Question about JP LIcks

[ariwriter.livejournal.com]

JP Licks typically serves a Kahlua ice cream flavor. As I recall, they can blend it into a frappe. I don't think they have a liquor license, so how is a frappe not considered a mixed beverage if the ice cream has alcohol regardless of the minute level?

Comments

[ron_newman]

Shhhhhhhhh.

[kevin-church.livejournal.com]

I think you should get Help Me Hank on the case.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I don't know how the particular law works, but a lot of flavorings have alcohol (i.e. vanilla). Could it count as a flavoring?

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

especially since it's not like they're pouring kahlua into the frappe and it's usually like, i don't know what, 1/2c. to at least a couple of quarts?

[kpht.livejournal.com]

Because shut the hell up, that's why.

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

Anything that has 0.5% alcohol or less is considered "non-alcoholic". So, that sounds about right.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

:D

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

GAWD. What an effing teetotaler.

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

Soft drinks (sodas) have alcohol in them, especially if the carbonation process is done the "old fashioned" way through fermentation. Also, some flavor extraction processes might introduce alcohol into sodas and juices. Because of this, products that have under a certain amount of alcohol (defined in most countries as 0.5%) are considered to be "non-alcoholic".

As for extracting the alcohol from the ice cream, this is damned easy as water/ice cream turns solid long before alcohol does. They probably just make the ice cream with Kalhua in it and strain the liquid to get it way below the magic 0.5% number.

[inahandbasket]

actually they don't.
Handmade sodas made at home would if carbonated via slight fermentation, but commercial sodas have no alcohol. They're flavored sugar and carbonated water.

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

OP never said that there was anything WRONG with it, just wondering about the legal implications.

That said, I have to agree with kpht on this one.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

I'm just saying ... it takes a real teetotaler to EVEN WORRY about .000345445 of alcohol in a frappe.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

He's not worrying about it, he's just curious. But I, too, sit with kpht in this matter.

[kpht.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[overstim.livejournal.com]

Teetotaler is one of those words that people write all the time but no one every says out loud. Like "jodhpur" and "kowtow".

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Oh, I use it all the time. Usually, in reference to myself.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

And I AS WELL!

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

I didn't infer that the OP was worried. I inferred that the OP was curious about how this interacted with the law. (If there was any worry, I thought it might be the OP's worry that prohibition-minded SWAT teams woudl bust JP Licks and take away the precious, precious frappe.)

[firepail.livejournal.com]

has this been keeping you up nights? ;)

[firepail.livejournal.com]

wait... now I want one.

the power of suggestion!

[overstim.livejournal.com]

do you also say things like "pip pip" and ride a bicycle with one really big wheel and one little one?

[ariwriter.livejournal.com]

I asked the question after visiting a different ice cream shop not in Somerville and asking that their Kahlua ice cream be made into a frappe and was told they don't do that as they don't have a liquor license.

Hence my question to the Davis folks.

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

I've really been spending my time worrying about how churches can serve wine to minors.

[ron_newman]

I said that above already ;-)

[ron_newman]

Synagogues too.