After Bud complaint, Chicago shop that planned to go craft beer-only to allow mass domestics
Amid Budweiser complaints, a proposed craft-beer-only liquor license for a North Side market has been tweaked to allow the sale of domestic brews.
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For those of you who favored a license that would have restricting this establishment from stocking or selling Budweiser and other non-craft beers, keep in mind the precedent it would have set. If you can restrict an establishment to *only* selling craft beer, you can also restrict an establishment to *only* selling non-craft beer. It’s not in the interest of beer drinkers in general, whether they be craft drinkers, non-craft drinkers, or folks who dabble in a little each other, to have licenses that restrict shops from offering a wide variety of beers.
The second thing that’s worth mentioning is that the original license terms with the stipulation against selling non-craft beer seemed to be there with the express intent of limiting the access of the poor to beer. That seems pretty anti-American to me. The guy working at a low wage job down the street isn’t entitled to walk to into a shop and pay some of his hard earned cash for a six pack and enjoy a beer or two at the end of a long hard day? I mean, granted, it wouldn’t have been an outright ban, but if you restrict beer sales enough to where it becomes very inconvenient for some people to find beer they can afford (maybe especially if they can’t have cars), it’s comes close to being one, Anyone in favor of personal freedom really should be against a restrictive license like that, explicitly designed to keep beer out of the hands of certain customers the local government deems “undesirable”.