What are your state's Sunday beer laws?

Why did I even get up yet?!? No beer 'til 1pm.... I shoulda drank more last night!!! ARGH nm.. I ran out... oh dear...

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law just changed from 10 a.m. last year

As I listen to Garrison Keillor and Johnny Cash I wonder why :D

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is Miller time.
We have gone from the dryest of the dry to the wettest of the wet in my lifetime. It has been an evolution.
Now I believe you can buy beer most days from 7AM to 2AM and Sundays 10AM to midnight or so.
If not correct it is close.

Used to be NO BEER ON SUNDAY. My old man used to buy 3 or 4 cases on Saturdays.
My Dad used to be in a constant fight with the state liquor laws. He knew every damn trick in the book.
Everybody who wanted to buy bottled alcohol would have to apply to the state liquor commission to get a book that would allow a person to get I think one bottle/week.
- So my Dad would pay his non-drinking friends to get books and either give him the book or go make purchases for him.
- The old guys behind the counter who were supposed to watch for such shenanigans knew my Dad variously as "Bob", Don",Denny" etc.

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That was a running line we said to a guy when I was in the Navy. Good times :)

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gonna use that liquor book? I could use an extra one.

Seriously, it was 1:00 until the Carolina Panthers started playing.

I'm in NC and always thought you were as well...

I musta drank through that change. Woohoo! 11 minutes!

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Sorry, I don't actually drink, so I don't pay all that much attention. But the law just took effect I believe sometime in late March/early April. Used to be no sales on Sundays until Noon. Now, retailers can pay extra to the state to extend the license and start selling at 7:00 AM on Sundays. The vast majority of the stores I've been in such as Kroger and Meijer grocery stores, the various chain drug stores, etc., all have signs posted saying they can now sell alcohol at 7:00 AM, so I guess the market is lucrative enough on Sunday mornings to make it worthwhile. IIRC, the permit/license extension wasn't cheap, something like $5,000 to $15,000 depending upon the sales volume of the retailer. I don't know how this law affects bars and restaurants -- can they now serve Mimosas with Sunday brunch?

More spice and less bubbles :D

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That's one thing I miss about Nebraska -- sales on Sunday after noon.

I remember, after Hugo, when I was doing Charleston I had to "join" a social club just to get into a bar on Sundays :D

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I got confused in memory lapse :D

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They've relaxed the laws for restaurants (and sporting events) over the last twenty years but still no carry-out on Sunday.

Oddly, I didn't drink as much back then...but!

It was the coolest thing when a woman picked me up. Yup, -THAT- was the coolest thing. I got a bonus though. She took me to a party on that Saturday night where I met hella cool people. My fears of satan worshipping and animal sacrifices were subsided lol

I guess you gotta do it on Saturday night if you want to drink in Indiana :P

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But that's every morning. Sunday is no different than any other day here.

That would drive a drinking man crazy! What if you run out? Do they have "bootleggers" like they do here?

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But we do have all-night liquor store clerks with loopholes in their scruples.

The other day I walked out of a gas station mini-mart with a six of Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA -- on sale!! :beer:

And all that goodness, as well as Anchor, Lagunitas, Gordon Biersch, and even a few from SoCal, can be enjoyed any time except between 2 and 6.

Which is ridiculous. Sometimes I want to get drunk on Sunday, but I can't because nothing is open. x( :grr:

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Hehe, it seems like Sundays can be the BEST day if all is going well :)

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Though there will be a vote in Nov. for alcohol sales in individual counties. I will definitely be voting yes.

lol. I guess it is white laws or blue laws.. something.

Vote! Vote! :D

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stupid law in a stupid state.

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ha, seriously though this State is backwards.


I didn't know about the Vote on Liquor Sales, Rebel. I bet it gets voted down by all the (not)FUNdies. :eyes:

night so that you will have booze on Sunday.

so it's just ingrained in my head "You can't Buy Beer On Sundays", period. It'd be amazing to have that law changed.

