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Turn that frown upside down!
Yesterday, a bill that would remove restaurants and bars from the archaic, post-Prohibition laws regulating the sales of low-alcohol beers in convenience and grocery stores made it out of the House Economic and Business Development Committee — 13 to 0. Senate Bill 60 has already been approved by the Senate; two more successful votes, and it will land on Governor John Hickenlooper’s desk.
As a onetime restaurateur — albeit one whose establishments specialized in craft beer, which are rarely low-alcohol brews — Hickenlooper is certain to see the silliness of the current version of Colorado liquor laws, which prohibit restaurants and bars from serving 3.2, or very low-alcohol, beer to their customers. You know, the stuff that might be more responsible to drink than the higher-octane brews.
Although proposals involving which stores can sell what beers have all died this session, SB 60, which has the support of the Colorado Restaurant Association, keeps chugging along.
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