What are your liquor laws?

in some states (Indiana is one) you can't drink on Election Day!

er, I should say, the bars are closed for sure and possibly you can't buy in stores either. Nothing to stop you drinking down your reserves though.

what's the ridiculous airplane-liquor bottle state they talked about on the daily show?

Lex, KY: No booze on Sunday or election day (until the polls close)! Bars close at 2:30am.

Oh except you can still buy booze at restaurants on Sunday. Restaurants qualify as having more the 50% of revenues coming from food sales.

(See also: Arbitrary State Liquor Laws! Outrage! )

That was South Carolina, teeny. It was finally done away with in November. Next stop, crazy-assed Full Service Gas states!

liquour stores close at 9pm. no beer before noon. nothing on sundays. bars close at 2pm.

2 am bar close (subject to local authorities shutting down at 1). liquor stores open until 10, except sat. when it's 8, and sun. not at all.

grocery stores & gas stations can sell beer whenever but it's 3.2

NO CLOSING TIME
EVERY GAS STATION AND DRUGSTORE SELLS LIQUOR
DRIVE-THROUGH DAIQUIRI SHOPS

New Orleans is so great sometimes.

I don't even know what the liquor laws are in Chicago -- I imagine that if it were *ever* a real problem to get liquor, I would have payed more attention to the laws. I think the convenience stores have to stop selling hard liquor at 2. But then you just go to a 4am bar. And then to a BYO bar. No worries.

2x on Chicago.

In MI bars closed at 2 AM every day, beer/wine/liquor could be sold at any grocery store or gas station, and there were only a couple of days (Xmas, New Year's Day(?)) where sales were outright banned.

CT sounds a lot like MN.

yeah in TX only beer and wine can be sold in grocery stores/gas stations. and then many counties are dry and you can't get shit.

Mississippi: Liquor and wine only in package stores. The state buys the booze from a limited list and the retailers have to buy from the state. Beer: limited to 5% by volume alcohol content. No alcohol sales on Sunday. Beer sales allowed between 10 a.m. and midnight. Liquor stores have to be closed by 10 p.m., I believe.

Monroe County: dry. Exception: Aberdeen is wet inside city limits.

Bars close by midnight. When I lived in Oxford, they had a local exception: bars could close at 1:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday when Ole Miss had a home football game.

The alcohol laws are what I hate most about this goddamn state. At least the air is clean.

MY liquor laws? Here are a few:

Right of first refusal on 10% of any liquor coming through my door. (Percentage may change without prior notice depending on vintage or even whim)

Intemperate mixing of bad liquor combos like red wine & tequila, ouzo & schnapps, baileys and grappa, may be punishable by spins, colorful long distance vomiting, and blackouts.

If you serve your guests any liquor (save by specific request) that you wouldn't dream of drinking yourself, you have earned the right to be referred to by the name of genitalia, any gender, any species.

You cannot refuse someone permission to sleep on your bathroom floor for the night if they can no longer articulate their address. In certain circumstances you may move them to the closet or back landing.

I live in a dry neighborhood in a wet county.
My brother lives in a wet neighborhood in a dry county.
Soon as I figure out Arkansas liquor laws, I'll let you know.

California:
No bar, restaurant, liquor store/supermarket sales between 2am and 6am. Otherwise anything goes.

I live in Utah. LOCK THREAD.

I've heard you can't be served if your head has been on the bar (in CA).

South Carolina has the airplane-bottle rule. A Long Island Iced Tea in SC runs you like $12 (even at a dive) (a minibottle cannot be used on more than one drink)

When I lived in CA, nothing cheered me up more than going into the Liquor Barn.

My liquor laws: Stop drinking when the police officer asks you if you're okay.

Yeah, I remember Liquor Barn. They closed my local one years ago (maybe all the CA stores?). Now we have BevMo, which is similar but kinda sterile.

Well, Prohibition left too many scars on Chicago, plus it has a huge Catholic population, so liquor laws don't go over very well.

