Cities like Memphis, Omaha, and Kansas City have open container districts where patrons can travel from bar to bar with drinks. Should we have one in downtown GR?
MLive compiled a list of the bars in Michigan that buy and sell and lot of alcohol each year, and Detroit dominates the entire list. Not a surprise, since you probably have to drink a lot to be able to live in Detroit, haha! But last year, one Grand Rapids business not only shows up in the top 20, but is number two in the state in alcohol sales!
There are two things I've noticed about Grand Rapids since moving here. A lot of people like to exercise, and they also love to drink beer. It IS Beer City USA, so this makes sense. And now, there's a new fitness craze coming out of Germany, and working it's way across the world. And it needs to come to Grand Rapids.
Beer Yoga!
Prior to 2003, drivers in Michigan weren't considered drunk unless they had a blood alcohol content of .10.
Current law sets the legal blood alcohol level at .08. The legal blood alcohol level will return to the pre-2003 level of .10 this fall unless a new law is voted in.
Order in the Court!
It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it!
A Swiss newspaper reports that judges at one of the country's highest courts held a midmorning cocktail event to determine whether a companies alcoholic drink were sweet enough to be taxed a certain way!