I was recently in Indiana and I thought it was strange I could not find cold beer anywhere. I felt like I was back in college having to chill beer in the hotel wastebasket.
I was in northern suburban Indianapolis.
Yeah, it’s bizarre. If you want cold beer, you have to go to a liquor store. The grocery stores can only sell it warm.
Is there a price difference? Do liquor stores in Indiana accept out of state ID? I’m 41 and don’t look like a kid, but I’ve found some places in the Midwest to raise a stink if my ID is out of state.
I’ve never had a problem with my ID in Indiana, although it’s an Illinois license, so they’re probably used to them there.
But you won’t be able to get any more beer today…it’s Sunday. You can go drink it at a bar (which, of course, you have to drive to and back home from), but you can’t buy it and bring it back for safe consumption at your hotel room.
No cold beer in grocery stores or gas stations, ever. Liquor stores can stock cold beer, though.
But if you have a baby, you’ll have to leave her unattended in your car while you go into the store…no minors, including infants, are allowed in liquor stores in Indiana.
:rolleyes:
And, of course, today (Sunday) it’s illegal for anyone in Indiana other than a brewpub to sell any beer at all.
My license is from Arizona and I think it is the 2034 expiration which raises a red flag with many cashiers. Arizona charges a fortune for the driver’s license, but it is valid for 25 years.
What would happen if they chilled the entire store and the beer just happened to get cold? At what temperature does it become illegal?
I heard about these laws only recently, having only lived in Michigan and, well, China.
In Michigan, you can go buy cold beer and liquor at any major grocery store. Heck, they have whole sections of the grocery stores that are essentially liqour/wine/beer stores.
I had no idea that some other states aren’t like this until recently. The Dope taught me it.
In Michigan, though, you can’t buy alcohol on Sunday before Noon. I have no idea why we still have this law.
So you don’t take your six-pack to church, silly.
Yeah, Michigan is where we used to buy our beer on Sundays when I lived in Indiana. 
Another one of Indiana’s quirky liquor laws (or used to be, I left the state fifteen years ago) was that liquor stores couldn’t sell soft drinks. That’s why you always saw a bank of soft drink machines out front.
Just weird.
Heh. Welcome to the Puritan State. We also seriously restrict adult book stores. :rolleyes:
Sometimes there is a price difference (usually an extra buck for a cold case of beer). It’s also a new state law that they have to check EVERYONE’S ID, regardless of how old they look. My liquor store’s beer distributor lives in the neighborhood, and that’s where he shops. Even he has to get carded (even though he was the one that basically sold the beer to the store in the first place).
Genuine curiosity: how so? I’m in Indiana and can buy pretty much any porn legal in the US any day of the week, and don’t have mail orders blocked. Liquor, on the other hand, is indeed problematic.
Every adult bookstore is required, by law, to have a Super 8 motel within 1/4 mile of its front doors. Or so it seems. 
In Indiana, grocery stores can sell only warm beer, but they can sell cold soda.
In Indiana, liquor stores can sell cold beer, but they can only sell warm soda.
It’s true. Bizarre, but true.
Yeah, we have some pretty conservative people here. There is currently an effort to change some of the laws. They have information on how to sign the petition or whatever posted in the grocery stores. The liquor stores are another group fighting any changes. They don’t want to have to open on Sundays to compete.
30+ years of buying beer in Indiana has taught me to plan ahead!
I’ve posted about it before, but WV has some pretty strange liquor laws, too. Grocery and convenience stores can sell wine and beer (even cold) and other ‘malt liquor’ beverages, like Bartles and Jaymes, etc. They cannot sell hard liquor or distilled spirits. Certain convenience stores (like the 7-11 just up the street from me) have a liquor license, and can sell hard liquor. But on Sundays, they are subject to the same laws as liquor stores, and are not allowed to sell any alcohol, including beer and wine. Liquor stores can sell beer, wine, distilled spirits, etc. But cannot be open on Sundays. Other stores cannot sell beer or wine/malt liquor before 1PM on Sundays. Restaurants cannot serve alcohol before 1PM on Sundays.
Why not have a church service and conduct communion (with wine)?
Y’know, there seems to be plenty of drinking and church-goin’ around here. If I established a church where we conducted communion with moonshine and shots of Bud Ice, I bet I’d have something!
Seriously, I’d be almost tempted to go to the local Catholic church to check this out (I’m not a Catholic, but I played one in childhood. . . 
), but there is no Catholic church in this town. I’d have to drive a half-an hour. Now, within a fifteen-minute walk, I can find six different flavors of other Christian churches, but no Catholic or Unitarian!
Don’t know about other parts of the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere, but here in Taiwan I buy my Johnnie Walker at the 7-Eleven downstairs from my apartment. A bit different from Texas.