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Filed Under (General Beer News) by admin on 20-06-2007

Here is a very sad story. The town of Potter in New York has just outlawed the selling of beer in the township due to stupid referendum.

A few years ago a restaurant in the township applied for a license to serve alcohol in its premises.. sounds pretty straight forwards right.. wrong!

For some reason the state of New York requires the applicant to get some sort of town agreement for the license, so a referendum was held. The only problem was that the referendum included 5 law filled questions that the townsfolk got scared of and answered no to them all. This resulted of course in a complete ban of the selling a beer in the town, a law which would create riots in areas where I live!

The townsfolk don’t want the restriction on beer sales and will probably have to drive outside of the 37 square mile township to buy beer.

The moral of this story: Don’t trust lawyers… or maybe just take up home brewing!

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3 Comments posted on "The Town With No Beer"
duffman on June 20th, 2007 at 3:49 am #

Sounds like the old song ‘the pub with no beer’! What a tragedy, I don’t think i would cope

Andrew on June 21st, 2007 at 2:40 am #

If it was the townsfolk that stuffed up in the first place how hard could it be just to undo the rule

Joe Brown on June 28th, 2007 at 4:34 am #

Funny you should ask…you see it’s my dad’s store that is in danger of going out of business. Because NY is so backwards the law states that the alcohol vote can only come up every 3 years! So we couldn’t re-vote it. Now the state senate and legislature has passed a bill allowing my dad to continue selling beer until a Nov. vote but the governor still has to sign it. As to the 5 questions….well I understood what it meant after the fifth read. They were written right after prohibition and really were less than comprehensible. Embarrassing for us as this story is now all over the world!

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