Liquor stores are considered essential in Michigan, so there’s no restriction on buying booze here right now. That being said, we have no desire to go out into this death trap of a world right now, so we’ve done a little stocking up.
We have simple, some might say elementary, tastes when it comes to alcohol, so no judgements please. We’ve got on hand:
4 boxes of Franzia (two white, two red)
3 30-packs of beer (two High Lifes, one PBR, just finished our case of Labatt Blue)
Half a fifth of rum
A bottle of champagne left over from the holiday season
Michigan. I’m not afraid of going out, because I’m sensible, but my wife is full face mask and safety glasses, so I’m currently dry. I’ve been dry for about 10 days. In fact, it’s the longest I’ve ever gone without a drink in my adult life. I’m kind of wondering if I should cancel my Kroger pickup order (at my boycotted Kroger) for Saturday, which includes 3.5 liters of Bombay, 20 liters of diet tonic, and two boxes of Black Box pinot noir.
Note: I don’t plan to drink it that quickly, it’s just that I detest that Kroger, but Meijer switched to a third party who won’t bring alcohol to Curbside or Home delivery. That supply should last a while while I happily continue to pickup from Meijer.
We’re keeping booze stores open here (Ontario) but I still stocked up some. 4×24 tallboys and something over 2 cases of wine. If I need more, should be stress free as I’m not currently embroiled in any fueds with nearby grocery stores.
Liquor/beer/wine stores are still open 'round here. And I live 3 blocks from the drive-thru liquor store so I don’t even have to get out of the car (even though I usually prefer to go inside the store and pick out my own stuff).
Was telling my wife before all this started, “As long as the liquor store, the dispensary, and 7-11 stay open, I’m good.”
PA liquor stores are closed, but we have a decent wine cellar, a couple cases of various beers, and a huge liquor cabinet. I finished off the last bottle of Tito’s in the house though. Most of the liquor we have isn’t stuff I normally drink. There’s one of those eighteen foot tall bottles of Galliano, for instance. I assume we’ll eventually be chugging that.
We haven’t stocked up at all, but that includes 2+ cases of wine, 2 6-packs of beer, and the usual liquor cabinet supplies (whisky, scotch, vodka, gin). Wine is really the only thing we might need and we’re placing our next wine club order this week so we’re good.
The only thing I pick up regularly during a grocery run are handles of Wild Turkey, Tito’s and Bacardi and liters of Mount Gay. I’ve got enough rye around the house to last until the Apocalypse, (or next Thursday, whichever happens first) and a quite adequate supply of tequila, Irish, Scotch and stuff. The Mexican supermarket down the street usually has enormous limes and lots of Mexican Coke, so we’ll sail into the End Times with Cuba Libres and Daiquiris galore!
If you ever catch me mixing Pyrat with Coke, you’ll know the End is Near.
I stocked up on scotch and bourbon (and have some rum, tequila, vodka, and liquors as well), but only have 10 cans of beer left. But Panama has banned the sale of alcohol until further notice, so I may have to start rationing the beer.
I have about 60 bottles of liquor, most of it made in Washington. I have only 3 or 4 drinks a week so what I have will last a while. A friend that owns a small distillery near me said business has been pretty good recently. He is running low on his aged spirits and he is 6 months from his next bottling of his bourbon and rye.
I mostly drink wine but would hate to run out of rum or vodka, so I stocked up and have on hand:
2 large (1.75 liter) bottles of Bacardi Gold, neither of which has been opened
1 regular (750 ml) bottle of Absolut vodka, and one large (1.14 L) unopened one
about a third of a bottle of gin
I don’t know what to think about the wine supply. I’m a collector but most of the stuff I keep down in the cellar is either costly or otherwise rare and exceptional, so I’d hate to start digging into that supply for everyday use. I think I have just around 8 bottles upstairs that I would consider ordinary and suitable for everyday drinking. Only two cans of beer as I don’t drink the stuff myself.
Hmmm… I would appear to need to brave a trip to the liquor store for at least a little more beer and a few more bottles of wine. Which means a temptation to pop into the nearby grocery store.
ETA: Came back from shopping realizing I had composed this message but forgot to post it. My report: liquor store is understaffed as has been the norm during this crisis, though with one cashier plus one stocking person plus the usual security guard controlling access. This time, before you are allowed in (with in-store customers kept to an absolute minimum) you are subject to a barrage of questions reminiscent of a border crossing: have you been out of the country in the past two weeks? Have you been in contact with anyone who has? Do you have a fever or any other symptoms? There were two young ladies in front of me trying to get in as a pair, and they must have given the wrong answers because they were adamantly refused entry. Meanwhile it appears cashiers are under instructions to back far away from customers loading their purchases on the counter, and the POS terminal is stretched to the very end of the conveyor belt, as far from the cashier as the wire will reach. When they ring up the purchases they actually tell you to step back. I was happy that my minimal purchases today totalled less than $100, because I could tap the POS terminal with the contactless chip card and not have to touch that damn filthy keypad.
I did go to the grocery store as well, and it appeared much more normal and laid-back than the government-run liquor store. They even had TP in stock. However, signs advising of limits of either 1 or 2 to a customer are popping up all over the store. TP was limited to Charmin and a store brand, and just 1 12-pack of double rolls to a customer.
I have a lot of wine, and a liquor cabinet full of bottles (some inherited from my grandparents and father) and at my normal rate of consumption that will last me a couple of years.
