Drive up to Frisky Whisky in West Point and save 30%. Buy all you want and don't worry about the silly ABC.

Drive up to Frisky Whisky in West Point and save 30%. Buy all you want and don't worry about the silly ABC.

People that run "shot houses", i.e. illegal bars, don't worry about the limit, if their is one, and many of the legal bars in Alabama buy their beer from Walmart and don't worry about a limit. Let me see if I can explain why. Their sales tax these bars owe to the state is determined by how much the distributor delivers to them. The distributor reports to the state that they deliver 50 cases to Joe's bar. Joe then has to pay the sales tax on 50 cases and doesn't have to worry about keeping up with how many individual beers he sells. Yet if Joe goes and buys it from Walmart he'll have a tax ID# which allows him to buy it tax free and this is not reported to the state, so Joe doesn't have to pay sales tax on this beer. I used to often see the small bar owners with two buggies loaded up with beer. The ABC guys knew they were doing this and no one seemed interested in stopping it. I kind of thought it was their job, but they worked for the state, so who knew?

They have to buy their liquor from the state so they get them then.

Buy liquor from Alabama, Not really. Many large bars buy their liquor in Fld. and Georgia and re fill empty Alabama bottles. Cut there sales tax and other liquor taxes are less too. this is fact.

That makes no sense. They have a Tax ID that slows them to buy wholesale without paying taxes.

I’m not aware of any such law or it ever being enforced if there is such.

The answer to your original question may be as simple as product selection. I like a certain type of beer. Most stores don’t carry it, so I have to go to the one store in town that does.

Humans are creatures of habit. If you work out of the same location everyday do you get gas or coffee from a certain store? If so do they let you get by with something others don't?

Only limit I know is what you can have in a dry county. 1 case and 1 fifth per vehicle. Or 1 gal I believe. I know for a fact a party ball will get thrown in jail in a dry county. Also who ever owns the business may limit you also because they can be held liable.

Don't know if this helps, but...



Section 28-4-200
Possession of certain quantities of state tax-paid alcoholic beverages for private use permitted; storage, possession, etc., of alcoholic beverages in passenger area of vehicles or in view of passengers.
Any person 19 years of age or over shall be entitled to have in his possession in his motor vehicle or a private residence or place of private residence or the curtilage thereof in any dry county in this state for his own private use and not for resale not more than the following quantity of alcoholic beverages, as enumerated and defined in Section 28-3-1, when such beverages have been sold or distributed by and through a state liquor store operated by the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board or a licensee of such board, and the containers of such beverages have affixed thereto such mark or identification and sufficient revenue stamps as to show that such alcoholic beverages were sold or distributed by a state liquor store or a licensee of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and that the required tax has been paid: three quarts of liquor and one case of malt or brewed beverages or three quarts of wine and one case of malt or brewed beverages; provided, however, that no alcoholic beverages shall be kept, stored or possessed in the passenger area of any vehicle or in the view of any passenger.