[COHO] Beer Laws being over turned in other states

[Huntkng@aol.com]

Looks like beer drinkers are uniting to overturn some out dated laws.   Here 
are just a few out takes from the article I read.
 
--Beer enthusiasts in Alabama, Mississippi and West Virginia are lobbying  to 
overturn laws that ban sales of beer that exceeds 6% alcohol. Stuart Carter  
of the Alabama lobbying group Free the Hops says Belgian ales and craft beers, 
 which range from 7% to 14%, appeal to tourists and aficionados and aren't 
the  kind of brews preferred by binge drinkers.

William Perkins of the  Mississippi Baptist Convention Board supports state 
restrictions. "The  intellectual argument ignores the ill effects of alcohol," 
he says. "Piling up  more beers, no matter how tasty or expensive or 
exclusive, doesn't make  sense."

Carter disagrees. The Scottish-born computer technician often  buys beer in 
Georgia, which raised its alcohol limit to 14% in 2004 and  is now home to 300 
craft beers (who would have thought Georgia was  that into craft beer?). In 
Birmingham, he says, "You can  buy a case of Bud Light but you cannot buy one 
bottle of beer brewed by Trappist  monks."


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