[Fractal Trader]

FMCDH

[BlessedBeGod]

That’s odd. I thought infused alcohol was common.

[WKUHilltopper]

What a horrible crime! In the mean time, how many illegal ailens/terrorists sneaked into your state while saving everyone from bacon vodka?

[Paladin2]

Booze has been put on the Watch List?

[Daniel Ramsey]

I bet muzzies got served, and then found out they drank pig skin vodka.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“Obviously this is a violation of law,” he said. “You cannot pour alcohol out and pour anything back into the bottle then serve it.”

It's legal to pour liquor into another vessel (e.g. a Bloody-Mary glass); add things to it (whereupon "infusion" takes place, albeit for minutes rather than days); and then serve it.

Would it be legal to pour the alcohol into another vessel (e.g. a jar); add stuff to it; allow infusion for a period of time; pour the resulting mixture into a cocktail glass; and then serve it?

Could it be that simple? If not, why not?

[Telepathic Intruder]

You cannot pour alcohol out and pour anything back into the bottle then serve it

How about just putting some bacon into the bottle and then taking it out again later?

[Ray76]

Many places infuse liquor, beer, wine.

[The Great RJ]

In Minnesota a bar was serving a popular beer from Wisconsin that was not distributed in Minnesota. The owner was charged with a felony, the bartender fined and the establishment lost its liquor license because the state of Minnesota felt cheated out of probably less than $25 in taxes on a single keg of beer. The owner could have been selling pot out the back door and faced lesser consequences. Carrie Nation’s ghost must wander the halls of state liquor regulatory agencies.

[Hugin]

Their crime is putting it back into the original bottle. That’s to prevent bars from putting cheap liquor into premium bottles. They should have used separate bottles for their infusions.

[BigEdLB]

[Rastus]

When the owner was approached:

[alexander_busek]

"If the restaurants are doing something unlawful, then they need to be notified that it's unlawful," [former ABLE attorney] Maisch said. "There are dozens of restaurants throughout the state of Oklahoma that are infusing drinks, so if it's illegal[,] then someone has neglected to tell them."

So ignorance of the Law IS an excuse?! And "but everyone does it," too?! Brilliant legal defence! How about "I vass only following ordahs," too?

Regards,

[bakeneko]

OK so this is why the FDA needs SWAT teams.

[opus1]

Oh for Pete’s sake! Did anyone get hurt from this infused alcohol? When the police become teetotalers, govt agencies become enforcers of theories, and the military goes pansy, we are really lost.

[Sivad]

As messed up as many California laws are this
seems like something that would be handled by the ABC
(Alcoholic Beverage Control) with a fine or possibly
a license suspension for multiple infractions.....but
maybe not.

[VerySadAmerican]

If there was no bacon involved nothing would be said. Can’t worry about a terrorist like Mohammed Atta having bacon while going out for one last night on the town before he dies in a terrorist act.

[Gene Eric]

>> and put back into the bottle

Can’t do that.

[Portcall24]

I guess our Apple Pie Moonshine that folks bring and drink to parties here in Virginia might have a problem in OK.

[montag813]

This country really sucks

[stinkerpot65]

Hopefully, no police egos were harmed by these violent criminals.