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In what US states is 3.2 beer sold?
General Beer Discussion by FLASHPRO
Would you please be so kind and send me info on the following:In what US states is 3.2 beer sold?Is "near beer"the same as 3.2 beer?Are there states where both 3.2 and regular brew is sold or served,for instance regular beer in taverns and 3.2 beer in convienience stores? Would love to hear from you. Thank you very very much! Mr. E. Claussner
19 years ago
Ah, ok. I figured out what "3.2 Beer" is. Some states have laws related to the sale of beer based on alcohol. All those states use 3.2% abw as the limit, so the locals call the beer "3.2 beer". A lot of beer is already under 3.2% abw (most lite beers), but some of the mass producers such as Budweiser actually brew a slightly lower version of the regular bud to some of these states. What a joke.
Kansas has some weird blue laws.
First: We have both 3.2 and regular strength beers. 3.2 is sold in grocery and convenience stores, and some bars that don't sell hot food.
Second: "near beer" is not the same as 3.2, I believe it has .1% alcohol, or there abouts.
In addition to the strange percentage laws, Most places in Kansas can't sell alcohol on Sunday except in some municipalities where they have found a loophole in the law. (I am fortunate enough to live in one) Also in Kansas in order to sell full strength beer and liquor you must sell hot food and a certain percentage of your profits must come from food sales.
Almost makes a beer drinkin' Kansan want to pack up and move to Missouri..... almost.
This message was edited by fishbulb at 5/10/2004 2:35:17 PM.
In Reply To #6 Don't know what state(s) down south you're referring to, here in 'Bama, we got the GOOD stuff (guffaw). We go all the way up to 5.0. Our neighbors to the north and luckily the east (Tn. and Ga.) have much higher ABV allowances. Tn., I don't know the limit, Ga. recently went to double digits. Either way, it's not too long a drive for me, living 3 hrs. from Tn. and less than an hour away from Ga.
As fishbulb said, near beer is N/A or virtually non-alcohol beer. In NYS nobody under 21 can buy N/A because it contains a trace of alcohol. And Cottrell thinks the age laws for REAL beer are stupid... I left a couple messages re: this topic on the dude's answering machine last nite. Had to try; no response yet via email. He's the NYS Trooper I've referred to and he LIKES MB (not MB ICE, not MB LIGHT, just regular MB). Hey, maybe I can get him to this site--we can have a "Battle of the Cops" between him and PK, waddyasay? I also know an Oswego County Sheriff deputy and a number of Onondaga County Sheriff deputies from previous employments...do I have a concept here or what?!? lol, surf
FINALLY, I get a reply TODAY. Army bases that were in age 21 states would only let the 18's drink 3.2 beer, so that's all that was available on base. In age 18 states they had regular beer. The 3.2's were the BMC brands with reduced alcohol content. Ironically some bases had full strength mixed drinks available so some recruits would drink those instead of beer. He said that when he was doing 5 months of school at Ft Benning GA he would drive over to a then all-female base (Ft McClullen?) in Alabama. His daughter just came back from a Space Camp in Ala. last week.
In Reply To #10 I don't know how long ago he was at Ft. McClellan, but it was not an all female base. It was the home of the WAC, but also home to live chemical training and the primary M.P. training base. There have been no regular Army there since it closed in '99.