WTF! When I was a drinker, and had the occasion to drink a warm beer, for whatever reason, I always got a buzz faster from it. What about bars? Guess I wil be honest here, I have a DUI in my past, and it didn’t come from a six pack bought at the mini-mart. I don’t have stats to back this, but I would say a fairly large number of DUI’s come from people hitting the road at closing time. I agree with whoever said that this ridiculous law will only inconvenience the law abiding citizen. I suspect a good majority of people who get a DUI are repeat offenders who simply finally got caught, and a warm six pack isn’t going to slow them down a bit. It will only serve to piss off the “Average Joe” who wants a cold one when he gets home from a hard days work, and will now have to wait an hour after getting home to chill it.
Sure would help the sale of CO[sup]2[/sup] fire extinguishers.
Ah, yes, Latecomer, but, in the interest of prevening Pennsylvania’s poor, helpless citizens from becoming raving alcoholics, our fair state has also made it illegal to buy just one beer, as a friend of mine who was making beer bread found out. For those living in civilization, you can only buy beer from a beer distributor or a bar and the minimum quantity they can sell you at a bar is a six pack.
This really is ridiculously stupid and ineffective. I’m not even entirely sure what effect it’s supposed to have. There’s been a commercial during football games featuring someone making a “beer run” at top speed to buy a six pack from a convenience store and get back before the next play. I wonder if the Senator’s seen that ad too many times?
Hopefully, this bill will die the quick death it deserves.
CJ
You saw that episode of Mythbusters too, eh? 
For those who are subject to the law, and who didn’t see the show (or folks who just want to chill a beer or other canned beverage quickly), a CO[sup]2[/sup] fire extinguisher will chill a beer from room temperature to approximately 38 degrees in less than a minute (I forget the actual figure, but I think it was on the order of 20 seconds or so).
Going a more conventional route, if you take a cooler full of ice (and beer) and add water and a generous helping of salt, it will cool the beer to an acceptable temp. in five minutes. Ice and water only I think took 10 or 15, while their other tests of just ice, the freezer and the refrigerator took longer.
I forsee a lot of dorm fire extinguishers disappearing in the near future.
Yes, and when you go to the beer distributor because you don’t want to pay 10$ for a six pack of Bud at a bar you will find that, in order to discourage binge drinking, the minimum amount of beer you can buy at the beer distributor is a case.
Can’t speak about Pennsylvania, but in Seattle, there are neighborhoods which are considered “Alcohol Impact Areas”, and there are restrictions on the types of alcoholic drinks that can be sold and when. The idea is to make it hard for the homeless drunks to get the drinks that they usually can afford to buy, i.e. fortified wines and single servings of beer.
Here’s an article about it.
It’s a good idea, at least in theory. In some parts of the city, the streets run yellow with homeless drunk piss, so I’m not sure how effective it’s been.
Because six (or even three) homeless people would never get the idea of pooling their money, buying a six-pack and splitting it up.
Back to the drawring board. 
I’m curious whether there are statistics to back this up, or whether this is a “gut feeling” that is being proposed as a given?
I’ve been an inspector on a lot of construction projects, and I can bear witness that the first stop for a truckload of laborers at the end of the day on a Friday afternoon is usually the package store. If this law passed in my state, they wouldn’t dream of bringing a sixpack or a case on ice back to the construction site after Friday lunch; it would cost them their jobs if they were caught. I also don’t know whether the driver was drinking, or just his passengers. Cold beer could be leading to at least some cases of drinking and driving, but I have never heard that there were DUIs or accidents with those construction workers, so my limited experience wouldn’t support statistics. My guess is that those guys kept to moderate consumption.
Unless this can be documented to lower incidences of drunk driving and accidents, I’d say that it would be foolish to try to get this passed. I deplore that there are those who drink and drive, but this is just one of those laws that will piss people off, and with very little to gain.
[hijack]I like neckties, and my favorite brand is Stonehenge. One of their lines supports MADD with every purchase. The name of the line is “Cocktail Colors”. :dubious: I wonder what they were thinking…[/hijack]
Haven’t you wondered why they’ve been making all those improvements to Route 15? It’s for beer runs, obviously.
Why would you ever buy less than a case at a time? That’s like buying a half-roll of toilet paper.
Just as I’m reading this the Bud Light “Don’t store beer in heat” commercial with the dude who played Lo-Pan came on. Maybe this Senator needs to be drug behind a horse while pouring beer into a glass.
I think we should make that a requirement for all elected officials.
In fact, forget the beer-pouring.
And if anyone gets affected by this, these are great.
I was in Indiana a couple of years ago and they had this stupid law. I was staying at a motel way off in the suburbs and had to chill my beer in the ice bucket.
They even have a tailgater model with a plug that goes into your car lighter. Uh-oh, how long until these are banned, too? :rolleyes:
Oh, those crafty, crafty bums! What will they think of next?
~Mang
PS: Thank God for Pennsylvania. Now that SC’s gone freepour, we aren’t the state with the worst alcohol laws anymore!
Of course you don’t want to store beer that’s in heat! Let it outside to mate with other beers, and soon you’ll enjoy a litter of microbrews.