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Responsible Retailing Forum Schedules 2011 Meeting

October 30th, 2010 | Author:

The 9th annual Responsible Retailing Forum (RRF) will be held on April 12-13, 2011 in Park City, Utah. RRF brings together alcohol regulators, state attorneys general and public health stakeholders to work with retailers and their distributors and suppliers, and their training providers, to promote policies that prevent underage sales of alcohol and tobacco products. The 2011 RRF will be hosted by the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The conference hotel is The Canyons. Information on the conference agenda, The Canyons and electronic registration will be posted on the RRF website later this year.


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The changing world of beer aficionados

October 28th, 2010 | Author:
Source: Herald Tribune
By KRISTINE NICKEL
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

This Bud’s for you, guys. After all, guys love beer. It is overwhelmingly a male beverage, with men accounting for about 75 percent of the volume consumed. A large number of these beer drinkers are white and favor domestic light beer, followed by domestic draft beer.

Here’s where the foam gets murky, however. More women are converting to beer, trending to specialty beers. According to Beerfocus.com, some emerging trends are breathing new life into the beer industry.

The sale of beer to women is a growing market.

Women currently account for 25 percent of beer consumption in the United States.

Women between the ages of 21 and 30 are drinking more beer than women in other age groups.

Beer drinking among women in the 50-plus age group is on the increase, too, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among beer advertisers worldwide.

SWITCHING FROM WINE

Women beer drinkers are a discerning bunch. They seem to demand more of their beer: more flavor, more complexity, more fruitiness, fewer calories and lower carbs.

Much of this new-found popularity has come at the expense of wine. Take my daughter, for example. She received her first wine the year she was born. She can hold her own in any wine tasting, dishing out descriptors with the best of them and is a whiz at matching food and wine.

She now mainly drinks beer.

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Alaska: Panels mull restrictions on cheap liquor

October 28th, 2010 | Author:
Source: The Associated Press
October 15th, 2010 07:23 AM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The city of Anchorage would crack down on some stores selling cheap liquor often purchased by street inebriates under rules to be studied by four community councils.
The rules are based on a law approved by the Anchorage Assembly for the Downtown Community Council district.
The law passed this week prevents the sale of wine costing less than $10 a bottle, six-packs of beer costing less than $6 and bottles of liquor priced less than $10 or smaller than 750 milliliters.
The law also mandates that individual containers have stickers identifying what store they came from and it prohibits stores from posting prices or beer signs on windows.

Community councils for Mountain View, Northeast, Fairview and Government Hill now are looking toward restrictions in their districts.

The new ordinance, pushed by Anchorage Assembly Vice Chair Patrick Flynn, affects four downtown liquor stores, which already had the restrictions as part of their individual permits to sell alcohol. Future liquor stores in the area also will have to follow the pricing restrictions.
Litter around town makes it clear that the cheaper alcohol is what’s being abused on the streets, Flynn said.
“Whoever you’re selling it to, it’s finding its way into the hands of somebody that’s not using it responsibly,” he said.

In Government Hill, there has been a drastic increase in public drunkenness in the last two years, according to council president Bob French. The neighborhood’s lone liquor store sells cheaper alcohol than is available anywhere else in the nearby vicinity and draws customers from downtown, he said.

“If you’re a public inebriate, and you have no income, (a) dollar a bottle is worth making a mile trek across a bridge,” French said.
Sharon Chamard, Fairview’s community council president, said the council would look closer at price restrictions, but she added that it is yet to be determined how the restrictions would affect responsible drinkers.
“I’d really want to know if those products are primarily used by the chronic inebriates,” she said. “I think that some of these restrictions might be discriminating against low-income folks.”

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Can a Bar make and sell it’s own infusion?

October 23rd, 2010 | Author:

We have been asked if bar owners can create their own unique infusion in a separate decanter over a matter of days to sell at a later time.  We investigated and were told it is illegal according to current Federal Regulation.  We are posting the regulation here so you can make your own conclusion:

§ 31.233   Mixing cocktails in advance of sale.

A retail liquor dealer shall not mix cocktails, or compound any alcoholic liquors in advance of sale, except for the purpose of filling, for immediate consumption on the premises, orders received, or expected to be immediately received, at the bar. See §31.204 for additional mixed cocktail rules.

(26 U.S.C. 5002)

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Wisconsin alcohol sales must be face to face

October 19th, 2010 | Author:

According to Wisconsin Law, statue 125.51(6), 125.272 alcohol beverage sales must be made face to face with buyer and seller both physically present at the licensed premises. The exceptions have to do with hotel rooms and caterers.

Here are a few scenarios that would likely be against the law:

During the Christmas holidays, some customers call  a retailer and have gift baskets with wine, cheese, etc. made up which are then delivered by the licensed retailer’s employees to the homes of the recipients of the gift basket (similar to a delivery of a flower arrangement).  Some of the customers who order the gift baskets request that a couple bottles of wines be included in the gift basket.

Some homebound customers call in grocery orders to  a licensed retailer and the retailer’s  employees deliver the groceries to the customers home.  Some of the call in orders include requests for beer, wine, and liquor.

Both of these scenarios are illegal.

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