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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission has taken another step in passing rules to expand the size of growlers from 2 to 4 liters.
Published: Friday, February 11th, 2022 @ 4:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing Wednesday morning on the permanent expansion of allowable growler sizes in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control system has a new commissioner. It gets continued reassurance from its boards and warehouse operator that they’ll get it right and, to that end, newly created groups meant to help them do so.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 8:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Hank Bauer is the new chairman of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
Published: Monday, December 20th, 2021 @ 6:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper appointed Hank Bauer to be the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission (NC ABC Commission) Chairman today.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 3:16 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Terrance Merriweather, deputy commissioner of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, will oversee daily operations of the agency until the governor appoints a new chairman.
Published: Thursday, November 4th, 2021 @ 11:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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ABC chairman A.D. Zander Guy Jr. has resigned as chairman of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission.
Published: Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission and the company operating the state’s liquor warehouses are trying to offer a modicum of relief to local boards suffering from problems with the global supply chain.
Published: Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 @ 5:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House committee on Alcoholic Beverage Control moved several bills Wednesday, May 5, including measures to expand growler sizes, to allow alcohol service on charter buses, and to set up “social districts.”
Published: Monday, May 10th, 2021 @ 6:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission voted unanimously last week to recommend the state award a 10-year contract for warehouse services to LB&B Associates, the target of an audit in 2018 that has over the previous years cost the state about $13.5 million.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 12:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill seeking to extend a delay on payment deadlines for certain alcohol permits quickly cleared an N.C. House Alcoholic Beverage Control Committee on Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Published: Monday, February 8th, 2021 @ 9:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With actions to slow the spread of COVID-19 beginning to have impact, Governor Roy Cooper is doubling down on prevention measures with Executive Order 153 stopping the sale of alcoholic drinks in restaurants, breweries, wineries, and distilleries at 11 pm.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 @ 9:45 am
By: Governor's Office
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A group of lawmakers who oversee program oversight is working on a draft bill designed to promote transparency and objectivity as they relate to penalties issued by the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 @ 11:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Sen. Rick Gunn, R-Alamance, and the N.C. Association of ABC Boards want to allow bars and restaurants to sell alcohol back to N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission stores.
Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2020 @ 3:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control stores remain open throughout the state, although many staff members within the ABC system are working from home.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 12:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Walter Harris, chairman of the Chatham County Alcoholic Beverage Control board, told WUNC’s Frank Stasio he’s been told North Carolina is among the country’s best at selling hard liquor.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2019 @ 3:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers have offered several proposals to repair the broken, outdated way the state governs alcohol through the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control system.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 2:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control system — created in 1937 in the wake of the repeal of Prohibition — for the past 80-plus years has remained mostly static.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 7:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Cooper Signs Bill Into Law
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2019 @ 11:23 pm
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina gets products from the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky — which makes the iconic and mostly unattainable Pappy Van Winkle — only a couple times a year, and those bottles are subsequently allotted to N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control boards around the state.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 4:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers this session have filed what amounts to a jumble of bills designed to ease restrictive Prohibition-era rules enacted in the first half of the 20th century.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2019 @ 4:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A week or so ago, a group of people who don't like the idea of people drinking liquor got together to denounce efforts to privatize the state monopoly on alcohol sales, storage, and distribution
Published: Friday, March 8th, 2019 @ 3:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the best examples of pure socialism in the United States can be found right here in North Carolina - our system of distribution and sales of alcoholic beverages
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In North Carolina, beer and wine are readily available at grocery stores, convenience stores, specialty shops, even pharmacies and other places, and even on Sundays
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 7:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s large and energetic craft brewing industry — over 300 strong now — chafes against the state’s arbitrary distribution cap
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2019 @ 12:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Did you know that North Carolina used to be the nation's leader in locally owned and operated distilleries?
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 @ 3:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I made a presentation recently to a community GOP club, a group of kind people who were smart, engaged, and curious. Much like many of the other groups I speak to and with.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 8:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Despite a dip in total alcohol consumption, U.S. drinkers bought more than 230 million nine-liter cases of distilled spirits in 2018 - a 1.9 percent increase on the previous year.
Published: Saturday, January 26th, 2019 @ 9:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission is scheduled to meet 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, to consider and adopt rules for spirits sold and consumed in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 @ 5:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission has released its initial 2018 annual report, the pages of which are filled with colorful photos of smiling people and happy numbers.
Published: Monday, January 14th, 2019 @ 1:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An email to suppliers last week from the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission, in addition to announcing that it's trimming the number of products it lists, cited the state's alcohol warehouse operator for its good work
Published: Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 @ 4:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission is trimming the number of products it lists because, to be blunt, some of those items - i.e. bottles - just aren't selling
Published: Friday, November 16th, 2018 @ 8:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For North Carolina's distillers, getting their products into ABC stores is arduous and time-consuming
Published: Monday, September 17th, 2018 @ 2:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Head distiller Chris Jude steps through a door at the High Wire Distilling Co. in Charleston, South Carolina. Jude, who's from Boone, enters the tasting room and bar, making the short trip from the place spirits are made to the place spirits are served
Published: Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 @ 12:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Terrance Merriweather is the new deputy director of The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The way North Carolina governs alcoholic spirits must change, for myriad reasons
Published: Saturday, September 8th, 2018 @ 4:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission appears to operate with little, if any, oversight, aside from a board chairman and two - now one - commissioners, who are appointed by the governor
Published: Saturday, August 25th, 2018 @ 1:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A company cited for questionable contract dealings in a recent state audit of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission in 2015 paid a civil settlement of $7.8 million under federal allegations of fraud
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The fallout continues over an audit that found a lack of oversight by the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control commission has cost the state about $13.5 million
Published: Thursday, August 23rd, 2018 @ 5:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bob Hamilton is out as administrator of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control commission
Published: Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 @ 4:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A North Carolina distiller who got into trouble with N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission distributed more than 70 letters to colleagues warning them against running afoul of state laws
Published: Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 @ 1:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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