Those of you who regularly read this blog know my opinion of the Ohio Department of Commerce’s Division of Liquor Control. In all honesty, everyone complains about how their state’s government booze agency is the stupidest/weirdest/most irritating in the US, so I’m hardly going to get any sympathy from residents outside Ohio.
Anyway, my chief gripe is that the State decides, for it’s own profit-motive reasons, which liquors can be sold in Ohio. This would be frustrating enough for someone who is always looking for the next great, obscure cocktail ingredient, but the State also makes no effort to let anyone know what is available, and what isn’t. If you have a liquor store with a helpful employee, they may be able to tell you whether it was available the last time they got a printed list. Just a peachy setup.
Well, I finally went searching online for the list of available liquors on the state’s website. To make an already too long story short, I found it. Click here for the complete list of all brands of liquor available in Ohio. It is not sorted in any fashion understandable by human’s, so use you browser’s search function to look around. All that said, it is darned useful to look over before heading out to the store to pick up a bottle of whatever interesting elixir you just read about online!