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In an attempt to curb underage drinking, Missouri has passed a new law which goes into effect Thursday, requiring beer kegs to be registered to their buyers.
The law requires retailers to attach a tag that will allow the keg to be traced back to the buyer. The store must keep records for three months with the buyer's name, address and birth date.The idea is that if someone bought a keg and supplied it to teenagers, and the party was broken up, law enforcement could identify who provided the alcohol and pursue charges.
They'll take my beer when they pry it from my cold dead hands!
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Sounds like a recipe for more moonshining.
As a St. Louis native, I’m shocked to read this. Shocked because one of the state’s largest business enterprises is Anheuser-Busch, and at least once upon a time (much more recently than this post suggests) the situation was such that members of the Missouri General Assembly wouldn’t pick their noses without A-B’s permission; A-B’s lobbyists had instilled that much fear into them (up until the day I left St. Louis for Memphis we didn’t have an open container law because the brewery wouldn’t let the ledge pass it). I can’t imagine that the Gnomes of Pestalozzi Street really supported this legislation. Has the brewery’s ownership of the legislature finally ended?