Alcoholist » Ohio http://alcoholi.st Yet another cocktail blog. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:30:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Buying Booze on Sunday in Ohio http://alcoholi.st/2009/07/buying-booze-on-sunday-in-ohio/ http://alcoholi.st/2009/07/buying-booze-on-sunday-in-ohio/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:02:21 +0000 gr http://alcoholi.st/2009/07/buying-booze-on-sunday-in-ohio/ Ohio, as do many states, has some holdover Blue Laws. It used to have a state monopoly on liqour and wine sales, as Pennsylvania still does, and certainly had the “not on Sundays” provision (still seen in New York’s service industry as “no hard alcohol before noon”, and various other states’ “before noon” policies). In Ohio, Sunday sales evolved somewhat (completely?) uniquely: there’s an ABV limit of 21%.

For most practical purposes, this means you can buy beer, but neither wine nor spirits, but several enterprising spirits vendors are chasing this market with diluted spirits. Here are several on a grocery store shelf. (There are also whiskeys and gins.)

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