"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
I sent this email to the Penn Brewery in Pittsburgh, Pa..

My wife and I, my daughters, my son-in-laws have been coming to the Penn
Brewery for many years. In fact, my older daughter had her wedding
rehersal
dinner at the Penn Brewery.
My wife has been advised to eliminate alcoholic beverages from her diet.
Since
you do not serve an NA beer, could she possibly bring a couple bottles of
an NA
beer with her when we come to the Brewery?
************************************************** ****I received this
reply:
We'll take your suggestion under consideration but do not permit customers
to
bring their own beverages into the restaurant. We do serve a number of
juices,
soft drinks, tea, coffee, iced tea. Thanks for your support of our
restaurant
through the years.
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I've been to restaurants that allow diabetics and patrons with other
medical
problems to bring their own condiments, salad dressings, etc.. I would
think
that drinking an NA beer on a doctor's advice would fall into this
category.
BTW, the NA beer would be Clausthaler, not the O'Doulle's crap that most
all
restaurants and bars serve.

I dunno, Tom. Not sure what the PA laws are on serving NA beer in licensed
establishments, because PA is weird about NA: although it is non-alcoholic,
for instance, you can't drink it if you're underage. It's regulated by the
PA Dept. of Agriculture...I think. It's a real gray area, and they may be
concerned about possible problems with their license if they allow it to
come in without having purchsed it themselves. When you start messing with
liquor laws -- or in this case, almost liquor laws! -- you run into real
weird stuff. Given the extremely arbitrary nature of PLCB enforcement
agents, they may just be really nervous. Not sure.

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Lew Bryson

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