{"id":670,"date":"2009-08-24T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=670"},"modified":"2009-10-15T09:19:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:19:17","slug":"the-odd-economics-of-post-prohibition-pennsylvania-liquor-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/the-odd-economics-of-post-prohibition-pennsylvania-liquor-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"The odd economics of post-Prohibition Pennsylvania liquor laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d just finished dinner at a restaurant within a short walk of my hotel, and I thought it’d be nice to have another beer when I got back to the hotel (in Pennsylvania, you buy less-than-case amounts of beer from licensed bars). I went up to the bar, and ordered six Sam Adams. The server looked at me a bit oddly, then went back to pick up my order.<\/p>\n

When she came back, she said, “You know this is going to be very expensive, don’t you?”
\n“Uh, just how<\/em> expensive are we talking here?
\n“Well, six bottles at $4 per bottle expensive. You could probably buy a case for that at [name of nearby beer warehouse].”<\/p>\n

Two gents at the bar chime in that I’m crazy<\/em> to pay that kind of money for just six beers, but they’d happily take any extras from the case I should buy at [nearby beer warehouse].<\/p>\n

The three of them then gave me carefully simple instructions on how to find my way to [nearby beer warehouse], where I picked up this:<\/p>\n

\"HopDevil\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the most hoppy IPA brews I’ve ever tasted . . . for slightly more than what I would have had to pay for six at the bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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