Strange Alcohol Laws

[the_bird]

Hopingn to come up in the Spring. I'll let you know and bring up some brews for you to try. I need a better opinion than my neighbors. He'll drink anything alcohol

If it's in March, there's word of a big get-together outside of Boston...

(figure the more I talk about it, the less the chance that Kai can back out of this )

 

[teu1003]

In the late 80s, my buddy Jim and I were playing golf at a PA golf course. At the turn, while Jim was buying snacks, I detoured to the car to get a couple Coors Lights out of the cooler. I arrived at the 10th tee first and put Jims beer on the tee marker while I dug into mine. There was a back-up on #10, and soon the 4some behind us drove over to the tee. One of the guys asked where I had gotten the beers and I told him from the car. He said he was on the board of directors of the golf club and they had an exclusive contract with Budweiser not to serve ANY non-Bud product on the course. He said having a Coors was a violation of the club rules. I asked if he was willing to look the other way just this once since I was visiting from maryland and he said ok but not to let it happen again. Good lord.

We vacation almost every yr on the outer banks of NC and beer and wine are sold freely at any grocery store. One yr we went to the Gatlinburg area of TN. The grocery stores in Pigeon Forge will sell ya all the beer you want , but to get wine or spirits, we needed to drive nearly 10 miles to Gatlinburg. FYI, as SOON as you cross the city limits of gatlinburg, the liquor store is the FIRST store on the left!

 

[Hopfan]

If it's in March, there's word of a big get-together outside of Boston...

(figure the more I talk about it, the less the chance that Kai can back out of this )

Excellent! I get back from Myrtle Beach on March 1 so I'll keep a lookout for that one.

 

[the_bird]

Excellent! I get back from Myrtle Beach on March 1 so I'll keep a lookout for that one.

Keep an eye on the "New England Brew Session and Yankee Ingeniuty" thread. That'll be awesome if you can make it up. Boston's supposed to be coming up (his Dad lives in the area), I imagine most of the NE crew will be there. I'll make sure Evanmars (new guy) makes it out.

Kai, we're going to take over your house, if you like it or not!

 

[Fiery Sword]

(figure the more I talk about it, the less the chance that Kai can back out of this )

If Kai sports, count me in. So let's keep mentioning it.

 

[Focus]

Well...someone's got to represent the Dirty Capitol of the dirty-coast.

All across South Louisiana alcohol is avaliable for sale 24/7. Need a pint of whiskey or six-pack at 4 in the morn? Take a trip to the 24 hour gas-station.

In the bar sections of most towns (and in all of New Orleans) you can drink in public so long as the beverage isn't in a glass container. You will see in every bar in town plastic cups. These are "to-go cups". Heading to a new bar is easy as filling a to-go cup and hitting the streets.

At the 1st of this year they changed the open container laws for vehicles. Up until the end of '06 it was legal to drive with open containers so long as the number of drinks in the car were one less than the number of passengers. 4 people in a car could carry 3 open beverages with them (presumably the driver wouldn't be drinking... ha!).

That little bit of legislation birthed the drive-thru daquire industry. Order a potent cocktail like a happymeal.

Finally, out of pride, I must mention that Louisiana was the last state to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21. It was sometime in the early 90's.

Yeah... I love this place.

Having lived in Utah and now residing in NC - still squarely in the bible belt - That brings a tear to my drunk, bleary eyes. God bless y'all in Louisiana.