Pi Place Pizzeria Brewpub busted for selling more than 3.2 beer

[Cats Cats Cats]

You can sleep easy tonight everybody.  http://www.fox23.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=4057768 Smoot busted a major big time alcohol ring.  They never mentioned how much over their beer tested.  It could have been .00000001% over.  But I bet Smoot would keep us 2 % over or a few fractions over.

[patric]

You can sleep easy tonight everybody.  http://www.fox23.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=4057768 Smoot busted a major big time alcohol ring.  They never mentioned how much over their beer tested.  It could have been .00000001% over.  But I bet Smoot would keep us 2 % over or a few fractions over.

Apparently ABLE's on-camera personality told FOX23 that the microwbrewery was a danger to the public because customers would not know they were drinking real beer and end up becoming intoxicated.  ABLE was photographed seizing the brewery's beer kegs.
their facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pi-Pizzeria-and-Craft-Beer/489249547758740?_fb_noscript=1
http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/REVIEW_Pi_Pizzeria_Craft_Beer/20130410_371_0_ClintE720653

ABLE Commission agents have visited the restaurant and sampled the beer multiple times. They say the beers being brewed and sold had a higher alcohol content than 3.2%. This allowed agents to get a search warrant and seize the equipment used to make the beer.
Agents say the restaurant only has a license to brew and sell low-point beer.
Director Keith Burt of the Oklahoma ABLE Commission stated that, "Not only does the ABLE Commission take seriously the importance of enforcing the laws of the State of Oklahoma, it is the mission of this agency to protect the health and public safety of our citizens by making them aware of what they are consuming."

It sounds like ABLE has outlived it's usefulness.

[Cats Cats Cats]

He gave an even better interview to Channel 2.  He saved us all you guys.  I hope they make a movie about how he single handedly saved America.

[heironymouspasparagus]

And yet we continue to do the mild "slap on the wrist" for seriously drunk repeat offender drivers....

Okrahoma at it's finest!!

[DolfanBob]

Deputy Smoot. His Cousins name is Andy.

[Cats Cats Cats]

Man I love America!  Where your employees get fined for the company.  "They say the manager is being charged with making and selling strong beer without a license."  MANAGER not the OWNER.  I'm sure this was whoever was in charge when they raided based on the writing of tickets experienced in their last raids in bluedome.


http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/oklahoma-able-commission-agents-bust-south-tulsa-brewery-for-making-strong-beer-without-a-license

[AquaMan]

I heard they usually put the alcohol license in the name of the manager or bartender to avoid prosecution of the owners. Is that true?

[Conan71]

I had no idea this place even existed.  Damn glad ABLE saved me from potentially drinking some 4% ABV beer though when I eventually did find out about the place.

Now this begs the question, what customer would complain about strong beer to the ABLE Commission, I mean really?

[patric]

I had no idea this place even existed.  Damn glad ABLE saved me from potentially drinking some 4% ABV beer though when I eventually did find out about the place.
Now this begs the question, what customer would complain about strong beer to the ABLE Commission, I mean really?

ABLE now intends to send the brewer to prison.


Agents say they will forward the case to the District Attorney's Office. Agents say they face charges for engaging in activity which requires a license and possession with intent to sell alcoholic beverages. Each misdemeanor charge carries a $1,000 fine and year in jail.
http://www.fox23.com/mostpopular/story/Craft-beer-maker-busted-for-no-license-on-strong/QPFhiDZaW0uKq70NOu-nvw.cspx

[BKDotCom]

Now this begs the question, what customer would complain about strong beer to the ABLE Commission, I mean really?

Disgruntled employee / competitor

[carltonplace]

We need more craft beer makers and fewer ABLE officers.

[Ibanez]

He gave an even better interview to Channel 2.  He saved us all you guys.  I hope they make a movie about how he single handedly saved America.

What is with this guy? Nobody can possibly be that uptight and still walk upright.

[patric]

what customer would complain about strong beer to the ABLE Commission, I mean really?

Must have been that anonymous informant you always read about.

ABLE has been pushing for huge raises under House Bill 2145 (the omnibus public safety money grab) but has been on the defensive ever since there was a proposal to combine the agency with other specialty money pits.

You would think Tulsa's leaders would be on the defensive if someone shot down Mayfest or entertainment district revitalizing efforts, as well.
...or at least asking what city resources we are obligated to give those who don't have our best interests in mind.

[Conan71]

What is with this guy? Nobody can possibly be that uptight and still walk upright.

They will probably find him huddled in an alley one day with a 14 year old boy and a warm crack pipe.

[Gaspar]

The Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission is a vestigial organ of a bygone era.  They serve no purpose but to act as private gestapo for whatever party is willing to say their name three times in the mirror.  In the old days we had gangsters that you had to bribe to stay in business.  Today we have the same.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. In vices, the very essence of crime—that is, the design to injure the person or property of another—is wanting. It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practices a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others. Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property, and the corresponding coequal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property.

--Lisander Spooner