Alcohol in the Magic Kingdom

[Bolt]

I've never seen that on any visit. You're talking about CMs with 'cigarette girl' style trays stocked with cups of beer, walking down the queue and selling it as you're standing there?

They are actually there nightly - they are used because the food stand lines get backed up inside Fantasmic. They come out to the streets when the line is building for the show and the venue hasn't opened yet. More for practicality since the line seems to flux a bit during the load process.

 

[Laketravis]

Thanksgiving week and the week before/after beginning around (I think) 2012 every year, I would regularly see CM's pushing iced-down carts with beer for sale in HS starting in the late afternoons. I've also seen them in March (2015) and June (2015). But only at the end of Sunset near ToT and RnRR.

 

[Bolt]

This type of selling.

I do. I'll need proof of this. I don't believe it for one moment.

 

[Ricky Spanish]

They already sell beer by the bottle in the parks. They use those aluminum things that make every sip taste like sucking on a quarter.

Amen.
I gave up drinking from aluminum cans when I turned 21.
Couldn't imagine drinking my Le Fin Du Monde from an aluminum bottle!

 

[larryz]

Amen.
I gave up drinking from aluminum cans when I turned 21.
Couldn't imagine drinking my Le Fin Du Monde from an aluminum bottle!

La Fin du Monde would be good out of ANYthing... and after the first few swigs, you wouldn't care anyway.

 

[flynnibus]

The odd thing is WHY the Aluminum beer bottles make beer taste like 'sucking on a quarter' as some of the best craft Brews come in aluminum cans.

Cans are lined.. but usually you pour from a can for a craft vs drinking from the lip like you would a bud light.

 

[JohnD]

I think I would be okay with alcohol at TS restaurants in MK but nowhere else. That includes BOG, SC, LTT, CRT, and CP.

 

[ford91exploder]

Cans are lined.. but usually you pour from a can for a craft vs drinking from the lip like you would a bud light.

That's true in most cases however both Heady Topper and Sip O Sunshine both recommend you drink from the can, But in both cases the cans appear to be completely coated

 

[Master Yoda]

That's true in most cases however both Heady Topper and Sip O Sunshine both recommend you drink from the can, But in both cases the cans appear to be completely coated

Non coated metal cans of any kind went the way of the dinosaur by about 1950.

Not only would direct exposure to aluminum make whatever that is in it taste like utter garbage (this is especially true for beer and soda), but the shelf life of the product would be greatly reduced as well.

 

[Notes from Neverland]

Spotted them outside of RnR and ToT for sure.

This is also where I saw vendors similar to what you'd see at a sporting event.

 

[Minthorne]

Non coated metal cans of any kind went the way of the dinosaur by about 1950.

Not only would direct exposure to aluminum make whatever that is in it taste like utter garbage (this is especially true for beer and soda), but the shelf life of the product would be greatly reduced as well.

so true - cans are cool- ask Can Solo!

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/secret-life-aluminum-can-true-modern-marvel/

 

[Tony the Tigger]

Cart

or

Kiosk

or

Oh and the reason for differentiating, it feels OK to buy beer from a menu at a kiosk or a bar. But from an ice bath at a cart, that doesn't feel right at Disney.

You forgot to end with, "for some people."

 

[Shane7694]

I can't wait for Marijuana carts to appear.. Nothing screams fun like dropping 50 foot down splash when you're high as a kite..

 

[csmat99]

and it was definitely a cart and not a kiosk?

There isn't a difference between kiosk and cart. The little tiny trailer bar that is right before EE. You can grab a beer from there in 10 seconds. I don't think anyone is talking about an old guy with a plastic tray yelling get you bud lite right here!!

 

[larryz]

so true - cans are cool- ask Can Solo!

I have a bad feeling about this...

 

[donaldtoo]

 

[Marlins1]

I'm all for this if it is set up for responsible consumption. Beer and wine only in most restaurants. Themed mild drinks where appropriate like Skipper's Canteen. Alcohol in restaurants only, can't leave the facility with a drink and maybe even require a food purchase with any drink purchase.

 

[Jon81uk]

There isn't a difference between kiosk and cart.

Personally I think there is a difference, an ice bath full of aluminium beer bottles looks tacking. But a proper kiosk with walls and a counter serving drinks feels more appropriate.

Also someone did report seeing plastic tray hawkers at DHS.

Also to add, I am for alcohol in table service in the Magic Kingdom but not from anywhere else inMK. But although already there in the other parks, I think it should be only from kiosks, bars and restaurants not from the ice bath snack stands.

 

[ScoutN]

In September we actually started drinking the minute the Tune-in Lounge opened up. Drinking is mandatory at DHS.

That place is unbearable now. Every time we try to go inside of there it is a screaming jungle gym of a waiting room for 50's.

 

[csmat99]

Personally I think there is a difference, an ice bath full of aluminium beer bottles looks tacking. But a proper kiosk with walls and a counter serving drinks feels more appropriate.

Also someone did report seeing plastic tray hawkers at DHS.

The plastic tray with beers are only in fantasmic or right outside the street that leads to it when busy and they don't hawk like at baseball games. They are basically some young kids being asked to walk around. And the place I was referring to has nothing inside for customers to go into. It's basically a carnival trailer with theming outside to match the EE area. So only difference between that and cart is size. And you saying cart is different then a metal tub of beers with a person selling them. There is nothing wrong with grabbing a beer and a pretzel at a cart while getting your kid a churro and soda. You can do it pretty much anywhere else. Broadway shows, concerts, orchestras, sporting events. People that embarrass themselves will find a way regardless. This country always had issues with Alcohol because of it's roots. Thankfully we are finally growing up.