However, there is an increasing amount of de facto prohibition going on in the form of licensing and complaints about bars and clubs 'making noise' and 'lowering property values'. As an example, a well-known gay dance club in Boys Town is currently being harassed by alleged 'neighbors' who live in a condo that was recently built next door.

This nonsense was a factor in the E2 disaster on the south side. Not enough clubs = dangerous overcrowding.

Granted, it's a 'Libertarian' organ, but this paper by Cato gives you some insight on some of the new Prohibitionist tactics going on.

in WA state, it's probably no different than most states:

Beer and wine for sale practically anywhere til 2am every day.

Hard liquor can only be sold in state liquor stores, which usually have limited hours, the latest of which close at 8pm.

Bars can serve any type of alcoholic drink (legal in the U.S.) til whenever it closes.. usually 2am at the latest.

The thing that's about to change in Washington state is that the state liquor stores will soon be open on Sundays.

Ontario, Canada:

* All liquor stores are controlled by the Liquor Control Board Of Ontario, so there's no beer or liquor at convenience stores.
* Toronto has an LCBO-run liquor store or beer store in pretty much every neighbourhood. Most of them are open seven days a week (shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays). Liquor stores sell beer, wine, spirits, and alcoholic sodas (Smirnoff Ice, etc). Beer stores sell, well, beer (actually, quite a huge selection) and some alcholic sodas.
* Most restaurants are fully licensed to serve booze.
* Last call is 2 AM.

i love love love love love 4am bars (5am on saturday night/sunday mornings)

DC: Liquor stores must close on Sunday.
Grocery and convenience stores can get licenses to sell beer and wine (7 days a week), but the laws are baroque.
No off-premises sales of alcohol allowed before 9 a.m. or after 10 p.m.
For bars, last call is 2 a.m. (3 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday).
Restaurants theoretically can serve drinks 24/7, but no places in DC that I know of stay open much beyond midnight.
We can get some surprisingly good stuff in DC, because wholesalers are not required to maintain warehouses inside the district--very good for retailers that are interested in microbrews or small wine producers.

Arkansas recently granted its wet counties the power to enable liquor stores to open on Sundays. Many stores aren't so eager to do it however. Why pay wages and other operational costs for a seventh day when they make two days' worth of profits on Saturday when everyone is buying their "Sunday Beer"?

I am so glad Sam is on board this thread to answer this question, because I have no idea what the regulations are. I didn't even know it wasn't regular practice to sell alcoholic things other than beer or wine in supermarkets or convenience stores. I just thought that because those were the "potent potables" that were most likely to be consumed with food that the stores felt it prudent just to stock those, and to leave the rest to liquor stores. Um, wow.

My liquor law is that I don't have much before lunchtime, and after that just a little drizzle until 6pm.

I won't drink before noon, either. No whiskey under any circumstances. If you puke at my place you clean up my place. No discussions of whether good beer tastes better than bad beer--all beer tastes bad. No NA beer. I stop drinking once I get full. No drinking until I pass out. No candy liqueurs ever.

Colorado:

Bars close at 2, but are open 7 days a week
Liquour, wine, and regular beer only in Liqour Stores, which close on Sunday.
3.2% beer is available in groceries 7 days a week.

Colorado used to have a drinking law of 18 for 3.2% beer, so some of these rules are left over from then. There even used to be 3.2 clubs.

Umm. Make that a drinking AGE of 18.

Pennsylvania- Good lord we're living in the dark ages here. You can only buy beer in "distributors" which means you have to buy by the case. They are closed on Sundays. You can generally only buy 6 packs in bars which means you pay ridiculously inflated prices and your choices are somewhat limited. Wine and liquor are sold in "state stores" run by the state. They have normal hours. I don't mind the state stores idea so much because I don't buy much wine or liqour and I guess I'd rather the state get the money than private industry. Funny how that's somewhat of a socialist ideal for a fairly conservative state. Thankfully our bars call last call at 2AM. Delaware is even more sad. They call last call at 1 and you can't even smoke in bars there. I no longer vacation in Delaware for this reason. The puritanical history of our nation still has a strong grip on many of our laws.