If Monk's Cafe Sour Flemish Red Ale is outlawed only outlaws will drink Monk's Cafe Sour Flemish Red Ale
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 07:03PM The PLCB gets real anal:
More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections. The cops confiscated hundreds of bottles of expensive ales and lagers, now in State Police custody at an undisclosed location.
The alleged offense: Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state Liquor Control Board - a process that requires the brewers or their importers to pay a $75 registration fee for each product they want to sell in Pennsylvania.....
For instance, the cops grabbed Monk's Cafe Sour Flemish Red Ale.
The beer has been sold throughout the state at dozens of restaurants and distributors for the last seven years. The brand appears on the state's online list as "Monk's Café Ale." It's on tap seven days a week at the Center City bar after which it was named: Monk's Cafe, at 16th and Spruce streets.
But that wasn't enough to keep the State Police from confiscating 20 bottles and three kegs of the supposedly illegal ale at three bars run by Maida and Hartranft.
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There was a comedy movie called "Super Troopers" a few years back about the shenanigans of a group of inept, incompetent, screwballs in the Vermont State Police. Who knew that the writers for that movie probably got their ideas from the Pennsylvania State Police?