February 26, 2016

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VA: Wild Turkey Master Distillers to Visit Virginia ABC Stores, Autograph Bottles in Northern Virginia VT: Marijuana legalization moves to Vermont House PA: $100M in revenue boosters in Pa. Liquor Control Board's sights

License State News NJ: Supermarket liquor license bill sent to committee

International News Canada: B.C. introduces minimum pricing for alcohol United Kingdom: London rolls out ‘sobriety tags’ United Kingdom: Hospitality industry joins calls for whisky tax reduction

Industry News Suntory Bolsters Strategy With Spirits Shake Up Hard soda category gets even more crowded German beer purity in question after environment group finds weed-killer traces Small Beer Distributors Being Trampled by Big Box Stores

Education News Penn State considering limited alcohol use at sporting events, concerts University of Alabama student starts petition seeking repeal of SEC's game day alcohol prohibition

Daily News Canadian Temperance posters (c. 1912)

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• 23 NABCA Legal Symposium in Alexandria, VA, March 13-15, 2016. Visit website for more information. Registration is open. th

• NABCA’s 79 Annual Conference May 20-23, 2016. Registration is open.

Upcoming events in 2016! • PLCB Bureau of Alcohol Education’s Annual Conference: “Underage and Dangerous Drinking: Sharing Resources – Sharing Outcomes.” (March 21-22, 2016) Email for more info. - [email protected] • Alcohol Policy 17 Conference – April 6-8, 2016 in Arlington, Virginia. Online registration is available for the Alcohol Policy. You can register for the conference and make your hotel reservation right there, as well (hotel rates for the conference are available until March 11th). For more information, visit their website. • Update! 2016 NLLEA Training Symposium - The Symposium will be held in Dover, DE at the Dover Downs Hotel, April 18 - April 22, 2016. More information and registration is available online at: http://www.nllea.org/trainingsymposium.htm • The 14th Annual Responsible Retailing Forum National Conference – (April 20-21, 2016) Click for more information. • 7th Bi-Annual Northwest Alcohol Conference in Boise, ID, July 28-29, 2016. Registration is now Open!

Job Opportunity The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission is seeking an

AUDIT DIRECTOR to independently direct the Internal Audit Division and Information Security Office in accordance with the approved Agency Audit Charter, ensuring that the Division operates in conformity with established audit principles and practices set by the Institute of Internal Auditors. Click here for more details.

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Please visit the website at https://www.abc.virginia.gov to apply online for position #00009. Your completed online application must be received by Human Resources no later than 11:59 p.m. on 03/04/2016.

NABCA Web Highlights • Grocery & Convenience Stores as Alcohol Outlets (October 2015) • NABCA Survey Database – now available for members on the website. • Research: Powdered Alcohol: An Encapsulation (updated November 2015) • Beverage Alcohol Control Agency Info Sheet: The control agency info sheet provides details about control jurisdiction and how each regulates the product and promotes alcohol awareness within the respective communities.

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CONTROL STATE NEWS VA: Wild Turkey Master Distillers to Visit Virginia ABC Stores, Autograph Bottles in Northern Virginia Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control February 25, 2016 RICHMOND – Wild Turkey Master Distillers and father-son duo Jimmy and Eddie Russell will offer samples of Wild Turkey bourbon and sign bottles from 3 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 29, at the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) stores in Leesburg and Manassas. After 60 years at the helm of Wild Turkey, Jimmy Russell—sometimes referred to as the “Buddha of bourbon”— is the longest-tenured, active master distiller in the world. His son, Eddie Russell, who joined the distillery in 1981 as the fourth generation of the Russell family to work at the Lawrenceburg, Ky., distillery, began as a relief operator before eventually joining his father as a master distiller. The pair collaborated to create Russell’s Reserve 10 Year Old, the distillery’s award-winning small batch bourbon. A year after being inducted into the Bourbon Hall of Fame in 2010, the younger Russell crafted the distillery’s 81 proof bourbon. Virginia ABC carries 15 different Wild Turkey products. Jimmy Russell will autograph bottles and offer samples at Virginia ABC’s premier store at 210 Fort Evans Road, N.E. in Leesburg. His son, Eddie, will sign bottles and offer samples of Wild Turkey products at Virginia ABC’s store located at 8095 Sudley Road in Westgate Plaza Shopping Center in Manassas.

