What kind of alcohol politics are there where you live?
Here in Finland, nothing above 4.7% ABV can be sold in normal stores - only in Alko, the state-run monopoly between 9AM and 8pm Mon-Fri, 9-6 Saturday, closed on Sundays and holidays. Beer and cider that's sold in normal stores can be sold 7 days a week, between 9 AM and 9 PM. If you walk down the street drinking a beer or cider, generally cops won't even look at you twice unless you're staggering. Even then, they likely just pour your beer out and tell you go to home. It's pretty hard to get taken to jail for public intoxication unless you're causing a lot of trouble or passed out on the street and it's freezing temperatures outside. You can buy weak beer (up to 2.8% ABV) when you're 16, every kind of alcohol when you're 18. Night clubs are allowed to raise the age limits if they want, I've seen them as high as 24 years old to enter. Not uncommon for groups of 18 year old guys to walk down the street with an open case of beer, each having one in hand.
Kind of blows my mind when I read that this Kentucky man has been arrested over 1000 times for public intoxication!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ted-1-500-times-spends-Thanksgiving-jail.html
Here in Finland, nothing above 4.7% ABV can be sold in normal stores - only in Alko, the state-run monopoly between 9AM and 8pm Mon-Fri, 9-6 Saturday, closed on Sundays and holidays. Beer and cider that's sold in normal stores can be sold 7 days a week, between 9 AM and 9 PM. If you walk down the street drinking a beer or cider, generally cops won't even look at you twice unless you're staggering. Even then, they likely just pour your beer out and tell you go to home. It's pretty hard to get taken to jail for public intoxication unless you're causing a lot of trouble or passed out on the street and it's freezing temperatures outside. You can buy weak beer (up to 2.8% ABV) when you're 16, every kind of alcohol when you're 18. Night clubs are allowed to raise the age limits if they want, I've seen them as high as 24 years old to enter. Not uncommon for groups of 18 year old guys to walk down the street with an open case of beer, each having one in hand.
Kind of blows my mind when I read that this Kentucky man has been arrested over 1000 times for public intoxication!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ted-1-500-times-spends-Thanksgiving-jail.html