[beowulf7]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

Shiner has more flavor and character than coors or A-B or Miller combined..........

I agree. On the topic of A-B, once InBev finishes acquiring them, will a Budweiser be considered as an import beer? Yes, it'll still be brewed in the USA, but the parent company will be located overseas.

[lktadlock]

I just moved here to Tahlequah from Oregon, and was very disappointed when my husband brought home weak beer. Could not believe how different the laws were. now i just have my husband bring me beer from texas when hes down that way.

[beowulf7]

Originally Posted by lktadlock

I just moved here to Tahlequah from Oregon, and was very disappointed when my husband brought home weak beer. Could not believe how different the laws were. now i just have my husband bring me beer from texas when hes down that way.

Good thing TX is an adjacent state. Hopefully, you're not too deep into OK w/ respect to TX.

[Bobby H]

Just adding my own 2¢ on the topic.

I agree with others who say the weak beer laws in Oklahoma are pretty stupid.

And I can't make sense of the county by county or town by town craziness going on in Texas. It's dizzying.

I've seen some odd things in other states. When visiting Colorado recently, I was in a Wal-Mart SuperCenter grocery store that had most of its import beer in completely non-alcoholic form. Hardly any of the liquor stores in the Colorado Springs area had a decent selection of import and domestic micro-brew beers. I wanted a six-pack of Left Hand Brewing Company's Jackman's American Pale Ale -brewed in Longmont, CO. Nobody heard of it! Meanwhile, a couple big liquor stores in Lawton carry the Left Hand and Flying Dog brands of Colorado beer. More than just that "banquet beer" junk come from Colorado.

Originally Posted by beowulf

On the beer can, there's no indication that the beer is watered down.

Any strong beer sold in Oklahoma will have "OK+" listed on the label somewhere. Many import beers will have that little "OK+" thing on the bottle or can regardless of where it is sold.

Liquor stores can sell "OK+" beer as long as it is not sold in refrigerated form.

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

weak beer won't guarantee sobriety but it helps.

A few years ago a study was released showing 3.2% beers have the opposite effect of what the law intended. Weak beer actually encourages a greater degree of binge drinking.

I'm wondering if it may encourage more "buzzed driving." The weak beer can make the transition from being completely sober to being above the legal driving limit more gradual and harder for the drinker to detect. The drinker may down 3 or 4 weak beers, not feel like he is feeling any effect from it and then just happily get behind the steering wheel of his vehicle.

Originally Posted by okcpulse

The reason you cannot buy major domestic beer at Oklahoma liquor stores is because Budweiser, Coors and Miller all have a moratorium against Oklahoma regarding 5% beer.

The way I see it, that's the loss of Budweiser, Coors and Miller. They're not getting any of my beer-drinking money. Their beer is a bland, watery joke. I suppose I can down a bunch of the stuff if I want to give my bladder a workout.

I prefer the more expensive beers sold in liqour stores. The higher alcohol levels aren't the attraction. It's the superior taste of those beers that makes them sell. Oklahoma has some very good liquor stores with very wide varieties of beers, wines and harder spirits.

Finally, anyone into truly strong beer yet also interested in ones with great, complex taste need to check out Chimay. It's brewed by Trappist monks in Belgium. 3 varieties are sold (in 7%, 8% and 9% alcohol by volume strengths). The Chimay blue label variety is the strongest. But the brown label version has won more taste awards. There's a nice 3-pack gift set that includes a steel rim glass designed specifically for those beers. But beware, the stuff is expensive. One of those 3 packs may set you back close to $20.

[StillwaterTownie]

And the reason why we must continue with 3.2% beer is because the liguor stores want to continue to be the only ones other that the bars selling stronger beer. The Baptist and other religious opposition doesn't matter as much.