VT: Marijuana legalization moves to Vermont House Burlington Free Press By Jess Aloe February 25, 2016 MONTPELIER -- S.241, which would allow adults to possess small amounts of recreational marijuana, is moving to the House. On Thursday, the Senate voted 17-12 to give final approval of the bill, following a 16-13 vote on Wednesday. Senators considered a number of amendments to the bill on Thursday. Sen. John Rodgers, D-Essex/Orleans, offered an amendment that would create more cultivator licenses than originally proposed. The cultivators will also be kept smaller. The change passed on a voice vote. Sen. Ginny Lyons, D-Chittenden, proposed delaying implementation, but Sen. Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, said the delay would pile up more expenses before revenue began rolling in. That amendment failed. Sen. Becca Balint, D-Windham, was the sole member to change her vote on the bill -- from no to yes. Balint said she supports marijuana legalization, but had problems with the bill because it doesn't allow Vermonters to grow their own marijuana. If the Rodgers amendment had failed, Balint said, she would have stuck to her no vote. The bill now moves on to the House, where it faces an uphill battle. Speaker of the House Shap Smith saidmoving the bill through the House "will take work." The House Judiciary Committee will be the first to take on S.241.

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PA: $100M in revenue boosters in Pa. Liquor Control Board's sights TribLive By Kari Andren February 25, 2016 State lawmakers grilled officials from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board on Thursday about how much more money could be wrung from the state-owned liquor system, while largely faulting themselves for not enacting laws to do so. LCB Chairman Tim Holden told the House Appropriations Committee the agency will turn over $100 million to the state this year in addition to the taxes it collects. He said the LCB could generate another $100 million annually if changes were made to the agency's operations, including: • Expanding Sunday sales. • Selling lottery tickets in 320 state stores. • Increasing license fees, which haven't risen in about 30 years. • Giving the agency more flexibility in buying products and setting prices. • Offering store coupons or a customer loyalty program. “It really doesn't make sense to be closed on the second-busiest shopping day,” Holden said about Sunday sales. Opening more stores on Sunday and for longer hours could increase revenue by about $15 million annually, he testified. By law, the LCB can open only 25 percent of its about 600 state stores on Sundays, and hours are limited to noon to 5 p.m. The LCB's proposals aren't new; the agency has been pleading for so-called modernization for years. Lawmakers typically have been unwilling to enact piecemeal changes while debating fully privatizing the system. “The changes that will create more revenue and convenience ... those changes aren't within the purview of the board. They're here in the legislature,” said Rep. Joe Markosek of Monroeville, the committee's ranking Democrat. “We have left a lot of money on the table. If we are not going to privatize — and that's been an extremely elusive item — then let's do the next best thing. Let's modernize the system.” Appropriations Chairman Bill Adolph, R-Delaware County, called the state's alcohol system, one of only two in the nation in which the state fully owns the wholesale and retail sale of wine and spirits, archaic. “We're all to blame. We need changes,” Adolph said. “This is certainly (like) Groundhog Day to me.” He told Holden, board member Michael Negra and LCB Executive Director John Metzger they aren't at fault for the lack of changes. “Employees of the LCB are not to blame,” Adolph said. “We (lawmakers and Gov. Tom Wolf) have to get together and develop a system that sells assets, that can become more valuable and improve our system.” LCB officials rebuffed lawmakers' efforts to engage in debate or speculation about privatizing the system.

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NABCA Daily News Update (2/26/2016) “If we're making a profit out of a state-run agency, I don't see the sense of privatizing it,” said Rep. Leslie Acosta, DPhiladelphia. “I know you don't want to go there.” House lawmakers have approved measures to privatize the state store system, but the Senate hasn't agreed to those proposals, so the issue hasn't made it to the governor's desk. Wolf proposed leasing the wholesale and retail operations of the LCB last fall as part of a working state budget compromise that never came to fruition, said Jeff Sheridan, spokesman for Wolf. He said Wolf believes the LCB is “an underperforming asset.” As part of the 2016-17 state budget, Wolf proposed creating a bipartisan working group to look at maximizing the profitability of the LCB and to assess the various proposals before the legislature, Sheridan said. “The governor will work to make strides in increasing customer convenience and revenue to the Commonwealth,” Sheridan said.

