OK, I guess I meant, "do you have to
go to a separate store to buy beer & wine?"

As opposed to like here in California,
where you can buy any alcoholic beverage
in the grocery store, along with your bread & butter,
meat and potatos, etc.

I remember visiting British Columbia (Canada) once,
and you had to buy your beer a a separate store,
and it turned out they weren't open on Sundays.

I thought it was a "state run" store,
because it had all the ambiance of
your basic government owned establishment.




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> wrote:
>
> > Is PA one of those states where you have to
> > go to a separate "state run" store to buy beer & wine
> > and anything alcoholic?
>
> No for beer, (and businesses with names like "W.R. Hickey Beer
> Distributor Inc." and "Pletcher's Beer Distributor" is kinda a
> give-away) but yes for wine and liquor http://www.lcb.state.pa.us/ .
>
> Basically, beer is sold retail only by the case (no less) by "beer
> distributors", lesser quantities by bars and other shops ("6 pack shops"
> that usually sell prepared food, as well), usually at much higher prices
> (do they still limit the amount that can be sold at one time to one
> person to 2 six-packs?). It's pretty much a system unique to PA (and,
> I've always felt was one of the reasons that more of PA's small
> breweries survived than most every other states, in the pre-microbrewery
> era).
>
> I can't think of ANY state that only allows *beer* sales from "state
> stores". (Even Ontario's "Beer Stores" are a privately-owned, tho' a
> state-sanctioned monopoly, right?).