Editing Low-alcohol beer (section)

===Low-point beer===
Low-point beer, which is often known in the United States as "three-two beer" or "3 point 2 brew", is beer that contains 3.2% [[Alcohol by volume#Alcohol by volume and alcohol by weight|alcohol by weight]] (equivalent to about 4% ABV).

The term "low-point beer" is unique to the United States, where some states limit the sale of beer, but beers of this type are also available in countries (such as [[Beer classification in Sweden and Finland|Sweden and Finland]]) that tax or otherwise regulate beer according to its alcohol content.

In the United States, 3.2 beer was the highest alcohol content beer allowed to be produced legally for nine months in 1933. As part of his [[New Deal]], President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] signed the [[Cullen–Harrison Act]] that repealed the [[Volstead Act]] on 22 March 1933. In December 1933, the [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution]] was passed, eliminating a federal level prohibition on the production and sale of alcoholic beverages and returning to the states the power to regulate them within their borders.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-07-oe-ogle7-story.html |title=The day the beer flowed again |newspaper=Los Angeles Times| first=Maureen | last=Ogle |date=7 April 2008}}</ref>

After the repeal of Prohibition, a number of state laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors remained in effect. As these were repealed, they were first replaced by laws limiting the maximum alcohol content allowed for sale as 3.2 ABW. As of 2019, the state of [[Minnesota]]{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} permits general establishments such as supermarket chains and convenience stores to sell only low-point beer; in the 2010s, [[Colorado]], [[Kansas]], [[Oklahoma]], and [[Utah]] revised state laws to end this practice.<ref>{{cite web|first1=William|last1=Brand|date=14 July 2005 |title=Letters: Alcohol Labels for Consumers |url=http://beernewsletter.com/blog/?m=200507 |website=What’s On Tap – The California Craft Beer Newsletter|archive-date=12 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012113724/http://beernewsletter.com/blog/?m=200507}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/cityguides/saltlakecity/2003-10-07-spotlight-liquor_x.htm|title=USATODAY.com - What's up with Utah's liquor laws?|website=[[USA Today]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://citypages.com/databank/24/1201/article11733.asp |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226131610/http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1201/article11733.asp|url-status=dead|title=Getting to the bottom of Minnesota's liquor laws|archivedate=26 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/709515770/the-end-is-near-for-3-2-beer|title=The End Is Near For 3.2 Beer|website=[[NPR]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/03/27/guv-signs-off-so-utahs/|title=Guv signs off, so Utah's 3.2 beer law is on its way out. Stronger brews will be in grocery stores Nov. 1|website=Salt Lake Tribune|date=26 March 2019}}</ref> In the states that maintain such laws, all alcoholic beverages containing more than 3.2% alcohol by weight ([[Alcohol by volume#Alcohol by volume and alcohol by weight|ABW]]) must be sold from state-licensed liquor stores.

[[Missouri]] also has a legal classification for low-point beer, which it calls "nonintoxicating beer".<ref>Chapter 312, Revised Statutes of Missouri (R.S.Mo.)</ref> Unlike Minnesota and Utah, Missouri does not limit supermarket chains and convenience stores to selling only low-point beer. Instead, [[Alcohol laws of Missouri|Missouri's alcohol laws]] permit grocery stores, drug stores, gas stations, and even "general merchandise stores" (a term that Missouri law does not define) to sell any alcoholic beverage;<ref>Section 311.200, R.S.Mo.</ref> consequently, 3.2% beer is rarely sold in Missouri.