LICENSE STATE NEWS NJ: Supermarket liquor license bill sent to committee The Record By Joan Verdon, Staff Writer February 26, 2016 A bill to make it easier for supermarket chains in New Jersey to sell alcoholic beverages has been sent to the Assembly Regulatory Oversight Committee, and its sponsor is hopeful the committee will act on it soon. Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald, D-Camden, the primary sponsor of the legislation, has been trying since 2007 to ease the state’s restriction that limits corporations to only two liquor licenses in the state. That restriction has meant that supermarket chains such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, which typically sell wine, beer and other alcohol in their stores, can have liquor departments in only two of their New Jersey stores. Greenwald said Thursday that he believes the measure has been gaining support from other legislators, and he expects the committee to consider the bill next month. The legislation has gained support from Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter, D-Paterson, and Assemblywoman L. Grace Spencer, D-Newark, who are co-sponsors of the legislation. Greenwald said Sumter and Spencer understand the need to encourage supermarket development, particularly in urban areas. "These are people that obviously live in cities that struggle with this issue," he said. While the Legislature has failed to act on the legislation in previous sessions, supporters say momentum is growing. "I think you just keep acquiring support one by one from [legislators] around the state," Greenwald said. The Greenwald measure, A-1727, would allow supermarket chains to gradually increase the number of stores where they can sell alcohol to 10, up from the current limit of two. Only stores that primarily sell food would be eligible under the proposal. Costco and other warehouse stores, and mass merchants such as Walmart or Target that also sell food, would be excluded. A coalition of supermarkets, Retailers for Responsible Liquor Licensing, which includes Stop & Shop, Acme, Kings and Whole Foods, is lobbying for the bill. Supporters of the legislation say that New Jersey residents want the

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NABCA Daily News Update (2/26/2016) convenience of buying beer, wine and spirits at supermarkets, and that the change will make the state more competitive and encourage development. The New Jersey Liquor Store Alliance opposes the measure, saying it would help large chains put local liquor store owners out of business.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Canada: B.C. introduces minimum pricing for alcohol Vancouver Sun By Bethany Lindsay February 25, 2016 B.C.’s new minimum price structure for alcohol is a good step toward protecting public health, but it also helps defend existing liquor stores from new competition, according to an addictions researcher. The new rules will set minimum prices for each type of liquor at both private and government stores and will go into effect on May 1. A 750 mL bottle of wine, for example, won’t be priced at less than $4.83 before taxes, while a six-pack of beer cans must be listed above $6.79. “This is to help ensure that liquor is not sold at prices that may encourage the abuse or overconsumption of alcohol, and establishes a baseline to ensure that prices remain at appropriate levels with a view to public health and safety,” Bill Anderson, a spokesman for the Ministry of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, wrote in an email. On a practical level, the new minimum prices will prevent private liquor stores from developing a niche market in the cheap sherry and high-strength beers favoured by many problem drinkers, according to Tim Stockwell, a University of Victoria psychologist and director of the Centre for Addiction Research of B.C. “If one takes the view that having very, very cheap, high-strength alcohol available in the community causes problems, which is a view that I have … then it’s a positive thing,” Stockwell said. It also means that government liquor stores won’t be able to offer deep discounts on unpopular products, so drinkers with odd tastes will no longer be able to buy that glazed-doughnut liqueur at 50-per-cent of the recommended sale price. “That, I’m sure, is only done on health grounds, because it’s not so good for revenue,” Stockwell said. The pricing structure is also a safeguard against competition from grocery stores now that they are allowed to sell alcohol, he added. Large chains are able to buy in bulk and sell with very thin profit margins, making it difficult for smaller stores and government outlets to compete. “It’s a sort of pre-emptive strike,” Stockwell said. Private liquor stores are also welcoming the new minimum prices as a good way of preventing grocery stores from using alcohol as a loss leader. Jeff Guignard, executive director of the Alliance of Beverage Licensees, said he had absolutely no concerns about the pricing structure.

