Allen’s Coffee Flavored Brandy has a competitor nipping at its heels. For decades, the coffee-flavored liquor has far outsold other hard alcohol in the Pine Tree State, and Maine accounts for virtually all of Allen’s sales nationwide. Maine drinkers purchase so much coffee brandy that the Allen’s website claims it is “an almost cultural rite […]
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'Nipping' the nips business
Recently, the governor, the Legislature and the commissioner of the bureau dealing with alcohol clashed in regard to the sale of “nips.” The governor and commissioner chose to remove the popular item from Maine’s list of liquor items for sale. I believe the request was because the Legislature went against the governor’s request to not […]
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Commission dropped the ball
Four out of five members of the Maine Liquor and Lottery Commission have rather strange priorities, or perhaps they need a good dose of reality. It is just amazing that those people, in such a responsible position, would put commerce ahead of safety and littering in backing the continued sales of nips. Perhaps they should […]
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Maine to raise price of nips and other cheap spirits
AUGUSTA — Days after failing to ban the sales of nips, state regulators are imposing a 50 percent price hike on most of the increasingly popular single-sip liquor bottles. Regulators announced a new plan that would dramatically increase the price of nips as well as many other cheap bottles of spirits on Oct. 1. Regulators […]
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Liquor panel rejects ban on 'nips'
AUGUSTA — Citing the need to protect jobs and consumer choice, the Maine Liquor and Lottery Commission on Tuesday rejected Gov. Paul LePage’s bid to impose a ban on the sale of tiny liquor bottles known as “nips.” By a 4-1 vote, the panel declined to go along with a recommendation to “de-list” the 50-milliliter […]
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Banning nips will cause more problems than solutions
In 2013, more than 100 workers at the then-Beam plant in Lewiston thought they were going to lose their jobs when Beam announced it would be moving its operations out of Lewiston. Fortunately, an American liquor company, Sazerac, came in and bought the plant, keeping good jobs in Lewiston and bringing a nationally recognized brand […]
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No surprises from governor
No one should be surprised about Gov. Paul LePage’s dislike for the press. History says that dictators have always tried to stifle the press and freedom of speech. In a true dictatorship, people don’t get to vote and LePage is working on that as well by trying to reverse a decision that the majority of […]
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'Nips' ban will boost New Hampshire liquor sales, retailers warn
AUGUSTA — Maine retailers are pleading with regulators to brush aside calls to ban the sale of small liquor bottles known as nips. The proposal “will take money out of the pockets of the state’s essential business partners,” the Maine Grocers & Food Producers Association said in a statement. Retailers warn the move would undermine […]
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Maine liquor regulators urge a ban on nips
AUGUSTA — Banning small liquor bottles known as nips will reduce littering, make it harder to drive while drinking and cause “no significant loss of revenues” for the state, according to state alcohol regulators. In a formal recommendation to commissioners, the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations recently offered a full-throated defense of Gov. […]
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Regulators tie popularity of nips to spike in drunk driving
AUGUSTA — Tiny liquor bottles known as “nips” may be causing a spike in drinking and driving in Maine because they’re so easy to chug and chuck, a state official said. State liquor regulators eyeing a possible ban on the 50-milliliter bottles said there’s been a spike in convictions for operating under the influence that […]