# Describe your state's asinine liquor laws. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 15, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662 "2014-11-15T01:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662/141 "2014-11-20T19:56:06Z")
In Minnesota: 1. Liquor stores are closed on Sundays. Some grocery stores have liquor stores attached but those must also be closed on Sundays 2. Recently, Microbreweries were granted the ability to have “taprooms” were they can sell pints or individual servings of beer (but they still cannot sell growlers on Sundays), however, for some reason they aren’t allowed to sell food. Which has led to most of them having agreements with food trucks (or a nearby restaurant that delivers) that will park right outside on the weekend, so if you want some food you walk outside and buy it from the food truck. A really strange law, i dunno kind of makes the experience charming in a way. I can’t believe it has persisted though since it seems like there is a microbrewery on every block in or near Minneapolis. Also, i grew up in PA, and when i first moved to Minnesota i was at the bar and asked to buy a six pack. The bartender looked at me like i had two heads and just said “No.” :smack: Awkward. ---
**Author:** ![runningdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@runningdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runningdude)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662/142 "2014-11-25T19:46:01Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Clerks supervised uscans. They checked IDs. The law was a sap to unions because they were concerned that self-checkout was the future and a job loser. All the law has done however is make grocery lines longer and slower…especially in a college neighborhood like Westwood. While, yes, there is sometimes a clerk at the self-scan lines, most stores only have that position staffed during busy times. Since those infernal machines fail so often, requiring the clerks’ constant attention during peak sales hours, it would be setting that clerk up for failure to also expect them to check ID’s and punch in their code to allow the beer sale. One slip of the mind, and the clerk is fired. I cannot say I disagree with the law even if it as you portray it. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662/143 "2014-11-25T20:22:12Z")
None here in Louisiana. There are no state imposed restrictions. Booze can be purchases 24/7/365 at liquor stores, drug stores, gas stations, grocery stores, etc. Municipalities and parishes are allowed to make restrictions if they want, but you’ll only see that in the northern part of the state. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662/144 "2014-11-27T19:02:07Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Move over y’all, I live in Utah: > > 1. Utah is a “control state,” meaning liquor (i.e. anything over 4% ABV) is sold only at state-run liquor stores, which are few and frankly inconvenient to get to for a lot of people. > 2. And closed on Sundays and all government holidays. > 3. Grocery stores can sell only beer with no more than 4% ABV. No wine, no liquor. (Conversely, liquor stores can’t sell food - or even sodas or mixers.) > 4. Same for the taps in bars and restaurants. No more than 4% ABV. Bottled beer can be higher. > 5. Restaurants that serve liquor (e.g. Applebees) must prepare the beverages behind a wall or partition, so that children cannot see the drinks being made. I’m not kidding, and it’s affectionately called the “Zion curtain.” > 6. You can’t have more than one alcoholic beverage in front of you at once. You can’t even order another drink until you’ve finished the one in front of you. Hells Bells. I thought Sweden was bad. I’m never going to Utah (I’m sure that will disappoint the authorities). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662/145 "2014-11-27T20:20:42Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Johnstown has flooded more than once; therefore, you’re both [right](http://www.jaha.org/FloodMuseum/1936.html). Yeah, I lived through the '77 flood. Some nuts actually said God caused it as punishment for “Slap Shot” being filmed there. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662/146 "2014-11-28T01:01:26Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > Missouri (at least, St. Louis) was founded by French Catholics (with a late influx of Germans). You can buy alcohol anywhere. > > There was a “no booze sales before noon on Sunday” law for a while, but I’m pretty sure that’s gone. Go back far enough, but still in my lifetime, and you couldn’t buy _any_ kind of package liquor anytime, anywhere on Sunday in Missouri. You couldn’t buy clothes, toys or dimestore items, either, so the “super” drug stores roped off or covered most of the store on Sundays. About the only thing that was legal to buy was drugs or food. ---
**Author:** ![Clarisse\_McClellan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Clarisse\_McClellan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clarisse_McClellan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662/147 "2014-11-28T15:41:41Z")
Among other asinine laws In Oklahoma ,for a time, women could by alcohol at 18 but men had to be 21. Cite to corroborate my memory of hanging out at a particular arcade that was next to a liquor store and guys cruising by all night long asking if any of us were 18. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662/148 "2014-11-29T00:26:34Z")
> [@Clarisse\_McClellan](#): > > Among other asinine laws In Oklahoma ,for a time, women could by alcohol at 18 but men had to be 21. Cite to corroborate my memory of hanging out at a particular arcade that was next to a liquor store and guys cruising by all night long asking if any of us were 18. Makes me think of the bar-age regulations in Thailand. At least for straight-up bars – not sure if this applies to pubs and nightclubs too, but if it does, the law is clearly not enforced, judging by all the college students you see – but in straight-up bars such as are found in the red-light areas like Nana Plaza and Patpong, you can work in one at age 18 but not patronize one unless age 21. This has led to many bizarre incidents in which an 18-, 19- or 20-year-old bargirl is barfined by a customer – the “barfine” being the small payment to the bar to compensate it for the loss of an employee for a few hours or even all night, the thinking being the fewer girls, the fewer customers – but a girl will be barfined in one establishment and taken to another bar one or two doors down. But Aha! There she is a customer and not an employee, and there’s an undercover cop there, and Pop! That bar gets hit with a 30-day closure order by the police. If she works in a bar, she can drink herself silly, but heaven forbid if she should ever set foot in a different one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-states-asinine-liquor-laws/704662.md?page=7)