I had a bottle of open Kaluha taken from me in Puerto Rico yeserday.

Why?

This does not make sense.

The only alcoholic beverages allowed are those provided by the airline. Every $4. drink counts.

Clarification: No BYOB.

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You are absolutely correct that the ban on higher proof alcohol is a safety issue. These bans hold for both carry on and checked luggage. You wouldn't want the pax next to you carrying a bottle of gasoline on the plane, would you?

This statement of course is wrong. People bring boxes of it back from various countries all the time.

As to the rule about unopened. Yes, I have run into that quite often. You can have a full SEALED bottle(s), but do not dare bring one that has been opened. Stupid logic. Just plain stupid.

Last year, I sat next to a guy (flying with his wife and 2 kids) who had a water bottle filled with vodka.

And he and his wife finished the whole bottle in a 2 1/2 hr. flight ! (FLL-JFK)


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i've been served 2 liters from duty free on board. can i take a sip?

Every state in the midwest has one or more goofy liquor laws, most of which have a religious history to them.

Kansas: 3.2 beer in grocery stores, 5.0 beer in liquor stores. No booze sales on Sunday from liquor/grocery stores, but bars are open.

Oklahoma: Grocery stores sell only 3.2 beer (no stronger beer, wine, or liquor), but they can sell it cold. Liquor stores sell everything else, including stronger beer, but it must be warm. EVEN WIERDER: if a brand of beer is sold at a grocery store (3.2), you cannot buy a 5.0 version of that brand in a liquor store. (In other words, 5.0 Budweiser is not available in Oklahoma.)

Missouri: No liquor sales of any kind before 12 noon on Sunday. (Used to be dry all day, but when the Chiefs became popular in about 1990, the legislature fixed that rule pretty quickly.) Good place to find a crowd of Johnson Countians (Kansans): a State Line liquor store at noon on Sunday during football season.

Illinois: very funky rules about purchasing kegs (I think it's a mix of state and local laws). You have to fill out a form telling The Man where and when the party will be, how many people will be there, etc. Basically, what time would you like your party to get busted? I'm sure the intentions are all good (discourage underage drinking, drinking/driving, etc.) but it comes off as very KGB-ish to me. In practice, I've been to a few keggers in Illinois and The Man rarely shows up. Perhaps it's all intimidation. (Note that the rules don't apply if you walk into a liquor store and buy 15 cases of crappy beer. Only kegs.)

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In Indiana you can only buy 3 cases of beer at a time. You can walk out of the store and go back in and buy another 3 cases all day long. No alcohol sales on Sundays, but you can get drinks at bars and restraunts (I can't spell that word). I once had an argument with a checkout person concerning if an 18 bottle case was subject to the 3 case rule. That size was new to my area at the time. She said it was and after asking about a 12 pack, 6 pack, etc. I just walked out seeing I already felt stupid enough.

I also used to save my empty bottles from my flights and refill them and take them on the planes to drink. That was quite a few years ago and probably impossible to do any more.

In Tennessee, you can't buy a corkscrew at a liquor/wine store. Of course, you can buy screw top wine.

My carryon a few days ago was 3 magnums of champagne. Security at CDG1 and PHL didn't say a thing.

I lived in Fort Wayne, then Chicago, then in South Bend from 1988-93. I remember that a bar/restaurant needed to have a percentage or $ volume of food sales to qualify as a bona-fide restaurant in order to get a Sunday liquor license. Sunday curfew was midnight or 12:30 vs. 3AM 6 nights a week. I remember a neighborhood dive on East State St. with a red neon sign, "OPEN AT 7 AM," which was earliest legal opening time.
But the most surprising Hoosier law was that a DRIVER was allowed to drink a beer or cocktail behind the wheel of a car!
Finally, a statewide Open Container Law was passed to start Jan. 1, 1994.

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The "rules" are all over the place, which makes it pretty hard to comply. In late September I had a very small (about 6 oz.), sealed bottle of wine confiscated. Two weeks later we got on a flight to Scotland out of EWR with 2 sealed bottles of duty-free scotch and brandy. No problem. Ditto for the return flight and for flights in and out of Paris in December. Last week I flew in and out of Kansas City with another small, sealed bottle of wine in my carry-on. Never bothered anyone.

But thanks for the warning about SLC. I won't be flying through there with any single-malt scotch in the near future.

you can't beat Connecticut.

liquor sales/beer sales/wine sales 8am-8pm Monday-Saturday *only*.

want it later or on sunday? gotta leave the state. or go to a bar and drink it there...