AB INBEV, THE WINNER IS YOU!

/just tax the stuff by units of ethanol and end the rest of this BS

beta_plus: /just tax the stuff by units of ethanol and end the rest of this BS

That would probably help inbev by raising the price of microbrews disproportionally.

Interesting, since in Utah, that is all you can buy in the state run stores, unless you want to buy a 128 pack of 3.2 swill at the local grocery store

Would increasing the penalties on open container and drunk in public have an appreciable impact?

I really think its time to round up the hopeless drunks and homeless and euthanize them.

/r.I.p d_evans45

On the plus side, there's a new caffeinated malt liquor to replace the toothless version of Fourloko. "Max" something something.

Why would anybody just buy one beer?

GlobalThunder: Why would anybody just buy one beer?

Think of it as the "takeout" option.

Approves.

It's rather interesting that the areas where you can still buy single beers are also where the white people are.

Yet another example of Republicans trying to oppress poor minorities.

Several years ago, the previous mayor rammed through an ordinance banning the sale of single beers from ice buckets near the cash register in convenience store.

You could still buy a single from the cooler in the back of the store, or a six pack from the ice bucket. Current mayor got rid of that law.

Producers, or are store owners simply trimming six-packs into 3 two-packs?

Really sucks for brewers that bottle in larger 750mL bottles.

But laws always work exactly as intended.

Instead of actually enforcing the laws that are being violated (public drunkenness, public urination, etc.) they decided to make the store-owners responsible for somebody else's morality or lack thereof.

How ridiculous.

Yay government. Clearly more regulation is needed! Yay Liberals! Yay Obama!

The rare double barrel colt 45.

cefm: Instead of actually enforcing the laws that are being violated (public drunkenness, public urination, etc.) they decided to make the store-owners responsible for somebody else's morality or lack thereof.

How ridiculous.

Welcome to DC.

Grew up in southern Louisiana. Had no idea that in the rest of the country it's illegal to drink a beer outside. Thought the first place I moved was a police state run by puritans, but then I realized it was the same everywhere.

That year, the D.C. Council made selling single beers illegal in wards 2 and 6 and in Mount Pleasant; since then, the ban has expanded to cover all of wards 4, 7 and 8. (Fearing the voting power of those likely to drink large single-sale bottles of Belgian ales, exceptions were worked into the law for wards 2 and 6.)


Translation: White people live in Wards 2 and 6

Some interesting points have been made in the comments here. In this case, the law is definitely aimed at the poor, since they have made exceptions to policy based on the type of beer. Granted, walking around my neighborhood in Northeast (Ward 5 - Not affected by this legislation) there are a lot of people hanging around in the streets drinking, playing dice, getting into nonsense. They also have a tendency to hold up traffic, because they're getting into arguments in the middle of the street.

Also, those blaming the republicans for this one, in this case I believe that the legislation is the fault of the democrats, since the democratic primary is the decider of the mayoral race, and the actual election is only a formality. I don't know the makeup of the DC Council, and don't feel like looking it up, but I feel pretty safe in my assumption.

i love single beers. i bike to the local market and buy a 24 oz can and stick the can in the bikes bottle holder for the ride home. the locals that buy individual generic cigarettes at the shop for 50 cents each make me laugh. a pack of those cigs are less then 2.50. yeah i live in a pretty crappy area with people who live day to day.

DROxINxTHExWIND: Ward 6 includes George Washington University and Georgetown, where college kids and white folks walk around shiat-faced ALL the time.

Ward 2, you mean. Ward 6 has no universities. And there's a difference between what happens on Friday night than a guy sitting around the park drinking himself soiled on a Wednesday morning.

LemSkroob: Translation: White people live in Wards 2 and 6

...and Wards 1 (41%) and 3 (78%)* - neither of whom have exceptions. The city's less than 50% black at this point. So your translation is more accurate as: "Upscale beer and liquor places have a customer base in Wards 2 and 6". Proprietors who are asking for the exception ain't sellin' 40 of Schlitz. And they don't care of the color of their customer. So the exception is given because homeless people aren't looking for $8 bottles of Chimay.

