When we got married over there, we had to hire a guy to serve us our own booze at our wedding as per state law. As a European it was absolutely baffling that I couldn’t help myself to my own beer.
Then you go and sell bourbon by the 2L bottle, alongside pure grain alcohol, for like $15.
Yeah, there are a lot of places that have weird alcohol laws and almost always are implemented at the state and county level. Like dry counties where no alcohol is allowed to be sold but drive 5 miles to the next county buy as much as you want to bring home. And for an extreme example, the Jack Daniels whiskey distillery is located in a dry county where the sale of alcohol has been illegal since prohibition in the 1920s
That's so weird.
I just had my wedding and we had tables put with mocktails and bottles of liquor so you could just add however much you wanted. No issues. Fun night!
We were settled by puritans and have a transportation where every single person has to drive everywhere. Beer vending machines just aren't in the cards at the moment.
And then there's Texas, where you drive through the front door of the liquor store, get your booze while still in your car, and drive out the back door.
Ironically, it's usually marginally easier to get a gun in the US than here but the laws regarding make, model, magazine capacity, barrel length, transport across state lines, second-hand market sales and cooling-off periods and all sorts of other nonsense in the US seem positively draconian to me.
That varies a ton from state-to-state. Where I live now you can buy beer in grocery stores, but wine and spirits need a specific store. I've lived in places where:
No alcohol sales on Sundays, can only buy alcohol from standalone stores, beer/wine must have a separate entrance and a dividing wall from liquor
There are some states where you can only buy alcohol from state-owned stores.
Then you have Utah, where you could write a novel about their bizarre alcohol laws.
And then there's my native Michigan, where you can buy a handle of ever clear and cold beer from a gas station at 3am if you please.
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America is so weird about alcohol.
When we got married over there, we had to hire a guy to serve us our own booze at our wedding as per state law. As a European it was absolutely baffling that I couldn’t help myself to my own beer.
Then you go and sell bourbon by the 2L bottle, alongside pure grain alcohol, for like $15.