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Town Fights Public Boozing With Warm Beer

Hope is drinkers won't crack a can on the street if it's not frosty

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 23, 2009 11:10 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Arlington Heights, Ill., is tackling its public drinking problem with a novel weapon: beer. Warm beer. Starting in January, stores won't sell single-serving bottles or cans of beer cold. You can still buy that tallboy, but the town is betting problem drinkers will be less likely to crack open a warm brew on the street. “The compromise is good,” a liquor store owner tells the Chicago Tribune—the town had mulled a ban on all single-serving sales. “It’s the best we can do.”

In March the law will expand, prohibiting all sales of wine in containers under 10 ounces and hard liquor under 6.4 ounces, targeting airplane-sized "nips." One village official is not particularly confident about the power of warm beer. “Don't be surprised if it doesn't work out to the hopes of the Police Department,” he says. “The alcoholic isn't going to sit there and say, ‘Well, I like my beer cold.’”

Coors beers.
Coors beers.   (AP Photo)
A man drinks a beer at a homeless camp.
A man drinks a beer at a homeless camp.   (AP Photo)
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yukonchuck06
Oct 27, 2009 4:19 AM CDT
It's a nice gesture n' all but, has anuyone ever heard of "FUCKING ICE?".....And if it's the homeless they're worried about they'll just put the beer in a plastic bag and put it in the icy pond near their underground mansions.........
bewilderbeast
Oct 24, 2009 7:30 AM CDT
REAL beer is often drank warm (anyway alkasandwich is right - read below). The mass-produced piss that passes for beer in the USA (sadly almost all your beer) really is quite a way off what real beer should be - and y'all like it. So there's no telling with taste! ------------------- Speaking of that: Let's start a movement! REFUSE to buy the huge breweries' products! SEARCH for a more local beer brewed near you!
IndependentThinker
Oct 23, 2009 10:17 AM CDT
BleeBloo: NO ONE? Yeah tell that to all the Irish and Germans that love their beer warm, and I am talking about beer not piss flavored water (aka Coors).

 
Chicago • alcoholism • beer • drinking • homeless • Illinois • public drinking • alcoholic • Arlington Heights

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