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NABCA Daily News Update (2/26/2016) “As of May 2, when a B.C. consumer walks into a store, are they going to pay any more? No. 99.9 per cent of products are going to be the same price they are now,” he said. As of May 1, the minimum liquor prices (excluding sales taxes) at government and private liquor stores will be: . Beer: $3.19/L, or $6.79 for a six-pack of cans . Keg beer: $1.97/L, or $115.64 for a 58.7 L keg . Wine: $6.44/L, or $4.83 for a 750 mL bottle . Cider and coolers: $3.75/L, or $7.50 for a 2L bottle . Spirits: $27.88/L, or $20.91 for a 750 mL bottle . Liqueurs: $20.39/L, or $15.29 for a 750 mL bottle

United Kingdom: London rolls out ‘sobriety tags’

A pilot scheme that involves tagging people who have committed alcohol-related offences in order to ensure they stay sober has been rolled out across London. Local Gov By Austin Macauley February 26, 2016 The trial of ‘sobriety tags’, which monitor a person’s alcohol intake, proved to be successful in 92% of cases. Some 113 alcohol abstinence requirement orders were made by courts during the first year of the scheme, with offenders being required to stay sober for 120 days. The ankle bracelets measure the level of alcohol in an offender’s perspiration and those found to be breaking their abstinence orders can face further sanctions. It is estimated that alcohol-related crime costs up to £13bn a year. Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: ‘Alcohol-fuelled crimes put a huge strain on frontline services, costing the taxpayer billions of pounds each year. ‘From assault, to drink-driving, to theft and criminal damage, this innovative technology is driving down reoffending and proving rehabilitation does not have to mean prison. ‘After such a success in South London, it’s time to roll out these tags to the rest of the capital and rid our streets of these crimes, by helping even more offenders stay off the booze and get back on the right track.’

United Kingdom: Hospitality industry joins calls for whisky tax reduction Press and Journal By Mark Lammey February 25, 2016 UNITED KINGDOM - The hospitality industry has added its voice to calls from whisky chiefs for a cut to Scotch excise duties in next month’s Budget.

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NABCA Daily News Update (2/26/2016) The UK Government made its first reduction to spirits duty in almost 20 years last March and the Scottish Whisky Association (SWA) has been calling for another 2% drop this time around. Late last year it produced a survey showing 90% of Scottish respondents felt the 76% tax levied on bottles of whisky was unfair. The British Hospitality Association’s Scottish arm threw its weight behind the campaign yesterday, saying another cut would ease cost pressures on the sector and allow its members to compete with global rivals. Willie Macleod, executive director of the BHA in Scotland, said: “A 2% cut in excise on Scotch whisky, and other categories of alcohol, would help ease some of the pressures on the hospitality sector. “We operate in a competitive global market-place in which our customers are already paying high levels of tax, including the highest rates of VAT on hotel accommodation in Europe. “A reduction in alcohol excise duty would show that the UK government realises it needs to support our hospitality industry and the employment it creates.” SWA chief executive David Frost said: “By supporting Scotch whisky in next month’s Budget, the UK Government can bolster jobs, local communities and great British pubs across the UK, as well as benefit the Treasury. “Last year’s spirits duty cut actually helped boost tax receipts on spirits by £96million between April and December, compared to the same period in 2014. We’re calling on Chancellor George Osborne to stand up for scotch again this year.”

INDUSTRY NEWS Hard soda category gets even more crowded CNBC By Tom Rotunno February 25, 2016 The hard soda trend shows no signs of going flat. The Seagram's brand is the latest entrant in this booming category. A line of Seagram's Hard Sodas that feature Cherry Cola, Grape Soda, Lemon n' Lime and Orange Cream will be produced at High Falls Brewery in Rochester, New York, which is a part of the North American Breweries family. Anheuser-Busch also unveiled a new flavor for its hard soda line: Best Damn Cherry Cola. Cherry will be the second national offering from the Best Damn Brewing Co, which Anheuser-Busch created with the release of its Best Damn Root Beer in December. The latest hard soda announcements build on a trend that began last June with the national release of Not Your Father's Root Beer by Small Town Brewing. That brand went on to sell more than $75 million by year's end, according to market research group IRI. Many others quickly entered the marketplace, including Boston Beer's Coney Island Brewing brand; MillerCoors' Henry's Hard Soda line, which debuted in January; and Anheuser-Busch's Best Damn Root Beer. While Anheuser-Busch InBev didn't specifically mention the Hard Soda category in its fourth-quarter results, it did highlight one of its four strategic priorities as being "developing the near-beer segment."

