When I first heard this story it got my dander up. And trust me you don’t want to mess with my dander!
Here’s what happened. A group of college kids, all presumably of legal drinking age, staged a protest wherein they marched en masse off campus and to a local bar. There they […]
Filed under: Alcohol Law, drinking age on March 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From time to time I harp on the regulations restricting alcohol sales and consumption. After reading this article I have to admit that Utah seems to take the prize for having the craziest set of liquor laws for now.
The good news is that lawmakers are seeking to remove some of the silly restrictions. […]
Filed under: Alcohol Law on March 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Here’s an interesting website - b4udrink.org. Basically it’s a calculator designed to figure your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) based on factors like weight, gender, alcohol consumed and food eaten. It’s easy to use; once you’re on the site you just click to enter the virtual bar where, after entering your vitals, you’re told […]
Filed under: Alcohol Law, Breathalyzer, blood alcohol on January 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Anti-alcohol groups have a right to their opinion about how the boozy majority of us live. Complaints about marketing to children and encouraging binge drinking can be legitimate but are clearly overused. But what really offends me about them is their utter lack of a sense of humor.
The latest such case involves a […]
Filed under: Alcohol Law, marketing on October 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here in the US there is a national drinking age of twenty-one. This is a rather higher limit than in most other countries and it wasn’t always this high. It also wasn’t national.
The drinking age limit is actually set by states. But in a questionable move the Federal government, bowing to pressure […]
Filed under: Alcohol Law, drinking age on August 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m amazed to learn that a number of Colorado liquor store owners who complain about the new law allowing them to be open on Sunday.
Filed under: Alcohol Law on July 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I tend to go on about this but the variety of silly laws regarding alcohol sales and consumption never cease to amaze me.
Filed under: Beer, whiskey, whisky, Alcohol Law on April 26th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One doesn’t exactly think “clandestine” when mixing sangria but that’s exactly what it is to make the drink in Virginia.
Filed under: Alcohol Law, sangria on January 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Absinthe isn’t the only hallucinogenic booze that humans have tried. How would you like some hemlock on your beer?
Filed under: Beer, Alcohol Law, absinthe on January 9th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
After a decades-long prohibition Absinthe has returned to the US.
Filed under: Alcohol Law, absinthe on November 26th, 2007 | 11 Comments »