A Friendly Correction for those Man-Haters who Delve to be Single

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

You can't buy beer in the same store you can liquor and wine.

Nope. Not kidding.

You can buy beer at a grocery store, but only two six packs at a time. If you want a case, or a keg, you have to go to a licensed "beer distributor." That distributor cannot, however, sell you six packs. If you want that, turn around and go back to the grocery store.

(By the way, up until a couple years ago, grocery stores were barred from selling beer altogether. You had to get six packs from pizza joints, or bars.)

So... I can buy 18% Dogfishhead Worldwide Stout at a Wegmans. But if I want 12.5% champagne, I have to go to the liquor store (where I can buy as much wine or liquor as I want in one shot, unlike the grocery store regulations on beer purchases).

But-- If you want to buy more than two sixes at a grocery store, you can simply walk out with two, and come back and buy another two as many times as you like. You could buy the entire store's stock out if you wanted. But it must be done two sixes at a time.

ETA: Distributors are not allowed to sell "mixed sixes" cases. You must buy one case of one kind of beer. They can lose their license if caught deviating from this rule. Grocery stores and bars, however, are allowed to sell you mixed six packs including as many different beers as you like.

ETA2: High end grocers have restaurants in them now, where one may drink liquor, wine, or beer. That restaurant, inside the grocery store that sells six packs of beer, can sell you growlers of keg beer. But it cannot sell sixes. Those must be purchased outside the door of the restaurant, within the store itself, where growlers cannot be purchased.

Government by the senile and corrupt, for the dim and inbred.

The 21st amendment has brought us a joyous libertarian utopia! What a wondrous laboratory of democracy Pennsylvania is! Finally, an alcohol distribution policy that reflects local preferences instead of being dictated by jackbooted thugs from Washington!

Few industries are as subject to capture as the almost Federal-free regulation of alcohol distribution. There is a lesson there.