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I remember reading about the fermentation thing before, it just seemed so bizarre. Just strikes me as so odd, that the real innovation, is a tax workaround. A
by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I remember reading about the fermentation thing before, it just seemed so bizarre.
Just strikes me as so odd, that the real innovation, is a tax workaround. And that innovation basically created an entire market category.
At that point if I were the government, I would look at the current policies and determine if they still made sense. Meanwhile, the actual US customs didn't like that dodge, and apparently wanted imports of it re-classified for tariff purposes. That apparently happened last month.
- jdminhbg 5y agoI actually think if it were just the taxes, the innovation probably wouldn't have happened. The bigger problem is that you can't really sell a national canned hard liquor drink, even if the liquor in it has been diluted by mixers down to beer or wine levels of alcohol. Too many states don't allow liquor to be sold anywhere but licensed liquor stores, and shelf space there is too precious for low-priced high-volume beer substitutes. You can sell malt-based hard seltzer in gas stations nearly everywhere.
- gimmeThaBeet 5y agoThat's a very good point. I guess then I would lump those together as 'policy' but you are right, that is a very distinct problem vs taxes. And probably not a surprise, I'm really not a fan of most US alcohol policy.