<P> In the 1970s, Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller renewed the enforcement of Kansas's prohibition, even raiding Amtrak trains traveling through Kansas to stop illegal liquor sales . He also forced airlines to stop serving liquor while traveling through Kansas airspace . In 2013 it is likely that these restrictions would be found unconstitutional under the Supreme Court's decision in Granholm v. Heald, 544 U.S. 460 (2005). </P> <P> Finally, in 1986, the electorate voted to repeal the prohibition on open saloons in Kansas, effective January 1, 1987 . The Legislature thereafter amended the Liquor Control Act to regulate and license sales of alcohol in bars in any county which had approved the 1986 Amendment or did so subsequently and only in towns with a population greater than 11,000 (lowered to 5,000 in 2000). Sunday sale of liquor was prohibited, but Sunday sale of CMB was permitted in restaurants deriving more than 30% of their profits from food . All of these new establishments and allowances were subject to a 10% "drink tax ." Grocery stores were prohibited from selling any liquor besides 3.2% ABW beer . </P> <P> In 2003, the District Court of Wyandotte County ruled that the ban on Sunday liquor sales was unconstitutional because it did not apply uniformly to all communities . The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the ruling . By then, two counties and 23 cities had adopted laws permitting Sunday liquor sales . Effective November 15, 2005, the Legislature amended the Liquor Control Act to permit cities and counties to allow Sunday liquor sales . Sales are prohibited on Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas . Since June 2012, bars are able to offer happy - hour specials after more than 25 years of being able to reduce prices only if they'd done so for the entire day . Liquor stores are able to offer unlimited free samples of beer, wine and liquor . And the growing business of microdistilleries is freed to produce up to 50,000 gallons of liquor a year, offer free samples and sell bottles of their product, much as microbreweries have done . Oenophiles have some new options too . Farm wineries are able to offer samples and sell their products at their farms and at special events, such as the Midwest Winefest in April where vineyards previously could offer samples but had to direct customers to their farms or the Internet to buy a bottle or case of vino . Finally, the state has defined Kansas wine: one that has at least 30 percent of ingredients grown in - state . </P> <P> Kansas law divides alcohol into six categories, each of which is regulated differently . "Alcoholic liquor" includes spirits, wine, and beer containing over 3.2% alcohol by weight; spirits are defined as any distilled alcoholic beverage, including brandy, rum, whiskey, and gin, among others . A "cereal malt beverage" is beer containing less than 3.2% alcohol by weight . A "nonalcoholic malt beverage" is beer containing less than 0.5% alcohol by weight . "Domestic table wine" is wine containing 14% or less alcohol by volume, manufactured by farm wineries in Kansas from products grown in Kansas . "Domestic fortified wine" is wine containing between 14% and 20% alcohol by volume, similarly made in Kansas . "Domestic beer" is beer containing 8% or less alcohol by weight and is manufactured by microbreweries from Kansas - grown agricultural products . </P>

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