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Senator seeks to tap out keg beer

David Goodwin / Managing Editor

Long considered a requirement at college social functions, the beer keg may soon be going the way of the dodo, if state Sen. Bobby Singleton has anything to do with it.

Singleton, D-Greensboro, who admitted to enjoying his share of keg beer at fraternity functions when he was at Alabama State, has sponsored a bill in the Alabama Legislature that will outlaw retail sales of the high-volume beer barrels.

Singleton said he's become one of Montgomery's most-called lawmakers since introducing the bill in the state Senate last week. The Senate passed the measure 30-0.

"I probably got the first 10 calls from my fraternity brothers," the 1984 Alabama State graduate, a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, said. "They weren't real happy, but this is about looking at the big picture, what's responsible and what's the right thing to do."