Ordering a beer in Watkinsville

Last night I went to Gautreau's an ordered a beer with my three appetizers in Watkinsville. While this might seem routine in Athens-Clarke, it represents nothing short of a historic occassion in the previously dry town of Watkinsville. You can still buy beer and wine in grocery and convenience stores outside of the municipalities' city limits. Now Watkinsville has put an end to brown bagging at the restaurants. I ate at the bar and gazed at a dozen pedestrian bottles of wine and more than three dozen different hot sauces. Two gentlemen sitting next to me did not have their IDs and did not drink. The woman behind the bar had already rejected a fake ID as well. She checked mine also. She seemed to think that liquor was imminent, but I think that the Board of Commissioners will follow suit soon enough and allow beer and wine in restaurants outside the city limits.