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NABCA Daily News Update (2/26/2016) "We are competing more effectively for share of total alcohol by launching innovative products that offer malt beverage alternatives to wine and hard liquor," the company said. While many of alcoholic root beers drape themselves in the cloak of craft brewing, they and other hard soda variants like Ginger Ale and Orange Soda, as well as other flavored malt beverage brands like Anheuser-Busch InBev's MixxTail, MillerCoors Redd's and Boston Beer's Twisted Tea brands reflect brewers' desire to capture the evolving tastes of alcohol drinkers, who continue to seek out options beyond the beer category. According to the latest figures from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, beer remains the leader in alcoholic beverage market share, but distilled spirits have gained market share, while beer has declined for six straight years.

Suntory Bolsters Strategy With Spirits Shake Up The Spirits Business By Amy Hopkins February 26, 2016 Japanese drinks group Suntory Holdings has reorganised its spirits arm to “strengthen mid- and long-term strategy”. Suntory Spirits Limited’s Business Planning Department will be reorganised, with the creation of the Business Strategy Planning Department and a new Business Planning Department. The unit’s Whisky Brand Department and Imported Liquor Marketing Department will be integrated into the new Whisky / Imported Liquor Marketing Department, with the aim of enhancing marketing efforts. In addition, a new International Strategy Department will be established to expand Suntory’s Whisky Strategy Department and “bolster global strategy”. Suntory Spirits, maker of Hibiki Japanese whisky, has also appointed Nobuhiro Torii and Yasuhiko Kamada to its executive board. The organisational changes will come into effect on 1 April and will only affect brands sold under Japan-based Suntory Spirits. Beam Suntory – created following Suntory’s US$16bn acquisition of US group Beam Inc – operates as a standalone entity. Earlier this year, Suntory confirmed plans to significantly expand its ageing capacity for Japanese whisky amid reports of stock shortages across the sector.

German beer purity in question after environment group finds weed-killer traces Reuters By Caroline Copley February 25, 2016 A German environmental group said on Thursday it has found traces of the widely used weed-killer ingredient glyphosate in Germany's 14 most popular beers, a potential blow to the country's reputation for "pure" brewing. Industry and government immediately sought to play down the report from the Munich Environmental Institute.

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NABCA Daily News Update (2/26/2016) The Brauer-Bund beer association said the findings, which were based on a small number of samples, were not credible. Germany's Federal Institute for Risk assessment said the levels did not pose a risk to consumers' health. "An adult would have to drink around 1,000 liters (264 U.S. gallons) of beer a day to ingest enough quantities to be harmful for health," it said in a statement. Under the "Reinheitsgebot", or German purity law - one of the world's oldest food safety laws and celebrating its 500th anniversary this year - brewers have to produce beer using only malt, hops, yeast and water. Glyphosate was brought into global use by Monsanto in the 1970s and is used in its top-selling product Roundup as well as many other herbicides around the world. The environmental group, an investigative body, said it had tested Germany's 14 top-selling beer brands and said all showed traces above the 0.1 microgram limit allowed in drinking water. It added that no general conclusions about the contamination of certain brands of beer could be made. Brauer-Bund said there were government controls in place in breweries to ensure that no harmful substances made their way into the production process. Its own monitoring system for malt has never detected levels of glyphosate that were above the permitted maximum limits, it added. Hasseroeder, a beer brewed in Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany and owned by Anheuser Busch Inbev, contained the highest trace of glyphosate at 29.74 micrograms per liter, the institute said. The smallest amount, 0.46 micrograms per liter, was found in Augustiner, made in Munich. Anheuser-Busch InBev said it questioned the scientific integrity of the tests due to the small number of samples. It d rejected the institute's allegation that brewers were not adequately monitoring raw ingredients as "absurd and completely unfounded." European Union regulators are currently reviewing whether to renew approval for glyphosate. The World Health Organization's cancer research committee has said glyphosate was probably carcinogenic to humans, but the European Food Safety Authority has said it is unlikely to cause cancer. Germany is Europe's biggest producer of beer and is home to more than 1,300 breweries which produce about 5,000 different beers.

