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re: Interesting Liquor Laws, State to State
Posted on 5/3/19 at 6:42 pm to El Magnifico
Posted on 5/3/19 at 6:42 pm to El Magnifico
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I was in Plano back in 2003 and if I remember correctly you had to have some kind of membership card to drink in restaurants. Thought that was pretty crazy.
That sounds about right, years ago I was working somewhere around Tyler,Texas and got told the same thing at a Mexican restaurant. That was definitely a WTF moment for me, coming from SE Louisiana.
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Posted on 5/3/19 at 10:57 pm to BillF
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When I used to live in Mississippi, not only could not buy beer in a liquor store, you couldn't even buy soft drinks.
From my time stuckinMS, one of the most distinctive memories I had when I first got stuckinMS was the wine & liquor store next door to the beer & cigarette store next door to the grocery store. You'd just stop in at three different stores all in the same trip to the shopping center.
It was damned ridiculous. You'd hit up the beer and liquor stores first and put everything in your car, then go grocery shopping so your cold groceries wouldn't warm up while you were buying your hooch.
This post was edited on 5/3/19 at 11:08 pm
Posted on 5/4/19 at 12:33 am to TigerstuckinMS
Wisconsin was one of the last states to lower the BAC limit to. O8, and parents can buy their underage kids a beer at the bar if the bartender doesn't have an issue with it.
Posted on 5/4/19 at 6:22 am to Grassy1
Virginia passed a law this year allowing the promotion of Happy Hour drink specials. Previously, bars and restaurants could offer happy hour pricing but couldn't the promote the prices anywhere outside of the establishment. That meant no street signs, no banners, no promotion on social media.
You can't buy alcohol in Massachusetts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
I remember there was some law in VT where you couldn't buy more more than one alcoholic drink at a time without a licensed server bringing the drinks to the party. It was dumb. Basically one hand had to be free at all times. Or that was the legend told to us.
You can't buy alcohol in Massachusetts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
I remember there was some law in VT where you couldn't buy more more than one alcoholic drink at a time without a licensed server bringing the drinks to the party. It was dumb. Basically one hand had to be free at all times. Or that was the legend told to us.
Posted on 5/4/19 at 10:31 am to McVick
I remember in South Carolina when they poured every drink out of those "airplane" bottles.
They also closed at midnight Saturday at 12. Everyone had to leave, but you could reenter the "Private club" after paying a $1 initiation fee.
They also closed at midnight Saturday at 12. Everyone had to leave, but you could reenter the "Private club" after paying a $1 initiation fee.
Posted on 5/6/19 at 2:04 pm to nuwaydawg
A few people have talked about Tennessee. I lived there for about 7 years starting right after Katrina. The law was that grocery stores could sell anything with ABV under a specific percentage and the rest had to be at a liquor store (don't remember the percentage...something in the 6-7% area). So liquor stores could carry Andygator, Chimay and the like.
I hated it when I moved there before growing to love it. There was a really nice liquor store a half mile from my house called Cheers. And they literally knew not just my name but what kind of wines I liked. So I would walk in and someone would say, "We just got a new wine in that you might like. It's big and bold." Got to try a lot of stuff that way. You don't get that service at Rouses!
I hated it when I moved there before growing to love it. There was a really nice liquor store a half mile from my house called Cheers. And they literally knew not just my name but what kind of wines I liked. So I would walk in and someone would say, "We just got a new wine in that you might like. It's big and bold." Got to try a lot of stuff that way. You don't get that service at Rouses!
Posted on 5/6/19 at 2:30 pm to TH03
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Texas
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Can't buy drinks at a restaurant until 10AM, but must be with food
You can damn sure by champagne at a restaurant before 10am. Or, so I'm told.
Posted on 5/6/19 at 2:48 pm to Mikey99
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When I lived in PA in the 90s they had separate stores just for beer and you couldn’t buy it anywhere else. Wine and liquor were sold in another state run store. And you had to buy beer by the case. And it wasn’t cold. If you wanted a 6-pack you had to buy it from a bar at a ridiculous price. Not sure if this is how it is now.
This was still the case when I was there in 2017.
Alabama (at least the larger towns) have come a long way.
Posted on 5/6/19 at 2:58 pm to TTU97NI
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Throw Oklahoma in the mix as well. 3.2 beer, no sales on election day. Some might have changed, but damn.
Oklahoma got updated liquor laws in October 2018. Full strength beer and wine in grocery and convenience stores. Liquor stores can now sell cold beverages (before everything had to be room temp - no cold beer, no cold champagne, etc...).
Not sure if liquor stores have to still close on state holidays or not. Definitely used to be that way. The only thing you could by on July 4th last year was low-point (3.2 ABW) beer at grocery or liquor stores.
Posted on 5/6/19 at 4:03 pm to hiltacular
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Georgia had a bunch of crazy laws back when I was in college but I think for the most part all have been normalized. Just recently they allowed breweries to sell their own beer
GA still has the stupid protectionist law that a person or business can not have more than 2 retail package locations selling liquor within the state. This is why the Total Wine about 3 miles away from me that opened 6 months ago can not sell liquor as TW already has 2 operating locations in metro ATL that sell liquor. A person can own multiple bar/restaurant locations and sell liquor drinks. Makes no fn sense whatsoever and is as archaic as the ongoing 3 tier system and the somewhat recently abolished maximum 6% ABV beer limit that was crushing craft brewing.
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