It’s all well and good that the state House wants to legalize the sale of canned cocktails outside of ABC stores, but the Senate needs to get in the act too, the co-owner of a chain of beer and wine stores on the Outer Banks says. The Senate is advancing its own set of ABC […]
An ABC-law rewrite that could put pre-mixed cocktails on grocery-store shelves has cleared its first committee, but not before getting watered down, literally. The version of House Bill 921 that cleared the House’s ABC committee on Tuesday includes a lower, 9.9.% cap on the volume of alcohol a pre-mixed cocktail can contain. The original version […]
This year’s ABC bill could put premixed cocktail brands like Cutwater and High Noon on grocery store shelves, just like beer and wine. The idea is already drawing opposition not just from temperance advocates like the Rev. Mark Creech, but from trade groups like the N.C. Beer & Wine Wholesalers and the N.C. Association of […]
North Carolina’s liquor-control laws are antiquated and need a major overhaul, to allow more retailers to join local ABC stores in selling gin, rum, bourbon and other distilled beverages, the backers of a new PR drive argue. “Break up the monopoly,” the backers of the “Free Our Spirits” campaign say. Led by Carolina Champions for […]
