Comments on Sneaky booze

Just goes to show you. Drunks are lazy. Place the good stuff a couple blocks away and they'd rather sober up.

AFFECTS! Please!

affects, not effects

Benson's grocery at Pike and Bellevue has Big Bear Malt liquor.

I looked at the comments just to see how much of them we're correcting the affect/effect mistake. You people our the reason that other people feel that they're lives are unadaquit. Go remove the caret from your ass!

Why not just impose a tax on fortified wine and malt liquor and use the cash to fund alcohol treatment programs?

While a tax would work with fortified wine (which is regular wine with hard liquor added), it wouldn't work so well with malt liquor. Why? Because for the most part, "malt liquor" is difficult to define. It's brewed just like regular beer, but is much stronger in alcohol content. Barley wines and Belgian Ales also have very high alcohol content, but they're costly to make and buy. Not many people would consider Chimay a malt liquor, though it is stronger than say, Olde English 800.

One way to define a malt liquor is by its ingredients. Cheap, strong beer can be made by adding lots of rice and corn. You won't see Belgian Ales made with corn. But this puts the city in the position of having to define beer by its ingredients, just like the Germans do, which is not necessarily a bad thing.