Boozin’ Blog

You know I like to drink. I’m fond of pretty much every form of alcohol from whisky to cider to red wine to mead – put it in front of me and chances are I’ll enjoy it. But my hands down favorite is beer. It is simultaneously simple and complex, unassuming and brash. No other drink is quite like it.

So, I tend to be a bit thin skinned about beer. The cheap clichés of beer being the drink of drunks drive me crazy. I get impatient when writers and journalists embrace them; I get absolutely pissed when lawmakers do.

The latest thing that has me crawling walls is the fact that Sam Adams high-alcohol beer, Utopia, is banned in 13 states here in the US. No doubt one can buy whisky, gin, vodka and many other forms of booze that far exceed Utopia’s 27% alcohol. But because Utopia is a beer, it must be stopped, according to these lawmakers.

When can we have some sort of equity? I’m not the biggest fan of Utopia. It’s $150 price tag is too great for what the beer is. But these stupid laws reinforce the idea that beer is evil and must be stopped.

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