Off Topic: Wet, Conservative, Dry Counties in the U.S.

[Topcat]

What type of county are you living in?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Alcohol_control_in_the_United_States.svg

Map showing   dry (red),  wet (blue), and   mixed (yellow) counties in the United States as of July 2018

TX. & PA. are pretty conservative I see.

Both states I have visited and found it to be a PITA to find a store that sells Beer.
i.e: Carlisle, Dallas.


In 2012, training in Dallas, I stayed there for 2 weeks.
I had to take a Taxi 10 miles to buy Beer.     

Carlisle, Dave and I had to race into town to get Beer for Pizza night before 6 pm closing. 


CA, is about to allow bars in major cities stay open till 4 am.

https://sf.eater.com/2018/6/1/17418156/new-last-call-4-a-m-bill-scott-wiener-bar-alcohol

These Yellow and Red counties, do they tend to see Moonshine a lot more common?
I would think so.

[JH27N0B]

Cook county IL shown as yellow?  Where did they get their data?  About the only good thing here is you can buy booze almost any time of the day or night at any store or bar with a liquor license.  And the taxes aren't much higher than sales taxes on most other items, which is very high I'd admit.
Bars are often open until 2 AM but many have 4 AM licenses.  The only places that can't sell booze are strip clubs, but you can BYOB (I've heard  ).
So if you are coming here for MCACN next month, no worries, you can drink yourself silly.  They even sell beer at the convention center.
Should be blue on the map, not yellow.

[71-440]

Interesting. Where I live the laws have changed since I moved here 21 years ago. Originally you couldn't buy alcohol on Sunday. Even restaurants couldn't serve it.
Now you can purchase it after 12:00 pm. on Sunday. Also several years ago they passed a law that topless clubs can't serve alcohol so they pretty much all closed up.

[Topcat]

Restrictions even on voting day in some states:   

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-day-alcohol-laws_n_2082327

[MEK-Dangerous]

I know Pa. is a little weird with you having to buy beer at a distributor. Then any wine or hard liquor you have to buy from a State store.

In Maryland here, it shows as a "wet" State, but not as wet as some others. You can't buy beer in a grocery store, like other States. There are liquor stores that sell everything a plenty here, but they have limited hours too.

[Topcat]

I know Pa. is a little weird with you having to buy beer at a distributor. Then any wine or hard liquor you have to buy from a State store.

In Maryland here, it shows as a "wet" State, but not as wet as some others. You can't buy beer in a grocery store, like other States. There are liquor stores that sell everything a plenty here, but they have limited hours too.

Geez...your Liquor/Alcohol rules are like our Marijuana rules to sell.

Only can buy here and there certain locations.   

[jimynick]

You boys want to hear about assine liquor laws then come to Canada. In my dad's and my early drinking days you couldn't have more than one bottle of glass of beer on the table for each drinker and the hotels were set up with men's rooms and ladies and escorts rooms. You went to a provincially run store between 10am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, where you saw no booze and went to a list where you wrote out the brand and bottle code on a wee piece of paper (64B was a favourite) that you handed to the white shirt and tie men behind a counter, who then went back into covered aisles where they reached into a space and lifted out your bottle to put it immediately into a brown paper bag, which they then took to a cashier station where you paid for it and were allowed to touch it. This is no bull story as this process continued on until into the 80's in some places in Ontario. Enjoy your freedom, lads, enjoy.