No beer, no boobs....

[First Lady]

Now that I have your attention...

The AGLC seems to be on a bit of "mother knows best" kick lately.

Regarding burlesque = strippers.

http://www.calgarysun.com/news/colum.../16347701.html

And no high alcohol content beer.

http://www.ffwdweekly.com/calgary-bl...ohol-beer-591/

[Beerfest]

I dont drink 11.9 percent beer, but as the article says why ban it? Rum, Vodka, Wine, etc have higher percentages, what a joke..

I might have to try some of these beers though.

[Super-Rye]

I fail to see where AGLC gets the right to tell me what I look at or what I drink.

AGLC has become so out of date these days. They do nothing but scream loud and inflate prices.

[Cain]

Outrageous. Simply outrageous. Why? What possible impetus do they have?

People who drink these beers are usually not those that are a problem and are far from a majority of people anyway. Absolutely ridiculous. As a beer enthusiast who drinks beer that is routinely around this percentage I am pissed (not in the inebriated sense. yet).

[SeeBass]

wha ticks me off more is I wrote to the person at the AGLC only to find out the email is wrong in the article

[valo403]

It's this kind of BS that makes me really happy to not live in Calgary anymore. Of all the places I've lived it seems like bureaucratic common sense is most lacking in Alberta.

[octothorp]

A socially libertarian premier is sounding better and better all the time.

[LGA]

Good old AGLC, if they had their way, everyone would walk into bars/pubs/what-have-yous and would have absolutely no contact with other people and liquor would be 0.00005%.

[Blaster86]

Ha. Ha. Your Province is boring and full of old prudes!

[MaDMaN_26]

Originally Posted by valo403

It's this kind of BS that makes me really happy to not live in Calgary anymore. Of all the places I've lived it seems like bureaucratic common sense is most lacking in Alberta.

My personal favourite was the banning of smoking on patios, not in bars... just outside. I had friends visit from out of province that year during the summer... I still think part of them believes we were pulling their leg. How we got everyone they asked to be in on the joke was just superb planning on my part.

[Traditional_Ale]

I've seen my share of burlesque and everything I've seen locally was pretty 'meh'. For some reason it just seems like angry girls who have no other talents than shopping and taking their clothes off suddenly get to have an art-form? Last time I checked being angry, shopping, and stripping isn't artistic.

The only real difference between a slutty stripper and a burlesque performer is that the former makes you think they want to be your whore, while the latter seems to dare you to think you'd ever have a chance of getting with them.

[llama64]

The frustrating part about the AGLC is that the public has absolutely no influence over them at all.

Just a bunch of pretentious dinks making up rules that we have to suffer under.

The only reason I can guess at why they decided to ban high alcohol beer is that they wanted to curb binge drinking... but who in their right mind is going to drink a lot of high alcohol beer? Seriously - it's a sipping drink at that point. And it's cheaper to get blitzed off of other products.

If they even look at banning scotch... ANGRY LLAMA SPIT FORCE ONE

[Flames Draft Watcher]

How conservative of Alberta. Too bad for those of us that aren't particularly conservative.

[theonlywhiteout]

the aglc... another example of tyranny thru government and self righteous morale do-gooders trying to impose 'decency' on others.

[calumniate]

maudite is as high as I like to go anyway - about 8% alcohol.

and yeah most of these high alcohol beers are specialty beers that only the high brow tend to buy. If they made 12% lucky i'd imagine that would be a problem. what a bunch of ######s.

[Joborule]

Gotta love the Alberta government.

[Cain]

Originally Posted by calumniate

maudite is as high as I like to go anyway - about 8% alcohol.

and yeah most of these high alcohol beers are specialty beers that only the high brow tend to buy. If they made 12% lucky i'd imagine that would be a problem. what a bunch of ######s.

Most of my favorite beers hover around the 10-11% mark, dangerously close. I love the strong belgian dark ales.

The problem with this is that I actually like to try the beers that I see that I have not yet tried. I recently tried a 17.5% and 15% beer. They were actually quite good. Not something that I would buy routinely (or again probably in those two cases) but I like having the option. It is hard enough for companies to import their alcoholic products to canada, why are we making this worse?

Makes me angry, as I cannot see a possible reason for this to be pass. At all. These beers are never sold at establishments, so people aren't going out to bars and getting hammered on them, they are only really sold for personal use, where people try them out at home with friends. And as said earlier, there are obvious and much cheaper things to buy if one simply wants to get plastered. So ridiculous. If anyone does find the proper email, I would write an angry long one....for probably the first time ever.

[Dion]

Control Freak of The Year Award - Work Trophy

Recognise those 'special' people at work with our prestigious work trophies. Time to officially reward your co-workers for their consistently annoying behavior!

[DuffMan]

The winter Olympics in 88 was the turning point for when the fun ended at strippers. Before then, there was dancer/customer interaction, props used in a sexual manner, and duos and more that could and did get within a meter of each other. I really lost interest shortly after that. All those rules were put in when the Olympics came to town. Hard to believe it was that long ago.

[driveway]

All of my experiences with the AGLC have been negative. I find that the people who work there are people who honestly believe that alcohol is a societal evil that ideally would be done away with.

People who work with booze should DRINK freaking booze.