What does the term ‘off sale’ mean in reference to liquor sales? So far, I’ve seen this in Minnesota and Montana.
Here in California, it means that the liquor is to be consumed off site. A 7-11 is off sale. A bar or resturant is not. That’s why they have the signs on the doors telling you not to drink the booze in their building or parking lot.
That’s right. The phrase is stolen from here in England (do you yanks never tire of stealing our culture - all we have left is the Queen and warm beer).
Signs having over pub doors read “Licenensed for the sale of alcoholic drinks on or off the premises” and an off-licence (i.e. liquor store) is licenced for the sale of alcholic sales which are consumed off the premises.
Thanks. And as to stealing British culture, I guess Americans just copied from those who drank copiously. BTW, warm beer?
Warm beer, believe it or not, can be excellent. I, a warm-blooded American, spent two months in England a few years ago. Hot, summer months, when the weather was better there than it had been for a decade. Anyway, by the end of the summer, there were certain kinds of beer that I just couldn’t drink cold anymore, no matter how hot it was outside.
And warm beer is just room temperature, not nuked or boiled. 
MR