Police said a bar in Maple Grove, Minn. was caught selling Spotted Cow, a beer that's only legal in Wisconsin.
Posted on 04/20/2015 12:24:11 PM PDT by SJackson
Police said a bar in Maple Grove, Minn. was caught selling Spotted Cow, a beer that's only legal in Wisconsin.
A Minnesota bar was busted for illegally pouring a Wisconsin exclusive.
The owners of Maple Grove’s Maple Tavern could face felony resale charges for selling pints of Spotted Cow, a farmhouse beer brewed in Wisconsin and distributed only in-state, police said.
The Minneapolis-area bartenders drove across the border and loaded up on kegs of the coveted New Glarus Brewing Co. ale before they were busted during a sting last week, KMSP reported.
Undercover officers went to the Maple Tavern on April 13 after several anonymous tips. The pub had been bragging on its Facebook that the elusive brew was on tap, and some customs reported seeing the handle behind the bar, police said.
When the officers ordered frosty mugs of the Wisconsin-only Spotted Cow, they got them.
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New glarius beer is owned by a socialist. She spends heavy for democrats and liberal causes. When you drink a spotted cow, you are helping the enemy.
Which is amusing, since Coors is one of the few non-union beers.
In California building trades members have been fined by their unions for drinking Coors on the job site.
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Too bad they don’t pursue illegal aliens which as much vigor and outrage there.
When my brain was relatively empty, MAD helped fill it up. I only went for the “punch line” in posting, but do remember most of the rest. Thanks for passing the test.....
Coors had but one (realatively large) brewery.
Heads up (or bottoms up) Wisconsin brew lovers. Minnesota bar busted for selling Wisconsin beer.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
I was only 15 minutes away last fall attending a conference in Lake Co IL and brought several cases back to PA.
Crossed four state lines with that cargo.
New Glarus Staghorn Oktoberfest is a keeper.
So it’s the Great Beer Caper, eh Toody and Muldoon?
Back in the 80s I was stationed in North Dakota. The alcohol at the base store was purchased through a distribution system set up similar to the Commissaries and Exchanges and the prices were pretty good. There were one or two distributors in all of North Dakota and they looked with envy at the two Air Force bases because they did not have contracts with the military system.
Senator Dorgan, IIRC, rammed a bill through Congress and into law that forced military bases to purchase from the local distributors which included the state and local tax stamps.
The price of alcohol went up quite a bit after that and I always wondered how much money that worthless politician got back from those distributors.
Things must be good in Minnesota.
Did the police roll out the beer barrels into the street and smash the kegs with axes? What is this? The 1920’s?
“And don’t go home, and don’t go to eat, and don’t play with yourself. It wouldn’t look nice on my highway......Oh, you can THINK about it... but don’t do it!”
No doubt.
As I’m reading this all I can think is, “Who cares?” Is this really a felony issue?
We are way too over regulated.
IIRC, Schlitz was one of the last major brewers to migrate from steel to aluminum cans.
Grand theft is only a crime if you don’t hold public office. Just ask Harry Reid.
Thank God all the important problems have been solved!
How dare they sell ILLEGAL BEER?
It’s almost as if they thought they were running a business selling a product people want in a free country!
Jail for them all...
“Coors had but one (relatively large) brewery.”
Yes, in Golden, CO. I toured the brewery in 1980, but that was long after the “Coors frenzy” had run its course on the East Coast.
“I always wondered how much money that worthless politician got back from those distributors.”
In Georgia, the beer and liquor distributors have one of the most powerful powerful lobbies. Craft breweries can’t sell their own beer directly to the public without going through the monopoly distributors. So, they get around this by selling a large $10 “souvenir” glass which you can then fill (once) at the “tasting” counter.
“I thought it was because Coors wasn’t pasteurized back then... and thus HAD to be refrigerated.”
Yes, I think that's correct. Coors claimed it didn't use preservatives and had an alternative sterilization process that required the beer to be kept cold.
I While I live in Virginia now my home state is Michigan and I think it is the same way there. The distributors have a lock on sales and shipping. Corruption at its finest.
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