Small Beer Distributors Being Trampled by Big Box Stores Small Biz Trends By David William February 25, 2016 New York’s beer market may be large enough to accommodate all the local industry players, but the big money is going to big box stores like Costco and BJ’s at the expense of smaller independent distributors. According to an article published in Crain’s New York Business last month, the trade group for independent beer distributors in New York hired an investigator to look into the mega-stores and see if they are circumventing the system, undercutting them and stealing their bodega business. Big box stores and chains are not supposed to sell beer to people who would later resell the beer to their customers.

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NABCA Daily News Update (2/26/2016) New York’s Mandatory Three-tier Beer Distribution System Beer in New York — and in most states — is distributed through a mandated three-tier system: brewers, distributors and retailers. The state of New York outlawed bars or retail outlets that are supplied directly by a brewery to discourage raucous saloons that are backed by big suppliers. Now breweries sell to wholesalers like Manhattan Beer Distributors, the largest beer wholesaler in New York, which then sells to retail stores, bars, bodegas and sometimes to smaller distributors. Independent beer distributors also move wholesale beer around the city to neighborhood warehouses, where local bodegas and shops can pick up the six-packs. The investigator hired by New York’s independent beer distributors bought beer at Costco Wholesale using the bodegas’ memberships and captured the sales on video, proving bodegas top up at Costco. The reason bodegas and other small shops get their beer at big box stores is simple: it’s much cheaper than wholesale beer. KelSo Brewery in Brooklyn, for example, sells a Pilsner six-pack to a wholesaler for about $5.50, according to founder Kelly Taylor. The wholesaler sells the six-pack to retailers for $7.50, and retailers mark up the price by about a 40 percent margin. Factoring costs like delivery fees and excise taxes, a six-pack that costs $7 wholesale quickly edges up to $11 or $12. All the while, big box stores sometimes sell retail beer at a mere 6 percent margin. Why Big Box Stores Can Afford to Sell Beer at a Cheaper Price The main reasons big warehouse stores can sell beer cheaper is because they are part of huge companies that buy in bulk for one delivery and can thus negotiate huge discounts, and also because they sell so many other retail goods, while independent distributors mostly only sell beer. Moreover, unloading a Coors Light beer truck at a big box store off the interstate highway costs a lot less than making five stops in midtown traffic, something often necessary to supply independent distributors. “We found that these big box stores weren’t even bothering to check, and simply allowed retailers to use their business membership to purchase beer,” one distributor, Paul Gagliardi, owner of Flair Beverages located at Ninth Avenue in Inwood, told Crain’s. “Every single illegal sale that they made to a retailer hurt an independent beer distributor licensed to wholesale beer to retailers.” The distributors sent footage of their investigator buying beer at Costco to the State Liquor Authority and made a formal complaint. The State Liquor Authority, upon receiving a formal complaint, is said to have worked out agreements last May with big box stores requiring them to hang a “not for resale” sign at their beer displays. In return for honoring the agreements, the agency dropped previous cases against the bulk retail stores. Whereas cases against big box stores were dropped, Jacqueline Flug, the authority’s general counsel, said bodega and small shop owners are “pretty frequently” fined for reselling beer bought at retail. Fines range from $2,000 to $10,000.

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NABCA Daily News Update (2/26/2016) It’s not easy to prosecute bulk retailers because they are subject to a higher standard of proof, said Flug. “There’s a burden of knowledge there … that you knowingly sold the product to a retail licensee,” she said. “For a retail licensee, I don’t have to prove that they didn’t know.” Independent distributors who were not aware of the arrangements until they asked for records of their complaint, are outraged. They say they are being trampled by big box stores and authorities who favor the bulk retailers. And they want tougher enforcement on wholesalers. “This is a fight for small business survival,” Edward Perez of the trade group Empire State Beer Distributors said. The distributors have called on Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, to push state legislation that would require wholesalers to post prices, effectively forcing them to sell at the same prices to everyone rather than cut deals with bulk retailers.

