Distilled Spirits Council introduces its own grocery-store ballot measures

The Distilled Spirits Council — a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing the hard liquor industry — on Wednesday announced that it has submitted a pair of ballot initiatives to the state of Colorado that it aims to have included on the November ballot.

The measures would serve as competition to another that is backed by grocery stores that seeks to allow sales of full-strength beer and wine at grocery stores in the state.

The Distilled Spirit Council’s first measure would allow the sales of liquor at grocery stores in addition to full-strength beer and wine. The second measure, pitched as a sort…