Posted on 10/29/2005 11:04:48 AM PDT by seacapn
HARTFORD, Conn. --A constitutional battle is brewing over a holiday beer that state officials are trying to ban because they say its label might entice children to drink.
The state believes it would be really awful for kids to see the label on the British import Seriously Bad Elf.
It shows a mean-looking elf with a slingshot firing Christmas ornaments at Santa's sleigh as it flies overhead.
State liquor regulations bar alcohol advertising with images that might appeal to children. The regulations specifically mention Santa.
"There are certain symbols and images that appeal more strongly to children and this regulation includes the most obvious among them," Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said. "The state has wide discretion to regulate the sales of alcohol."
The state Liquor Control Division notified Massachusetts-based Shelton Brothers distributors that it was rejecting its application to sell the beer, a bitter winter ale brewed at the Ridgeway Brewery in England.
Dan Shelton cried foul. After all, his company had no such problems when it sold Bad Elf and Very Bad Elf in previous years. It sells the beer in 30 other states and none have complained.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
How about that one who they call the Hildabeast from New York? Guess she is history too?????
Verboden Vrucht (Forbidden Fruit) is a Belgian wheat ale with a Rubens painting of Adam and Eve, suitably clad. They have beers instead of apples.
http://www.brewpalace.com/Images/Beer/Hoegarden-DeVerbodenVrucht.jpg
I wonder what he thinks about the Hamm's bear.
LOL! I've only made labels one time. I photoshopped a Sam Adams label and put my head on Sam's body and named it Steinerweizen on the label. I wish I'd of saved that.
Many of Connecuticut's fine Citizens call him a Dick.
Sometimes I brew late at night whe the kids are in bed. I brew in my backyard on our patio. I live up in the mountains in a VERY rural hacienda type of structure...no heat except fireplaces, no AC and NO GARAGE!
Anyhow around midnight, it's just me and our 5 dogs...
I was brewing a partial mash Belgian amber and at the start of the boil the wind kicked up something fierce. I mean Santa Ana's that make the news. I covered the pot about 3/4 to try to keep out any windborne junk...
Not until I racked to the secondary did I notice the short black lab hairs floating in my beer! They hairs must have blown in during the boil. The beer tasted fine so I assume they were sterilized! I have to waste a batch of beer so....I strained through a cheesecloth and bottled.
3 months later and the beer's aging well. The first bottle was just fine, no off tastes at all.
Oh....I named it "Hairs of the Dogs Belgian Amber"
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Nice story. I do my brewing indoors, which hasn't always prevented stray items from making their way into the wort. Once I found a penny at the bottom of the primary mixed in with the yeast sediment. I think I called that batch "Abe Lincoln Ale"
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