Some counties are dry on Sunday. In mine, up until a several of years ago, one couldn't buy liquor at all. Then, we were allowed to buy beer or wine on in restaurants in my city. A few years ago, they changed the city laws to allow the sale of beer and wine in stores with permits. I think it became county-wide last year. The laws were changed because restaurant and grocery store/quickie-mart owners were complaining that they were losing business to establishments in nearby Augusta, GA (Richmond & Columbia Counties), which permitted alcohol sales on Sundays.

I do believe one can buy alcohol on Sundays in the Atlanta area--at least in DeKalb County. And, I KNOW you can get a drink in Savannah on a Sunday, because I have done so.

You can get in restaurants, I meant like buying it at a store.

In Richmond Co., GA, you can buy beer and wine in stores on Sunday. I'm not positive about Columbia Co., but I'm pretty sure you can there, as well.

There are laws in place State wide against alcohol sales on Sunday. There are some exceptions to that, fine. :shrug:

All I did was point out that it applied to stores as well as restaurants, which you didn't seem to understand the first time, based on your reply.

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How ironic that RebelOne posted just before me that what you are trying to state is LAW in GA - County by County- is actually up for a vote this November...


I don't know what else to say except go look it up :hi:

but you cannot buy alcohol anywhere else.

Fortunately, I live on the border with Ohio. I think I can go over there after 6am and get beer and wine. No liquor sales over there on Sunday, though.

Everything happens so fast at that point. Going fast in the wrong direction isn't always good :D

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Can purchse beer from grocery store as early as 8:00 a.m.

hehe, I kid :D

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Most of the state control booze shops open at 10am on Sundays -- if you want the hard stuff. Beer and wine can be sold thru any licensed store from 6am to 1am any day. So if you want to start your day right, come to NH.

The only reason for having such laws is related to religion, right?

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How they justify this now is beyond me. Separation of Church & State my ass.

11 AM here in Saskatchewan.

Liquor and wine just got the 12-5 sales a few years ago as well.

We've got some bars that open at 7 every day of the week - graveyard shift customers need beer too.

Oh - this is PA.

This is Texas.

Hard liquor is only sold in liquor stores. It is not sold in grocery stores. The hard liquor stores are closed on Sunday, and close at 9 pm on all other days. I'm not sure when they open.

Once I needed to get some booze for a hot drink for my sore throat. I didn't realize the liquor stores close at 9 pm, since I'm not a drinker.

My county recently went wet for beer and wine for off-premises consumption. That's called a "beverage cartage" permit.

We have to drive to the next county for the hard stuff. I marinate herbs in 151 rum.

home of the famous German breakfast; Pretzel, wursts and beer.

malt beverages, unfortified wine, fortified wine, or mixed beverages between the hours of 2:00 A.M. and 7:00 A.M., or to consume any of those alcoholic beverages between the hours of 2:30 A.M. and 7:00 A.M., in any place that has been issued a permit under G.S. 18B‑1001 ... Sunday Hours. – It shall be unlawful to sell or consume alcoholic beverages on any licensed premises from the time at which sale or consumption must cease on Sunday morning until 12:00 Noon on that day .. A city may adopt an ordinance prohibiting in the city the retail sale of malt beverages, unfortified wine, and fortified wine during any or all of the hours from 12:00 Noon on Sunday until 7:00 A.M. on the following Monday. A county may adopt an ordinance prohibiting, in the parts of the county outside any city, the retail sale of malt beverages, unfortified wine, and fortified wine during any or all of the hours from 12:00 Noon on Sunday until 7:00 A.M. on the following Monday. Neither a city nor a county, however, may prohibit those sales in establishments having brown‑bagging or mixed beverages permits.

Hard liquor here is only through state store, closed Sundays. Last I looked, we had some dry counties. I think the above says beer sales must cease from 2AM Sunday to noon Sunday, and city/county may further prohibit sales between noon Sunday til 7AM Monday (except for brown‑bagging or mixed beverages permitees)

8am- 9pm or midnight depending on the city/town

In stores. :(

High taxes, great alcohol rules.