Nanny State Alert: NY State Senate Passes Law Making Sale of Irish Coffee a Felony?

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons good-quality Irish whiskey (Jameson's works well)
8 teaspoons sugar
1/3 cups freshly brewed coffee, preferably strong French roast
1/2 cup heavy or whipping cream, whipped to soft peaks

The NY State Senate has passed legislation that would ban the sale of caffeinated alcoholic beverages. Irish coffee is a caffeinated alcoholic beverage.

ALBANY - The State Senate passed legislation that would have New York formally ban the sale of caffeinated alcoholic beverages.

The legislation, (S.3889A), was introduced by Senator Jeffrey Klein, (D- Bronx/ Westchester) as a response to the public health danger posed by Four Loko and similar super-sweetened beverages that mixed high levels of alcohol with caffeine and other stimulants. Under this measure, selling this product would be an E felony punishable by 1 to 3 years in prison.

The FDA has deemed the addition of caffeine to high alcohol flavored malt beverages as “unsafe.” As a result, the four companies that manufactured these caffeinated alcoholic beverages agreed to stop selling them in New York. Read more here...