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National prohibition didn't ban the sale of all drinks containing alcohol, so again by your "reasoning" (chortle), Prohibition wasn't prohibition.
Oh, very Orwellian of you too.
However, prohibition was prohibition, not just limited in scope like your hypothetical situation was.
SEC. 3. No person shall on or after the date when the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States goes into effect, manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized in this Act, and all the provisions of this shall be liberally construed to the end that---the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage may be prevented.
Liquor. . . . for nonbeverage purposes and wine for sacramental purposes may be manufactured, purchased. sold, bartered, transported, imported, exported, delivered furnished and possessed, but only as herein provided, and the commissioner may, upon application, issue permits therefor. . . . Provided, That nothing in this Act shall prohibit the purchase and sale of warehouse receipts covering distilled spirits on deposit in Government bonded warehouses, and no special tax liability shall attach to the business of purchasing and selling such warehouse receipts. . . .
By your "reasoning" (chortle) limiting the sales of only "certain types of liquor", not all liquors, is a prohibition. Of course, you've got to narrow down your definition of prohibition first, don't you.
There is that "except as authorized in this Act" part that just suits you.
And thanks for the picture of you, but it wasn't necessary.