The Great Philly Beer Bust or, Step Away From The Unlicensed Ale or I'll Shoot!
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Back in March, the owners of Philadelphia's popular and upscale Memphis Tap Room found their place swarming with Pennsylvania state police searching for "unlicensed beer." As reported by the Philadelphia Daily News:
Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state Liquor Control Board - a process that requires the brewers or their importers to pay a $75 registration fee for each product they want to sell in Pennsylvania.
Based on a complaint from someone the State Police refuse to identify, three teams of officers converged last Thursday on the three bars, run by Leigh Maida and her husband, Brendan Hartranft. Checking their inventories against the state's official list of more than 2,800 brands, the cops seized four kegs and 317 bottles, totaling 60.9 gallons of beer, according to police calculations
Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie recently sat down at the scene of the crime with the Tap Room's Hartranft to talk about the long reach of nanny state alcohol laws that just seem crazy, especially in the city that birthed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
The Great Philly Beer Bust shines a dark light on how capricious enforcement of stupid regulations undermines life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Or at least a perfectly chilled Monk's Cafe Sour Flemish Red Ale.
Approximately 7.30 minutes long. Shot by Dan Hayes and edited by Josh Swain.
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This is another example of the true purpose of government.
Kensington, West Philly, and Gray's Ferry! This is the reason why those areas are such shit holes. This man right here! Peddling his unregistered wares! Thank goodness this mad man was stopped! But why is he still free!?!?
There is no reason why beer should have to be registered. That business owner has bought into the government's rhetoric too much.
I bet it was anheuser busch who filed the original complaint.
I know he has to appease bureaucrats who could squash him like a grape, but still... you'd think he would be a little less "understanding", and a lot more outraged.
This is just a govt shakedown of a small business.
Unregistered beer? Give me a break!
The govt should stop attempting to register beer.
This guy seemed a little too apologetic at the government being used to fuck with his business.
WTF....beer are you kidding me?
@MsWanderer1 The state is an extortion racket.
And I wonder what the cops did with the "unregistered beer"? Drank it?
@2025jackson Well maybe if they would attach a fine to rape those cases could be solved.
Fight the good fight. but DUDE can you stop saying "You know!" like you are a 14 year old?
The interviewee dances around questions and has a round about way of answering things. I'm sure he doesn't mean it, but it makes this guy hard to interview. And hard to listen to sometimes as well.
This guy seemed a little too apologetic at the government being used to fuck with his business.