The Alaska Alcohol Beverage Control Board’s January direction to distilleries to serve spirits and mixers in separate containers was quashed last week after the agency failed to provide adequate public notice.
Alaska statute requires such proposed actions to be published in a newspaper of general circulation. The ABC Board published its notice in the Anchorage Press, the city’s alternative weekly newspaper that isn’t considered a statewide publication.
“We are required to repost the notice of…
