“It’s been a little bit of a surprise to me,” he said, “because I have not had anybody ever come to me over the last number of years saying, ‘I wish my beer had more alcohol content.’"
SB132 would increase the alcohol limit for beer sold in retail stores from the current 3.2 percent by weight to 4.8 percent — or from 4 percent by volume to 6 percent, a more common industry standard. Large national brewers are phasing out 3.2 beer because so few states now sell it.
Beer sold "on draft” at restaurants and bars could also increase to the 4.