Maybe one day I will ask a bartender for a gin with a shot of whiskey as well as a splash of rum. But if I am ever in Nebraska I now know I don't dare add a dribble of beer to that cocktail:
A Prohibition-era law still on the books makes Nebraska the only U.S. state to ban bars from serving drinks that mix beer and liquor, and some lawmakers are trying to make the restriction history, ABC News reported Feb. 17. The law prohibits bars from serving drinks like boilermakers and Irish Car Bombs -- the latter a shot of Bailey's Irish Cream and whiskey dropped into a glass of stout.
Now, it's been a long time since I had a boilermaker, a high school staple, but it's like all the anti-neo-prohibitionist / neo-prohibitionist talk out of the UK - what the heck were these guys thinking? It's wrong to dilute the strength? Boggles the mind. Maybe it's all this Olympic chest thumping up here talking but, once again, it is so weird to read about a society where you may have the right to have a drink but you may have to fret about how you have it. We just make sure that our beer ads have no reference to actually drinking the stuff. Now that makes sense.
Comments
Dan - February 19, 2010 11:47 PM
I often find the more people you get together on a particular subject the dumber they get. For example, politicians!
Briefgold - February 26, 2010 5:30 AM
Hahaa!! I´m originally from the UK, now living in Germany - where the beer flows strongly! - and have worked in cocktail bars for about 4years now. I understand responsible service may come into this - the famous snakebite being banned in the UK (half lager, half cider, blackcurrant and a shot of vodka in it..I´m sure the lawmakers in Nebraska would have a corony if they saw that one!) is quite understandable because it really is lethal stuff, and ''easy'' to drink. Though from working in cocktail bars, so long as the customer isn´t falling off their chair, its fun to experiment - and enjoyable for the drinker as well to see what works and what doesn't. Placing restrictions on something like this, well, maybe the Nebraskan's need to loosen up a bit!!