Alaska distilleries need your help

[hshade]

The Alaska Alcoholic Beverage Control Board is considering prohibiting distilleries from serving our distilled spirits with non-alcoholic mixers in our tasting rooms after having that ability for over 3 years since the passage of a tasting room bill in our state legislature.  Please help support us by submitting comments to our state's ABC Board and Legislators.  Please go to the following website for more information:

www.craftedforalaska.com

[whiskeytango]

So you can basically act like a bar now without having to have a bar license?  Thats a sweet deal.  

 

[hshade]

Hi whiskeytango,

No, we cannot "act like a bar".  Unlike a bar, we are limited to serving only 3 ounces of the product we make on site per person per day.  We are limited in the hours we can be open and we cannot serve past 8:00 pm.  We cannot have seats at the bar.  We cannot serve just any alcoholic beverage; no beer, wine, or spirits made off sites like bars can.  And we cannot have entertainment, pool tables, or televisions.  So, no, it is VERY different from what a bar license can do.  And we are required to make all the product we serve from scratch.  All we are doing is presenting our 3 ounces of product to the customer in the way the particular product is intended to be served.  Thank you for your question.

 

[whiskeytango]

Where is the push coming from for the state to make this change?    Its always hard going agains the state.