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Roxbury liquor store wants to get nippy
By adamg on Sat, 04/25/2015 - 6:43am
Blue Hill Liquors, 108 Blue Hill Ave., goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week seeking permission to sell nips.
The store currently has a license provision prohibiting it from selling the single-serving mini bottles of alcohol.
The board generally imposes nip bans on liquor stores at the request of local residents and police.
The board's hearings begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday in its eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
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Huh
They (nip bottles) pile up outside my local liquor store on Cambridge St in Beacon Hill like so many dust bunnies. I know the neighbors have complained, but no one is shutting down the store or stopping the sale of nips.
Nipa
That store has a steady business from all the drunks in town. They drink on our steps for hours and leave their empty bottles and other garbage on the street. I didn't know you needed special permission to sell nips. I guess this means permission can be revoked too? Good news.
Nips...
Every time I see someone buying them, they look like they're about five minutes from getting the shakes.
Littering and...
There should really be a 5 cent deposit on nips. Those things pile up all over the place.
Support the Ban
nips are marketed to the poor and the homeless along with fine wines like mad dog twenty twenty. They drink this liquid crack and go crazy causing problems in urban neighborhoods,while the merchants make huge profits and can afford to live in wealthy suburbs where nips are banned.
And when the nips and fortified wine are gone,
Should we ban the Ny-Quil and Mouthwash in urban neighborhoods, as well?
Aquanet
There's always Aquanet.
I understand, but
I understand that these are products used only by poor people and bad alcoholics. However, I think banning them is attacking the symptom of the problem and seeks a cosmetic solution over a substantive one, and creates more arbitrary (as opposed to principled) rules and regulations.
I buy nips when I fly or see
I buy nips when I fly or see a movie and want to make a jack and coke.
I have a 2 1/2 oz flask
Actually two of them that were freebies in a Jameson bottle holiday package years ago. I've brought them on flights but never been questioned by TSA, they are stamped with the volume on the bottom so I can prove they are under the three ounce limit. Buy in bulk and save.
I buy nips, too.
Don't really need to spend $40 on a whole bottle of Courvoisier or Grand Marnier when all I need is a couple tablespoons for a recipe.
Your point's taken, though. Clean up of the property after the snow melted revealed a whole treasure trove of empty Dr. McGillicuddy and Smirnoff Pineapple bottles. (The first being overpowering in a cup of hot cho-co-late; the second, a terrible substitute for the normal hooch in a hot toddy.)
yeah
Same here, not much of a drinker so nips work well for me. You can buy a few nips to make a couple of mixed drinks and never have anything left over.
Now Vodka on the other hand.. I have four bottles of kettle unopened because I keep buying it thinking I'll have one but never do. At the rate I drink, I'll be passing on these bottles of Kettle to my heirs.
Love em'
I'm no acholic but they do come in handy when it's time for a flight
Alcoholist
There are alcoholics and alcholists, the former is a substance abuse problem while the latter is a lifestyle choice.
Hotels
Are the hotels fighting this? Like, because it would cut into their business?
I've seen people ask for them at the very classy store on Devonshire, only to be told that Boston doesn't do nips. Mostly people who want to make a rum and coke with out paying the inflated hotel room bar prices.
There's no automatic citywide ban on nips
The licensing board decides on a case-by-case basis.
"case by case"
can amount to a de facto ban, if not enough individual cases are approved, or if one needs to be "hooked up" in order to get approval.