Pennsylvania Does Not Want You To Buy A Keg

Allow us to delve into politics beyond the Penn bubble for a moment, as this one may affect you.

In case you haven't noticed, Pennsylvania is a little wacky on liquor laws. The BYOB's, the shady state-run liquor stores, the lack of beer in supermarkets, and so on.

In any event, here's the story: PA Senator John Rafferty and his peeps have been researching boozy issues, and they've found that underage folk are purchasing beer in large quantities (i.e. kegs and cases rather than six-packs) from beer distributors. They believe part of the reason may be that six-packs aren't sold in supermarkets, so youngins are more likely to call up University City Beverage and the like. We tend to think that young people also just enjoy kegs. Obviously, this reported excessive purchasing of kegs does not please the politicians.

So...in short, there's talk of passing some legislation to loosen liquor laws, which would allow small quantities of beer to be sold in supermarkets.