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Subject: Re: Marrying bottles?
From: robert
Posted: Fri Mar 10. 2006, 12:01 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Marrying bottles?"  by Thinking Bartender  (Fri Mar 10. 2006, 11:31 UTC)
> Where did you find this info?
> 
> I was told a long while ago that marrying up wasn't legal in the UK.
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> George S.
> 
> "You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct 
> way, and the only way, it does not exist." - F. Nietzsche 
> 
> "innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" - Steve 
> Jobs

I made up the definition. I don't have a solid sauce for the info but I've 
argued it with many a manager and took it up when I did my licensee training 
and drew blanks on all fronts. One of the local magistrates drinks in my bar 
and he couldn't reference a law forbidding it either so even if an arcaic 
(sp?) law exists on the books, in practice it's common and prosecution for it 
is unheard of and without precedent. I know that's not much use in practice. 
Another local magistrate is my nextdoor neighbour so I'll have a crack at her 
and see if she can find me a reference forbidding it but untill I'm shown 
evidence conclusivly proving it's illegal I'm asuming otherwise. I understand 
how and why the law exists in the US but if you think about it there's no 
reason it should be illegal if we're talking about identical products.

Hold on just a minute!
http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/milton-keynes/E08%20Alcohol%20Law.pdf
Suggests it should be avoided but only to avoid mistakes. I'm sure if it was 
illegal it would say?
-- 
"Manners maketh the man, Bourbon, vermouth and bitters maketh the Manhattan"


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