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 | 1 Comment »
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 | 1 Comment »
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 »
We’ve all been there. You’ve been out for a few hours. You had dinner with wine or a beer; maybe even a cocktail or two. After that you stop at a club and have a few more. But you’ve been pacing yourself. You feel fine but you wonder if there’s a road-block or if you roll through a stop sign and get pulled over if you will get busted for DUI
Filed under: Beer, Cocktails, Wine, Alcohol Law, Breathalyzer, DUI on October 28th, 2007 | No Comments »
A couple of seemingly contradictory headlines started the beer blog blogger thinking about drinking age limits, societies’ differing views of alcohol, and alcohol laws in general.
Filed under: Beer, Alcohol Law on August 16th, 2007 | No Comments »