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Anybody Ever Buy Whiskey Online?

Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,253 ***** Forums Admin
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If so, how did that work out? How stiff is shipping? One place I just looked at is $24.00 shipping for shipments of less than 12 bottles. I had three bottles selected, so that bumps the price per bottle quite a bit. I suppose I could buy more bottles, but I's just a po boy.
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2020
    I've never done it. The laws for shipping liquor are actually more restrictive than those for shipping firearms. Many states don't allow any liquor shipments at all, and those that do have endless restrictions. Shipping liquor also requires a special license which must be on file with common carriers (you can't mail booze), so the cost for that license is passed along to the end consumer. Factoring in all of the added costs, I've never found any bargains online
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    I purchased two bottles of Laphroraig Lore (one for a friends 70th bd and one for me) @ $100 each (after tasting some when friend brought a bottle back from Scotland).  Shipping was free. (I see the price is now $119)
    I used Wine Chateau for the order. 
    https://winechateau.com/collections/scotch?page=1&rb_vendor=Laphroaig

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  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,646 ✭✭✭✭
    "The laws for shipping liquor are actually more restrictive than those for shipping firearms." Right Mark, I wanted to buy some bottled beer made in Austria a few years ago.  I wanted to leave a bottle on my grandfather's grave (that I was going to visit in a couple of months) who was from Vienna.   I tried for a month for an on-line purchase and couldn't do it.  Finally, a pal of mine in Indy that owns a liquor store was able to order me a case of Stiegl.  I understand having a signature required shipment but I just couldn't do it - at least in Indiana.
    It's too late for me, save yourself.
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    cbxjeff said:
    "The laws for shipping liquor are actually more restrictive than those for shipping firearms." Right Mark, I wanted to buy some bottled beer made in Austria a few years ago.  I wanted to leave a bottle on my grandfather's grave (that I was going to visit in a couple of months) who was from Vienna.   I tried for a month for an on-line purchase and couldn't do it.  Finally, a pal of mine in Indy that owns a liquor store was able to order me a case of Stiegl.  I understand having a signature required shipment but I just couldn't do it - at least in Indiana.
    I was in a similar situation 15 or so years ago.  I'd seen a Welsh Single Malt (Penderyn) advertised on the back of the program for the Welsh tenors. Not available in the US at the time.  As luck would have it, I had a friend working in London and he'd seen it in the local liquor store.  The trouble was mailing it to the us.  I contacted the BATFE and they had no problem with my 'importing' a single bottle without the tax stamp.  The rub was that the USPO wouldn't touch the shipment without the tax stamp.  Luckily after two years it's available in the US.  Not bad if I do say so myself, but I prefer Glenkinchie 10yo (which is no longer made)
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  • gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
    S&H is nearly as much as the product !
    It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,510 ✭✭✭✭
    You may have to pay your state's tax stamp price, also. Utah doesn't allow import of alcohol at all (but the liquor stores just across all four state lines do a bangup business to cars with Utah plates!) If you buy at one of the state liquor stores, there's a 43% "sin tax" between wholesale and retail. Booze is pricey here.
    Living behind the Zion Curtain is one of the few bad things about Utah. Fortunately, they finally dumped the stupid 3.2 beer law and changing demographics are slowly but surely making it legal to be an adult.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,510 ✭✭✭✭
    They did away with minis, and with 3.2 beer. But came back with metered 1 oz drinks, and no more than one ounce per drink. A "martini" was little more than a wet ice cube. Now still in effect is the curtain or wall between customers and the mixing area. They claim that children seeing drinks mixed or poured was an encouragement - but watching them being consumed is fine.
    Yeah, it's a little bit nutso here.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,044 ✭✭✭✭
    Flying Clay Disk said:

    And then there was the whole 3.2% beer thing.  LOL.  You'd pee yourself to death before you ever got drunk on that stuff.  
    3.2 beer is figured by weight and 6% is measured by volume. If you measure the content the same for both, it would be 3.2 and 4.7. It is mostly in your head. Don
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