Pop The Cap - North Carolina Beer Laws Updated!
A twice former co-worker of mine, Sean Wilson, founded an organization called Pop The Cap, whose purpose was to lobby for changes to North Carolina's antiquated restrictions on alcoholic content of malt beverages.
Thanks to the organization's efforts, the state assembly passed a bill which was signed in August, 2005 that raises the allowable percentage of alcohol from 6% to 15% - allowing the "craft beer" industry to find it's way into North Carolina.
If you ask me, it was a silly restriction anyway, limiting the alcoholic content to 6%. I mean, why? Wine has 10-15% alcohol, and of course liquor is 25-50% alcohol (unless you live in Indiana, where we used to get something called Everclear that was 190 proof!)
At any rate, I look forward to seeing some good brew pubs pop up around the area.
I was at the Bass Lake Draft House in Holly Springs this Sunday and I noticed their "featured beer" had 8% alcohol.
Sean Wilson worked with me both here at Duke and back in the KOZ days.
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