Colorado bans beer with less than 4% alcohol from restaurants and bars

tdwp wrote:

whatwouldritzdo wrote:

That story is from 11/28/2010. Why are you discussing it now?

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Coors light is above 4% & it has more alcohol than Guinness for all you beer snobs.

Yeah but it tastes like shit so abv doesn't count all that much for beer snobs.

I can't believe this thread got so many posts. The link is from November 2010.

Colorado changed the law to allow bars to sell low alcohol beer in MAY 2011!

http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2011/05/beer_here_john_hickenlooper_wi.php

Not a very timely debate.

Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor!!!!!! wrote:

I can't believe this thread got so many posts. The link is from November 2010.

Colorado changed the law to allow bars to sell low alcohol beer in MAY 2011!

http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2011/05/beer_here_john_hickenlooper_wi.php

Not a very timely debate.

In that case, we need to bomb the hell out of Japan. Someone should start working on building some kind of atom bomb or something.

And both are god awful. Guinness is the beer people drink when they want to pretend to have good taste or pretend to be Irish. Real beer snobs don't drink that swill.

Runner85 wrote:

It seems like it should be the opposite to me. If you want to buy beer at a grocery or convenience store and go home and drink it, you get weak stuff that will take 12 or more to get drunk. If you drive or go out of your way to an establishment it is even easier to go over the limit.

I feel like the only reason I would ever drink a low alcohol beer is if i planned on driving or wanted to just hang out and get home early.

Hah, Americans, so eager to drink AND drive. What the f...

So from the article I gather it is technically illegal for convenience stores to sell Bud, Miller and Coors as they're over 4% ABV. Is this law followed and/or enforced? If so, I'm astounded. If not, then why have the law on the books?

+1

beersnobguy the real one wrote:

And both are god awful. Guinness is the beer people drink when they want to pretend to have good taste or pretend to be Irish. Real beer snobs don't drink that swill.

Agreed. Honestly I'd take the Coors over the Guinness. At least i'd be able to get it down faster.

What a bunch of ignorant turds you people can be.

In CO, they only sell 2%beer at grocery stores. To buy real beer, you must go to a liquor store or bar.

Now, that 2% beer at the grocery store is made all the major brands and even a bunch of CO breweries. YOU CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE IN PACKAGING. I learned this the hard way.

This law preventing the sale of anything below 4% is a good thing because it protects customers from paying $7 for a pint of bullish!t near-beer at a bar or restaurant. This makes sure they get what they are paying for and expecting.

Well it looks like I might be part ignorant turd too if the law was overturned. I stand by my statement for why the law was a good one.

taster of things wrote:

Agreed. Honestly I'd take the Coors over the Guinness. At least i'd be able to get it down faster.

You're a loser.

they sell 3.2% not 2

Beer Snob wrote:

taster of things wrote:

Agreed. Honestly I'd take the Coors over the Guinness. At least i'd be able to get it down faster.

You're a loser.

Says the Guinness drinker. How ironic.

Here In Canada, anything less than 5% is called water.

I can't believe Colorado has this crazy law!!! You would think the lawmakers would fix it!!!

LOL oh the irony wrote:

Beer Snob wrote:

You're a loser.

Says the Guinness drinker. How ironic.

Anyone who drinks Coors should not be taken seriously when it comes to identifying a good beer.

[quote]ignorant turd wrote:

What a bunch of ignorant turds you people can be.

In CO, they only sell 2%beer at grocery stores. /quote]

We're ignorant turds? You thought grocery stores sold 2% alcohol beer... really? Have you ever been to CO or drank beer?

Also I believe that "3.2 beer" is 3.2% abw (alcohol by weight) while the alcohol content of most beverages is reported in %abv (alcohol by volume). Turns out 3.2% abw is about 4.0% abv. So only about 0.2% lower than normal Coors Light.

Personally I'm all for prohibiting sale of full strength beer/wine/liquor in grocery stores. In my experience, many CO liquor stores have a better selection of alcohol than almost any store in states that allow all alcohol to be sold in grocery stores.

I love Murphy's. I guess I'll have to drink something else when I go to Colorado. They need to start a petition or something to get this changed.

Some other intersting Alcohol laws here: Liquor stores had to close on Sundays up until a few years ago and an individual or company cannot be the majority owner of more than one Liquor store. So we have one Target, one Safeway, and one King Soopers (Kroger) that sell liquor and full strength beer.