EDUCATION NEWS Penn State considering limited alcohol use at sporting events, concerts Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Bill Schackner February 26, 2016 Penn State University leaders Thursday proposed permitting limited alcohol consumption in suites, club seats and reception areas during intercollegiate athletic events and venue-wide during non-intercollegiate events including concerts and professional sports. Administrators presented the idea to the Penn State board of trustees Committee on Legal and Compliance during an informational meeting Thursday in Hershey. The full board of trustees is expected to take up the proposed policy change in May. Sales during intercollegiate athletic contests would be in “private, controllable spaces” and “is not being considered for general seating areas, including student sections,” the university said in a statement. Alcohol would be sold throughout athletic facilities during non-intercollegiate athletic events, officials said. The new policy would also apply to Penn State Golf Courses. “For attracting top performing acts to our venues and in hosting major sporting events beyond the college level, it is common practice to permit the sale of alcohol,” David Gray, senior vice president for finance and business, said in a statement issued by the university. “Our venues are at a disadvantage in gaining the sign-on of such attractions, and it is possible to have alcohol served in a safe and responsible manner.” Penn State said it checked with other venues nationally and concluded alcohol can be safely consumed at events using professionals. “The plan is to have certified servers in these areas who also are trained in intervention,” the school’s statement said. Should the full board approve the proposal, implementation would not occur immediately, officials said. A projected date was not offered. Last year, Penn State experimented with serving alcohol during a Garth Brooks concert in the Bryce Jordan Center. The university said it relied on strict security and on professionals who enforced per-person drink limits. “The multiple shows that Brooks performed at the [center] resulted in fewer police incidents than other similar acts where alcohol was not served,” the university stated.

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University of Alabama student starts petition seeking repeal of SEC's game day alcohol prohibition AL.com By Erin Edgemon February 25, 2016 A candidate for University of Alabama's student government association president is seeking to have the SEC's game day prohibition of alcohol sales repealed. Patrick Fitzgerald, a junior marketing major, said his Change.org petition and promotional video isn't about winning votes. It's primarily about student safety. "Too many times in my college career, I've walked past the tents on the quad on the way to the stadium and seen students passed out in their chairs," Fitzgerald wrote. "Alcohol is a part of many students' gameday experience, but because alcohol is not sold in Bryant-Denny and other athletic facilities, students feel the need to binge drink before games." Making alcohol sales legal, would put students in less dangerous situations, he said. "It is an issue that a lot of people are passionate about on campus," Fitzgerald said. He is also trying to garner support from SGA presidents of other SEC universities. If the SEC changed its policy, Fitzgerald said it would mean less gameday arrests as well. He said West Virginia University saw its gameday arrest rate decrease 35 percent after repealing its ban on alcohol. Permitting alcohol sales at Bryant-Denny Stadium would be "a huge revenue booster," Fitzgerald said. It could also drive attendance to other sporting events on campus. Alabama's stadium is similar in size to the University of Texas at Austin stadium where alcohol sales garnered $1.8 million in revenues last year, he said. Many student services are in need of these revenues, Fitzgerald said. He also pointed out that alcohol is already allowed in Bryant-Denny's luxury boxes so why not make it available for purchase.

DAILY NEWS Canadian Temperance posters (c. 1912)

Explaining the dangers of booze, with science and Shakespeare Mashable By Alex Q. Arbuckle February 26, 2016 The Temperance Movement, which advocated against excessive consumption of alcohol, first emerged in organized form in the early 19th century in England and the United States.

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NABCA Daily News Update (2/26/2016) Though it was initially concerned mostly with the moral effects of heavy consumption of spirits, as the movement grew it began to advocate more radical teetotalism — complete abstinence from any alcohol, and even its prohibition by law. Alcohol was curtailed in England by legislation in 1914, and ratification of the 18th Amendment in 1919 completely prohibited alcohol in the United States. In Canada, prohibition legislation was passed by individual provinces. These posters outlining the evils of drink were circulated in Alberta, which outlawed alcohol in 1916, but allowed it to be sold again in government stores after a plebiscite in 1923. Note: The veracity of the facts on these posters may be outdated and of questionable accuracy by today's standards. Visit website to view posters: http://mashable.com/2016/02/26/canadian-temperance-posters/#PA8WPMc6skqh

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