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FEB 13, 2009 02:59 AM
If it's just about alcohol and getting drunk, then by all means, enjoy and imbibe 
. If you are looking to enjoy a beer for it's taste (which is entirely subjective to begin with), I suggest sticking with beers are well below that 13.9% limit. The more alcohol a beer has, the more molasseslike it gets and the more it tastes like Worcestershire sauce (or so I've heard), which may have to do with the addition of sugars to increase alcohol content. I've also heard of "heavy alcohol" beers that are kind of the dregs of a brew (a lower layer that has become too high in alcohol to for the yeast too continue fermenting it). Me, I'll stick to a good 'ol Leine's at 5-6%, that way I can enjoy two or three before I'm good (so I'm just a lightweight).
Toku666 said:
An interesting potential wrinkle here is that despite the state limit being overturned, customers will still have to deal with the bizarre and truly Byzantine process of beer distribution here in the States. It's completely unreal when you start looking at which breweries can sell their wares in specific states or regions, and which can't.
Byzantine and antiquated. One of the only exceptions to free interstate trade is on beer and wine sales where various restrictions and prohibitions still exist. Supposedly the Supreme Court ruling on Interstate Commerce favored protecting trade without discrimination back in the 18th Century but to this day, alcohol is one of the few Constitutionally restricted (deferring to States' right to regulate or prohibit), yet is expressly legal in national terms (the repealing of the 18th Amendment with the 21st is a bit half-ass, but at least the compromise ended a major bootlegging criminal enterprise while allowing people to legally drink). It would be nice to have another, similar Amendment that repeals the restriction of certain drug laws...
LimoWreck
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October 2007
FEB 12, 2009 07:06 PM