Posted on 01/30/2015 8:45:18 AM PST by RBW in PA
Edited on 01/30/2015 8:47:21 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
PITTSBURGH (AP)
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I hated the State Store in the 70’s. It was like going to the DMV to buy your booze.
Pappy has become the Screaming Eagle of Bourbon and IF you can find a bottle, let alone a bottle of the 20 year, it would cost about $400 on the normal market. Except unless you spend thousands of dollars a year at a store, you’ll never find a retailer willing to sell it to you.
On the secondary market - which is what this appears to be - it can easily go for $1200. Private sales should be exempted as long as there wasn’t a blanket announcement of the sale. Then the seller would need to be licensed to sell alcohol.
PA’s liquor laws are medieval. And they have a state run monopoly. But here in NJ, the laws are essentially the same. I had three people in the industry looking for a bottle of Pappy for a client. ANY bottle. Can’t be had.
Boy, I sure am glad we were protected from that!
At flight attendant school in PA, we Southern women went to a grocery store to buy some beer and were directed to a bar where were were able to buy ONE 6 pack for 3 of us. Sheesh. It was an early night for us.
Not to mention that abomination of Medieval proportions... 3.2% beer!
Pappy’s is $1,200 here in Colorado, and as they say, it is not “distributed” it is “allocated”.
I find most alcohols are not worth the price. Pappy’s might be great but not $1,200 a bottle great.
I spend $100 to $400 a bottle on a good Scotch, with anything past that not really worth it. A 35 year at $2,000 is certainly a different taste but just not worth $2,000. I guess I just don’t have that kind of money.
Let’s face it, the “illegality” of a thing ISN’T the determining factor in state prosecution today. It’s more down to the whim of the “authorities”.
No customer in a medieval tavern or public house would have tolerated such an abomination as 3.2% beer.
The Keystone Nanny State PING!
You have a point.
I agree. I’d like to try Pappy’s but even when I was at Buffalo Trace in Frankfort, they had none to sell.
BT’s Eagle Rare at 10yrs old is damn tasty for $30 per bottle.
And at $30 it’s worth a try!
Don’t mess w people booze. Ever heard of the whiskey rebellion?
Makers Mark here.
Blech. Waste of time.
A $20 bottle of Jack over a tiny ice cube is plenty good enough for me.
Liberalism at its absolute finest: Drive people to drinking and then make it hard for them to buy booze.
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