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Beer
fromTasting Table
2 hours ago

This New York Alcohol Rule Keeps Some Aspiring Breweries From Getting Licensed - Tasting Table

Owning a stake in a retail alcohol business disqualifies a person from obtaining a brewer's license under tied-house laws preventing manufacturers from holding retail interests.
fromTasting Table
4 days ago

The US State With Booze Rules So Strict, Even Your Pour Is Monitored - Tasting Table

Generally, the pour of liquor in your glass is up to the discretion and recipe of the mixologist. In Utah, however, bartenders are required to use a special calibrated device to ensure that a pour of liquor comes out at exactly 1.5 ounces. They are quite serious about this, mandating that all bottles use these devices, and that the devices themselves have a margin of error of less than one sixteenth of an ounce for a one-ounce pour - or about a third of a teaspoon.
US politics
fromFortune
4 weeks ago

Georgia's 'America First' license plates, Washington's $17 minimum wage and Hawaii's climate change tourist tax: new laws are on the books | Fortune

Hawaii imposes a tourist 'Green Fee' for climate resilience; Utah intensifies alcohol ID checks and marks extreme DUI licenses; Georgia offers 'America First' plates.
fromThe Walrus
4 weeks ago

2025: The Local Stories You May Have Missed | The Walrus

O ur writers have brought us stories from coast to coast to coast, be they Vancouver council races, New Brunswick health care problems, or remote greenhouses in the Northwest Territories.
Canada news
Beer
fromFortune
1 month ago

Supporting moderation: beer's structural advantage in the no-alcohol space | Fortune

Beer retains character, flavor, and identity when alcohol is reduced or removed, unlike distilled spirits that lose identity without ethanol.
Food & drink
fromPoynter
2 months ago

'Where's the amaro?' How one independent journalist tested North Carolina's state-run liquor system - Poynter

North Carolina's state-run liquor control system centralizes distilled spirit sales, causing inventory shortages, higher prices, and limited product availability such as amaro.
Beer
fromTasting Table
5 months ago

The Type Of Alcohol In White Claw, Explained - Tasting Table

White Claw is a malt-based hard seltzer made from fermented sugars, effectively a filtered, gluten-free malt liquor sold and taxed under beer rules.
fromInsideHook
7 months ago

To Curb Drunken Tourists, Porto Limits Alcohol Sales

There's a reason the residents of several European cities are staging protests against mass tourism; bad behavior from visitors can have unintended consequences.
Travel
UK politics
fromIndependent
7 months ago

Simon Harris says warning labels on alcohol to be introduced by this Government

Health warning labels on alcohol may increase costs for producers and consumers, according to Minister Peter Burke.
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