/not saying the law is right. Just saying that casting it as a race issue is inaccurate and misleading.
*Black percentages for ward 1 and 3: 33 and 5.6 respectively.

Nemo's Brother: Yay government. Clearly more regulation is needed! Yay Liberals! Yay Obama!

For every stupid law, there must be an equally stupid rebuttal. Now the universe is in balance.

The really sad thing here is that it not only affects the sale of 40 oz bottles of Malt Liquor, but the sale of larger bottles of Chimay and other exclusive Belgian beers. You know, the 1% fortys.

PWPI: The really sad thing here is that it not only affects the sale of 40 oz bottles of Malt Liquor, but the sale of larger bottles of Chimay and other exclusive Belgian beers. You know, the 1% fortys.

Not if you go to the foo-foo wards.

GlobalThunder: Why would anybody just buy one beer?

To hold off the DTs long enough to panhandle for another beer.

DROxINxTHExWIND: Ask any community activist, and that would seem like a problem. That's a lot of booze for not a whole lot of money, after all, and the clientele outside the market doesn't seem to have much of a problem drinking on nearby sidewalks.

...(Fearing the voting power of those likely to drink large single-sale bottles of Belgian ales, exceptions were worked into the law for wards 2 and 6.)

They banned it everywhere except for the places where gentrification have taken over. What the fark difference does it make if you're drinking Belgian Ale or a Steel Reserve? It's all legal, right? Ward 6 includes George Washington University and Georgetown, where college kids and white folks walk around shiat-faced ALL the time. Makes me think maybe public drunkeness isn't the real reason they're imposing this law.

Agreed. It's clearly discriminatory against low income/no income folks.

It's apparently just fine to be drunk in public, but only if you vote.

stewbert:

It's apparently just fine to be drunk in public, but only if you vote.

Oddly, I'm okay with this.

// ward two'er
// love me some Fat Tire singles

yoyoyo: Interesting, since in Utah, that is all you can buy in the state run stores, unless you want to buy a 128 pack of 3.2 swill at the local grocery store

I'm intrigued. How is that packaged? Will it fit in the trunk of my car? How the hell do you get it out of the store? Inquiring minds want to know!

//retarded blue laws are retarded. Alcohol is legal for adults, let adults decide when and how they want to buy it.

I'm simply saying that life the market, uh... finds a way

yoyoyo: Interesting, since in Utah, that is all you can buy in the state run stores, unless you want to buy a 128 pack of 3.2 swill at the local grocery store

I was in Provo some years back and went to get a bottle of wine. The state store was in a seedy part of town and had barred windows and the ambiance of a Soviet prison. The whole transaction had the feel of a crack buy. Then there was the grocery store clerk who didn't know what a corkscrew was ...

Don't buy alcohol in Utah.

Anyone remember the UK town that confiscated salt shakers and replaced them with ones with fewer holes, the point being to cut down on salt consumption? Some people just drilled the fewer holes bigger so they could pour out more salt.

DROxINxTHExWIND: Ask any community activist, and that would seem like a problem. That's a lot of booze for not a whole lot of money, after all, and the clientele outside the market doesn't seem to have much of a problem drinking on nearby sidewalks.

...(Fearing the voting power of those likely to drink large single-sale bottles of Belgian ales, exceptions were worked into the law for wards 2 and 6.)

They banned it everywhere except for the places where gentrification have taken over. What the fark difference does it make if you're drinking Belgian Ale or a Steel Reserve? It's all legal, right? Ward 6 includes George Washington University and Georgetown, where college kids and white folks walk around shiat-faced ALL the time. Makes me think maybe public drunkeness isn't the real reason they're imposing this law.

It's disgusting how DC's white majority oppresses minorities.

Just great! Now there are those plastic things keeping the two beers together that people will dispose of in the streets. Just great for the environment!

Big fan of the Two-Pack:

the initial intention of the law, which was to cut down on the drinking of single beers and the inherent problems that legislators said came along with it

Such as...?