Beer legal advise question

asop

I buy a local GREAT brewed beer. Today when I paid the girl she asked if this was going to leave the state :?: I asked why in the world would you ask a question like that and she told me it was a law that it couldn't go out of state Told her I've been purchasing this product for many, many years and have never been asked that before. She said it was a law but couldn't tell me if it was a county, state or a federal law :roll: Can one explain this :?

mark christian

Alcohol laws are more complicated and convoluted than firearms laws and almost every state has dedicated state police who enforce those laws. My guess is that the local brewery wants to limit their product to a single region where they can maintain control of distribution. The most famous example of this was Coors Beer, which was the plotline for Smoky And The Bandit. If the local brewery had such a rule and the gal knowingly sold you beer which would be taken out of state then the brewery could shut off their tap...literary.

Hessian

No telling, they pass a lot senseless laws. Used to be Coors was restricted to the western states, people actually smuggled it to the east coast.

The town I used to live in was established as a Chicken Ranch collective. They outlawed Chickens. But Peacocks were allowed and actually had the right of way when in a street.

Warbirds

If it saves one child...

hillbille

I think it has something to do with state law and paying state/federal if it is sold outside state lines it is brewed in. Someone has started making Metz beer again in Omaha, but it isn't sold outside the state, even though you can get it all over any gas station, ect in Nebraska, don't know if it is illegal to trasport out of state but I know it isn't sold outside the state, may be the same with the beer you are talking about......

Ricci Wright

What if you drink it and then leave the state with it in your belly?? Have you gotta pee before you cross that state line?? The FBI will be on you??

Junkballer

Once the item was paid for it was none of her business as a clerk where it was headed .........

buschmaster

yeah, I can explain it.

she's lying. probably one of those feminazis too.

cbxjeff

As for Coors (many years ago) guilty as charged your honor.

discusdad

me too, i was a Coors Smuggler..bought in Oklahoma, broughgt to Illinois. 1977

select-fire

Maybe she needed a ride

wpageabc

Around here its about taxes. Tobacco and alcohol are taxed heavily in NJ. In nearby Delaware not so much. So if you are running alcohol and tobacco there are laws against that. Not certain if there is much enforcement.

But like many things in the Northeast and others. Its about taxes.

mjrfd99

wpageabc wrote:

Around here its about taxes. Tobacco and alcohol are taxed heavily in NJ. In nearby Delaware not so much. So if you are running alcohol and tobacco there are laws against that. Not certain if there is much enforcement.

But like many things in the Northeast and others. Its about taxes.

Uncle Tony had a nice retirement job running Delaware cigarettes to NJ for years before he passed.
When we go to the Eastern shore we save by buying in Delaware [no sales tax too] on the way back.
We buy as little as possible in rat ruined NJ.

Starve the d-rats any way possible.

bullshot

I can see not being able to ship out of state but it would hard to believe that once purchased any entity could control where you take it.

dfletcher

It's been a while, but living on the MA & NH border I think we were supposed to pay tax on whatever we bought at the NH state run "packy" & brought in to MA.

bambihunter

discusdad wrote:

me too, i was a Coors Smuggler..bought in Oklahoma, broughgt to Illinois. 1977

Until I saw the date at the end, I was going to say then you were smuggling water. LOL. Up until very recently we had some idiotic alcohol laws. You could buy high point import, but not domestic. Certain things could not be sold cold, bars could only serve 3.2 beer, etc etc etc. Now, as of Jan 1 this year, all stores can sell what they want with appropriate licenses. I think it will make the state a lot of money that used to be given to bordering states. When I went to TX for work, or KS/MO to visit family, I always came home with my preferred 6 point Bud Select and often requests of friends. Returning home on some trips I really was loaded down like a whiskey runner.

cbxjeff

Right about odd laws bambihunter. When I was stationed at Ft. Monroe, N.J. back in '64, bars could sell carry-out beer but it had to be in cardboard quart containers (like some ice cream containers).