Retiring ABC Board head Mac Gipson said Alabama’s control of alcohol serves the taxpayers well. Alabama ranks below the national average in liquor consumption per capita but ranks among the highest states in per-capita revenue from spirits.
for the agencies that provide critical services and also help those affected by those alcohol-related problems, including the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Human Resources, he said.
The ABC Board is the wholesaler for the private stores, bars, and restaurants it licenses for alcohol sales. They pay the same as the retail customer except that they get a 14 percent discount on cases.“That has somewhat insulated us from having to go to the Legislature or anything else for money,” Gipson said. “Because every time the industry increases the price of the product, our markup goes up. And the tax goes up. So it benefits Alabama.
The private stores don’t always agree with ABC Board decisions. After lawmakers passed a bill to authorize home deliveries of liquor last year, the board began making plans to deliver from its retail stores. The Alabama Beverage Licensees Association, which represents the private stores,against that idea. The ABLA said the delivery law applied only to companies licensed by the ABC Board, not the ABC’s own stores.
Hoot Gipson was head of the draft board in Autauga County and decided it was time for his son to go in the Army, which would offer the benefits of the G.I. Bill. Gipson recalls boarding a bus with four friends to Fort Jackson, S.C., for processing. During almost four years in the Army, he served at Fort Benning, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, and Keesler Air Force Base, where he studied to become a control tower operator.
His sons later sold the business, although the four stores in Prattville, Montgomery, and Millbrook still carry the Gipson name. “He hired somebody he believed would do a good job and then he let them do their job,” Thigpen said. “He wasn’t snooping around every day to see what you were doing.”
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