No alcohol if you are under 18. And no alcohol while you are on the street.

And the law is universal across the country. The only way to experience a different law is getting out of the country.

I should have clarified, I meant on times. What time can you sell hard liquor until vs beer?

Age in America is 21.

There is no law here. It’s entirely on the individual store. It’s possible find a liquor store where they sell 24/24, and it’s also possible to find another store that closes early, in the same city.

One thing you need to know about my country is that drinking is a culture in itself. People drink as a way to connect socially, and drinking can be a symbol of people having a good time. It is depicted in media, and it can be seen in real life. And besides, we kind of realized that liquor stores attract tourists, so we have to capitalize on it for tourism sake.

So you only have liquor stores? Can gas stations have beer caves?

It is a culture in my state too. Not always a good one

No. We don’t sell anything in gas stations. Not that anyone here wants to buy anything in gas stations other than gas anyway.

@Mimi

That is funny. One of our gas station chains have hand breaded fried chicken, hot food (made “fresh” from frozen food), beer caves, and all sorts of other stuff. Almost everything sold, bread, butter, ice cream, pizza, candy, coffee, is that gas stations own brand.

@SergeantQueen it’s the cultural difference then. I’ve been to Thailand and they have a mart in every gas stations. People in my country don’t think of gas station as something other than a place to buy gas and the occasional public toilet :)

Makes sense.

@mods don’t delete this, move to social if you must.

Weird how Wisconsin is known for alcohol but also has weird liquor laws.

I don’t drink, so not sure of all the rules. I do know state line is less than a mile away and laws on sales differ there.

I am not aware of any time-gating laws in regards to alcohol.
0–14: Not allowed to drink alcohol
14–15: allowed to drink beer or wine if the parents allow it.
16+: allowed to buy beer/wine
18+: allowed to buy hard liquors.

- A restaurant offering alcoholic drinks must offer non-alcoholic drinks.
– the cheapest drink on offer must be non-alcoholic
– no sale of alcoholic drinks to someone intoxicated
– no hard liquors can be sold in vending machines.
– no alcoholic drinks can be sold in vending machines in public spaces

Liquor sold only at county owned stores Monday through Saturday 9 AM to 9 PM. No wine or beer sold at county stores. No one 19 or 20 allowed in county stores. Prices are set for entire state (same price in all counties).

Beer and wine sold at retail stores only (includes gas stations and supermarkets). Must be under 20 % alcohol for wine and 12 % alcohol for beer. No wine or beer sold between 12 AM Sunday to 12 PM. There are “drive thru” stores to buy wine, beer, snacks and other groceries too.

Must be 21 years old to buy any alcohol.

Clubs and venues can have a “brown bag” permit (separate from regular permit) to allow people to bring their own alcohol.

85 miles to another state.

Georgia has some wacky ones – I will only mention two of them.

1) a store that sells liquor cannot be called a liquor store. It must be, by law, a package store or a Spirits store.

2) Booze (wine, liquor, beer)
– Monday thru Saturday – can’t be sold before 8am or after 11:45pm
– Sunday – cannot be sold before 12:30pm (presumably so you go to church before imbibing)

Missouri is 3td in the nation in regards to loose liquor laws. We rejected prohibition three times and Carrie Nation was escorted out of the state.
So just don’t drink and drive and you’re good. Even as a kid they just make you pour it out.

Federal law is followed here…..no drinking before 21. But if you have even smelled alcohol, don’t drive.

I live on the SC/NC border. I used to live on the SC side. Now I live on the NC side. I don’t drink so I don’t know what they are called in NC. Much like the state of GA, SC doesn’t allow liquor to be sold out of a liquor store. It’s called a package store. In the side of the package store is a well lit sign with the letters ABC. I’m assuming that the ABC stands for Alcohol Beverage Control but I could be wrong. In SC the ABC store closed at 7:00 pm Mon-Sat and were not allowed to open on Sunday

Grocery stores were allowed to sell wine and beer until 9:00 pm Mon-Sat and not allowed to sell them on Sunday. As a loophole, gas stations and any retail store that had a grocery section no matter how small could apply for a liquor license in order to sell wine and beer. To make matters even more confusing, restaurants were allowed to sell liquor on Sundays when the convenience store next door was not. I think that the restaurants have special hours on Sundays within which they are allowed to serve alcoholic drinks

To make it even more convoluted, there was one small town that was located in 2 counties. One county was allowed to sell beer/wine until 9:00 pm where the other county’s cut off was 7:00 pm. I’ve been in a convenience store where the person in front of me was buying a six pack and told that they were 1 minute too late. They pay for the rest of what they had, got in their car, and drove across the road into the other county to buy their six pack. One county didn’t allow restaurants to serve liquor on Sundays where the other one did. Maybe this is what is going on in the city/town you referenced with the difference in hours

We haven’t lived in NC long enough for me to make enough friends to hear them complaining about the laws concerning alcohol

All alcohol sales of any kind stop at 1:00am