Decatur isn’t known as a spirituous liquors sorta town.

In fact, even the most local-obsessed among us has to cross into the wilds of “the Unincorporated” to buy a bottle of bourbon or malt liquor, as there isn’t a single place to purchase hard liquor for “off-premise consumption” (That’s ordinance-speak!) inside the Decatur bubble.  Sure many of our hundreds of thousands of restaurants serve excellent mixed drinks just around the corner, but that’s not really what this post is about.

I’m wondering, once you’ve reemerged from the realm of unstable millage rates and 7-day a week trash pickup with your bottle of 40 proof, what sort of drinks do you like to mix up?

Sure, I can produce a Gin and Tonic in a pinch and can pour bourbon over ice like a champ, but I feel like I need to expand my mix-cabulary a bit.

Leon’s photo courtesy of Random Atlanta

I found this in the city code while looking for the “open container” ordinance….

Licensees may sell alcoholic beverages on election days, provided that such sale is not within 250 feet of any polling place or of the outer edge of any building within which such polling place is established on primary or election days. The limitations imposed by this section shall be in effect beginning with the opening of the polls and ending with the closing of the polls.

(Code 1967, § 4-21)