No we don't sell beer; or odd liquor laws and SCs

[Brighid45]

Try explaining to your visiting out-of-state friends that you're stopping at a restaurant with a bar so you can pick up some wine coolers. (Yeah, I live in Pennsy.) You pay through the nose for them there too!

When I lived in Missouri a few years ago, you couldn't buy any alcohol on Sunday mornings until 11 a.m.

[PuckishOne]

Aha!

Lousiana has drive-thru liquor stores - you literally drive through the building. When I was living down there they didn't even have an open container law.

That might be what I was thinking of. I only remembered that it was somewhere in the south. Thanks!

No open-container law?? Wow. Don't get me wrong, I'm a good drinker myself, but generally speaking I can stand to put it in the back of the car until I get home. The one time I didn't - I couldn't, there was too much crap jammed into my vehicle (which is a sport-utility wagon, so no trunk per se) - I think I obeyed every single traffic sign all the way home.

[JoeKnows]

There's no such laws in Wisconsin. Liquor and beer are sold right in grocery stores. No state-run liquor stores or blue laws.

Is it any wonder we're a bunch of drunks?

I blame the SC's, myself.

[HYHYBT]

Anybody know where it is that they have the drive-up windows on the liquor stores? I want to say Texas, but I'm not sure...

I don't know whether they sell liquor or only beer, never having had an interest in purchasing either, but the fairly small Georgia town I live in has at least two. One is at the end of Hospital Road

[MadMike]

Hmm, I wonder how I missed this thread before?

I'm from PA myself, and I agree with the customer -- that is stupid that supermarkets and the like can't sell beer. But there's nothing you can do about that. Some customers seem to think that we, the lowly retail workers, can just wave our magic wands and change the laws, prices, physical limitations, etc.

On a side note, I used to think that alcohol sales were regulated the same way everywhere. It wasn't until I was 17 that I found out otherwise, when I was taking a trip to Canada with my dad and his then-girlfriend, and we stopped by a 7-11 in New York on the way, and I saw beer, wine coolers, etc.

[AFpheonix]

We can get beer and wine from grocery stores, but you have to go to state liquor stores to get anything more amusing in Oregon.

It blew my mind in Tulsa when I was there last month. Not only did they not have any decent dairy or fresh produce offerings in the several grocery stores we went to, but you had to get wine from the liquor stores. Living in a wine-snob area like Washington and Yamhill counties are, we're used to a huge selection at home. There was hardly anything at the liquor store

[Titi]

Anybody know where it is that they have the drive-up windows on the liquor stores? I want to say Texas, but I'm not sure...

I can top that in TX, when I lived there, the next town over had a store called Daquari Express, and they had a drive-thru and would make you a frozen mixed drink, to go! (and yes they were alcoholic, I had some. Coworker brought them in for us one night. (I actually did wait until I got home, other co-worker didn't) Plain unmarked cups with lids and straws.)

[cougar_guy04]

Anybody know where it is that they have the drive-up windows on the liquor stores? I want to say Texas, but I'm not sure...

There are at least two drive through liquor stores in my hometown in Illinois . . . then again, I come from a backwoods redneck town in IL too.

[jnd4rusty]

[QUOTE=Cia;8501]South Dakota but the only liquor store with a drive-up window that I can think of is Canyon Lake Liquors. It might be the only one in the state for all I know.

There is a drive up liquor store on Easr North street also..it is on the corner of East North and Lacrosse..on the right hand side if you are heading to Wally's on Lacrosse. Its in that motel complex. No I have never gone there..I just noticed it when I was waiting for the light to change. I thought it was quite weird!! Expecially when you want to eliminate drinking and driving..and then some brainless twit says.."oh let's have drive thru liquor stores"

[PuckishOne]

Living in a wine-snob area like Washington and Yamhill counties are, we're used to a huge selection at home.

OT: Living in Seattle as long as I have, I find myself involuntarily sneering at any store cooler with fewer than 20 microbrews on offer. Yes, I am a Beer Snob.

[/hijack]

Okay, seriously, people...not only drive-through liquor stores, but drive-through drinks as well?? Wow. Just wow.

[Tanasi]

Here in Tennessee you need a rather large book to hold all the liquor, wine, and beer laws because they differ from county to county and city/township to city/township. Some counties are dry, in that they don't sell any beer, wine nor liquor, some counties allow beer but not liquor and wine. Now dig this the county in which Jack Daniels is distilled is dry and AFAIK there is no plans to change that.
The state regulates liquor and wine, the counties regulate beer, and some cities also have beer boards. All citys and town can regulate business hours.
You can only buy liquor at liquor store, you can only buy wine at winerys or liquor stores, liquor stores can not sell beer nor can wineries. Grocery stores can sell beer but not all do. Micro-brew stuff is few and far between.
Now all that being typed I don't like beer, never have never will. What I do like is very expensive so I make it myself. I currenty have two batches of mead and about soon when the apples and peaches some in I'll be making some hard cider and hard peach necter. I don't like apricots. I've been know to make some wine but I'm not crazy about it. Now I'll neither confirm nor deny having a still. I am a hillbilly after all.

[cheese]

UK alcohol laws are great.. in that there aren't really any
Pretty much anywhere can sell alcohol.. theres now 24 hour drinking (so now our store can serve alcohol any time we're open) and of course, you only need to be 18! You can also have beer/cider/wine with a meal in a pub/resturant when you are only 16

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I think it's ironic as all get out the the PA liquor laws are what they are. There is a two week long SCA event in PA (in fact, it is going on as I type and I am missing it because I am a new mom )

To say a booze is consumed there is an understatement. In fact, one place I have bought a keg from says they could close shop for the rest of the year and still stay in business on just what they make in August. At this thing booze is a valuable commodity...it's been used as currency, no lie (we had a smith fix our wagon for a case of black and tans once.)

So the difficulty in getting it up is what I have always was an ironic twist (probably, that's why we CAN use it for currency. It's like cigs in a prison.)

Booze is the only consumable I shlep to PA. I buy it down here, where there is a "package" store on every street corner, beer and wine in every grocery store, and a large distributor with two stores right here in town that have GREAT prices.

(More irony...I frequently return from this thing with MORE booze than when I started out. Our Christmas party is partly fuelled by "Pennsic Booty", leftover booze from our August vacation. )

My experience with booze in PA has always been while I couldn't buy it, I sure had enough of it fall right into my lap.

[Tria]

Anybody know where it is that they have the drive-up windows on the liquor stores? I want to say Texas, but I'm not sure...

Got some here in Illinois.

[LostMyMind]

There is one not too far from my house.