her car on the A55 dual carriageway with a breath-alcohol count of 135.<br><br>The legal limit is 35.<br>Defence lawyer Ashley Barnes said it appeared the wrong type of yeast - a brewer's variety - was used in making the drink.<br>        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<br>Prosecutor Gareth Parry said that at 8pm on April 22 police saw the vehicle at Rhuallt, travelling all over the road.<br><br>Taylor was stopped at St Asaph.<br>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.<br>A bottle in the vehicle was half full of a liquid which smelled of alcohol.<br>  RELATED ARTICLES              <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>The corporate lawyer (pictured) admitted driving her car with a breath-alcohol count of 135 - the legal limit is 35<br>A traffic colleague, PC Peter Doran, said: 'Her eyes were red and glazed, her speech slurred.<br><br>She was very unsteady on her feet.'<br>Taylor, who said she was 'head of legal', and according to her LinkedIn works for Chetwood Financial,  [https://www.cruisewhat.com/is-nutritional-yeast-kosher-for-passover/ www.cruisewhat.com] described how she had met a friend at Knutsford in the morning to take their dogs for a walk.<br>She then went for lunch in a hotel restaurant and shared a bottle of wine.<br>She had stopped to see her friend Angela at Connah's Quay on the way to Abergele. <br>Taylor said she had been diagnosed with Coeliac disease, affecting the gut, and that her friend wouldn't knowingly give her alcohol. <br>The general counsel and company secretary for a bank insisted in evidence: 'I'm not a massive drinker at all.' <br>Taylor had at least two glasses of the tea drink Kombucha and drank from a water bottle containing it as she drove.<br><br>She had also taken four antihistamines for hayfever that day and started feeling unwell.<br>Taylor said she took the drink 'in good faith', adding: 'I didn't knowingly drink and drive.'<br>        'I didn't believe it was alcoholic,' Taylor told Llandudno magistrates' court (file photo above) in North Wales, saying her friend Angela Morrison brewed it using yeast and mushrooms<br><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news" data-version="2" id="mol-36e962d0-1d65-11ec-bf53-0fda03e00a71" website caught four times over drink-drive limit blames friend&apos;s tea