All mixed drinks (beer and wine thus excluded), must be served from 'fixed size' containers or minibottles. These minibottles are 1.75 oz. in size. That leads to some fairly potent drinks and some that don't taste right because things are out of proportion.
Thus, a white russian, which is normally 2 oz. Vodka and 1 oz. Coffee liqueur (and some light cream) becomes either 1.75 oz Vodka and 1.75 Coffee liqueur or 3.5 oz Vodka and 1.75 oz Coffee liqueur. The first tastes wrong, the second is a big drink.
Finally, bars charge about $3-5 dollars per minibottle, so the second version of the drink above is anywhere from $9 to $15.
It's why 1) I drink Rum and Cokes and 2) I drink at home.
True. I don't drink alcohol very often (the last time being, I believe, six years ago), but it always struck me as a rather odd way to ensure a higher rate of drunken driving and other drunken stupidity.
how do they get the drinks in the minibottles first? do they pour them in and then pour them into the drink from there or are they all separate bottles being used. this law intrigues me. don't you have those caps with the spouts that have the little ball bearing inside them so when you tip the bottle over it pours out 30mL (1 oz.) and then stops? over here that's all we ever use because it's efficient and accurate... which state is SC? i wonder why they would even make a law like that in the first place.
The way it works is that there are something like five dozen distributors of minibottles. The liquor is packaged in these tiny 1.7 oz bottles that are then sold to bars, restaurants, nightclubs, etc.
That's the old way.
Sometime in 2005, we will be going to open pour, which uses full size bottles and presumably, drink prices could go down because of it.
thos little bottles are cute but we usually only buy them as novelties over here. less wastage from open pour...also the bartenders can do those 'flair' bartending courses and throw the bottles around before they pour from them :-P something i imagine is pretty hard ot do with teeny little bottles
The minibottles are made at various distileries. Basically, the bars just go to the liquor stores and buy cases of mini-bottles.
The reason we have mini-bottles is back in the '70s, South Carolina was a dry state (no alcohol). When it was decided to allow alcohol, it was put into the state consitution that it had to be poured from minibottles so that the customer knew exactly how much alcohol they were getting.
South Carolina is 'the buckle of the bible belt'. Located in the South (eastern) part of the country, it is quite conservative. Recently, they finally passed the law allowing people to legally get tattoos in this state.
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didn't they get rid of the ban on tattoos last year?
Gods bless, I think SC is finally joining the 20th century... too bad it's already the 21st.
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Thus, a white russian, which is normally 2 oz. Vodka and 1 oz. Coffee liqueur (and some light cream) becomes either 1.75 oz Vodka and 1.75 Coffee liqueur or 3.5 oz Vodka and 1.75 oz Coffee liqueur. The first tastes wrong, the second is a big drink.
Finally, bars charge about $3-5 dollars per minibottle, so the second version of the drink above is anywhere from $9 to $15.
It's why 1) I drink Rum and Cokes and 2) I drink at home.
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What a stupid law....
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this law intrigues me.
don't you have those caps with the spouts that have the little ball bearing inside them so when you tip the bottle over it pours out 30mL (1 oz.) and then stops? over here that's all we ever use because it's efficient and accurate...
which state is SC? i wonder why they would even make a law like that in the first place.
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That's the old way.
Sometime in 2005, we will be going to open pour, which uses full size bottles and presumably, drink prices could go down because of it.
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less wastage from open pour...also the bartenders can do those 'flair' bartending courses and throw the bottles around before they pour from them :-P something i imagine is pretty hard ot do with teeny little bottles
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The reason we have mini-bottles is back in the '70s, South Carolina was a dry state (no alcohol). When it was decided to allow alcohol, it was put into the state consitution that it had to be poured from minibottles so that the customer knew exactly how much alcohol they were getting.
South Carolina is 'the buckle of the bible belt'. Located in the South (eastern) part of the country, it is quite conservative. Recently, they finally passed the law allowing people to legally get tattoos in this state.
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