Standing in Line and Limits for the Good Stuff (not ammo)

[VaTom]

The good Bourbon is scarce as ammo sometimes. In Virginia our liquor stores are state owned and run. With Covid they don't open until Noon and only allow a certain number of folks in at a time. The small batch high end bourbons are always in short supply and they have put a one bottle limit on each kind of certain brands. I really like Buffalo Trace but it is gone soon as it hits the shelf. Having some good intel from a store clerk is helpful. Said she had two cases coming on the truck last Friday as well as some Blantons. And to be there when store opens.

I had a golf game that day (retired) as weather was really nice. I asked my lovely wife of 45 years for a big favor. Go early to the ABC store and see if she could get some Buffalo Trace. She said ok. I go play golf. When I get home here is the story.

Store opens at noon so she gets there at 11:15. Number 6 in line. By noon the line is in the parking lot. Letting 5 in at a time. One leaves another goes in. She snags the Buffalo Trace then sees a few bottles of Blantons on the counter. Not knowing bourbon she had overheard folks in line talking about how good Blantons is. She asks the clerk if she could have a bottle of it in addition to the Buffalo Trace. Of course she says!

I have a great wife! Wish my golf game Friday was as great.

 

[shell627]

Yes good bourbon is hard to come by in Tn also.Large local store had a drawing for the hard to find bourbon including various Pappy and other good bourbon.I didn't win a chance to buy a pappy but I did get a bottle of Weller 12yr old.

 

[merl67]

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around "In Virginia our liquor stores are state owned" ...

 

[PPS1980]

Ah State Stores......don't miss them at all. Now a good single malt......

 

[tominboise]

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around "In Virginia our liquor stores are state owned" ...

Idaho liquor stores are all state run.

 

[Retired W4]

Yes good bourbon is hard to come by in Tn also.Large local store had a drawing for the hard to find bourbon including various Pappy and other good bourbon.I didn't win a chance to buy a pappy but I did get a bottle of Weller 12yr old.

What I want to know is why is a middle TN boy drinking that KY stuff?

 

[Muss Muggins]

At least 17 states own/run their liquor stores . . .

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around "In Virginia our liquor stores are state owned" ...

 

[VaTom]

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around "In Virginia our liquor stores are state owned" ...

Revenue and control. Goes back to prohibition days I guess. At least we have self service! Back when I turned 21 (long ago) you had to go up to the counter and ask for what you wanted from some scowling clerk. No browsing. The stores were all that institutional green paint inside and very spartan.

My dad moved to Las Vegas in 1992 when he retired. The first time I visited him and saw the liquor isle in the grocery store I was blown away. In South Carolina for many years if you went to a bar or restaurant and ordered a mixed drink they poured it from those mini-bottles like on the airplanes.

 

[shell627]

What I want to know is why is a middle TN boy drinking that KY stuff?

Well some things from Ky are pretty good. I married a Ky girl that was raised in Tn.But she was born in Germany while her father was serving. That is also my excuse for liking good beer.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Way Back in my Puppy Dog Days -
I was visiting some Folks in Danville.
I was legal, barely so They told me where to find the State Liquor Store.
It was down a side street in kind of a seedy looking neighborhood.
And it has a small not very informative sign.
So in I go.
They had a glass display case showing all products available with prices.
You picked up an order form and filled it out.
Then Take it to the counter and they checked my ID and totaled my purchase.
You pay. You get a number. You wait.
Then after a while, hallelujah! They called my number!
My Ship has Docked!

 

[merl67]

Wow another reason I'm glad to live in Tennessee...

 

[Retired W4]

Well some things from Ky are pretty good. I married a Ky girl that was raised in Tn.But she was born in Germany while her father was serving. That is also my excuse for liking good beer.

Oh KAY shell. All good reasons for sure. Growing up in Tullahoma in the early 60's got me interested in that TN moonshine. It was everywhere in those dry counties, especially around Turkey Creek, Awalt, etc. Many of those sites are under water now but back then it mattered not how old you were.

 

[Bullet Bob]

"I'm still trying to wrap my mind around "In Virginia our liquor stores are state owned" ..."

There have been efforts to do away with the system in NC as it would save money, but the local ABC board seats are plum political appointment patronage, and the state politicians don't want to give that up.

Since I don't drink, maybe I could start hoarding the good stuff and reselling for a large profit. The state ALE agents are too busy busting young powerless clerks for selling beer to someone underage than to bother with me. Or getting custom 1911's issued that they can then buy for $1.00 a year later. Good work if you can get it.

 

[Golddollar]

The liquor stores in PA are all owned by the Commonwealth. And Elliott Ness must have come back to life, because it was like Prohibition when all the liquor stores were closed last March and the on line ordering system that was later tried was a complete disaster.

 

[fiasconva]

I'm still trying to figure out how you got your wife to stand in line that long for you. You must really be doing something right. *s* I hope you found a way to reward her for that. Don't screw up. She's obviously a keeper.