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  Brett November 14, 2012 at 12:52 pm

  And I just found my new favorite bar. Lots of great NC beers mentioned that I have been missing since I moved here.
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  Up shur November 14, 2012 at 12:58 pm

  I think if it’s not from a DC licensed distributor, they can’t sell it. There was another bar that got in trouble with ABRA a while back for that.
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    kev29 November 14, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    Unless something has changed recently, bars and restaurants are allowed to sell whatever they can get their hands on. Sometimes even driven back by the owners/managers themselves.
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      kev29 November 14, 2012 at 2:15 pm

      Found the City Paper article about DC’s lax “importing” laws…

      http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2011/04/06/a-bootleg-up-how-lax-import-regulations-made-d-c-a-craft-beer-haven/

      “In other jurisdictions, this sort of DIY delivery system would be called “bootlegging,” and it would fly in the face of the law. But not in the District, where loose regulations allow retailers like Pizzeria Paradiso to import their own beer through virtually any means necessary. You can fill up your firkins in Philadelphia, or simply buy bottles from some Brooklyn bodega. Anything is possible outside the District line. “D.C.’s the wild, wild west,” says Erin Tyler, sales manager for Legends Limited, a Baltimore-based importer and distributor that does much of its business in the District”
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        Joe and Angie November 14, 2012 at 2:25 pm

        Yes, such an amazing loophole, especially for craft beer nerds like myself.
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    anonynmous November 14, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    There’s nothing wrong or illegal about what they are doing. Even if there were, do you have something to gain by pointing that out?

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