Speakeasy Sports Bar What You Expected

Can we sum up this new sports bar in the old Zanzibar Blue spot in one sentence? Why, yes, yes we can. Suzy on JL Sullivan’s Speakeasy: “I kind of saw it as a university of sorts if McFadden’s was the high school.”

Excellent: Explaining the bar in just one sentence. She adds, “Not that this is a bad thing,” but I think we all know how we personally feel about McFadden’s.

Spreading the word about Philly’s new “Speakeasy” despite their deep affection for mass produced witbiers [I'll Have Another Stout]

Del. Wine Store Is Against Speakeasies

The Inquirer today has a story about Pennsylvania residents illegally crossing into New Jersey and Delaware to buy liquor. Because of the tax still levied on alcohol from the 1936 Johnstown flood — which the state is apparently still devastated from — alcohol is much more expensive in the Keystone State than elsewhere.

Technically, it’s illegal to buy liquor in a neighboring state and bring it back into Pennsylvania. But how likely are you to be caught? Well, only 11 people were cited in Pennsylvania last year for illegally importing alcohol.

The manager of Total Wine and More, in Delaware, says he’s just making a living. But, hey, he doesn’t sell to Al Capone and his cronies!

“We don’t knowingly sell to speakeasies and restaurants because we don’t condone that at all,” Grunes said.

The state won’t ever repeal the law because it brings in a million billion dollars a year, which the state legislators then spend on themselves.

Crossing the border with booze not exactly a high-profile crime [Inquirer]
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Cops Raid Speakeasy; Charleston Hits #1 On Dance Charts

A 49-year-old woman in Princeton was arrested for running a speakeasy.

You see, there is news this week!

A month-long investigation (!) led to the arrest of Dilma Regaldo Rios. She was charged with selling alcoholic beverages without a license, warehousing alcoholic beverages and paraphernalia and storing alcoholic beverages with the intent to sell.

It’s not known why one would sell alcohol illegally when one can sell it legally, but Rios’ court date is Jan. 9, so perhaps we can find out then. Patrons used her house as a speakeasy and as a take-out service. (Secrecy in a speakeasy isn’t as important anymore now that alcohol is legal.) On Thursday, officers executed a search warrant and confiscated $650, 14 cases of beer, one bottle of tequila and 18 limes.

It’s not known if this is the first time a lime has been identified as drug paraphernalia.

1 charged for alleged illegal alcohol operation [Trenton Times]