Dry Counties
 

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Cold Beer Prohibition Ends In Oxford .

re: dry counties
 

I can hardly believe it MaryPoppins! I suppose "spinning" will become a "lost art form" :D

I'm afraid so OOM, and who ever heard of IPA in the old days? Hops? I hate hops, bitter things.

Hops are very popular things out here, but Portland is a leading spot for microbreweries and craft brewing. I went to a wedding this weekend where both the bride and groom home brew. The men had hops as part of the boutineers and the bouquets. They are actually a lovely way to include green.

I have to admit the thought makes me a little giddy... I have somehow reverted back to my beer drinking days :-) and love a good COLD hop! My poor DH was very confused the first time I brought him to Oxford for a game and was most impressed with my spinning skills... refrained from taking him to do Pete's challenge... which I suppose will now be a thing of the past as well... big sigh...

I have the feeling I may have missed something good. :p

For what it is wroth, I find it funny that non Southerners find it funny that we have "dry counties" back home.

Fun fact. Years back, Kentucky's Christian County voted to "go wet" the same day that Bourbon County voted to "stay dry". Both counties are now "wet".

Many of my favorite brotherhood bonding memories were "running to the line". People who live in dry counties will know what I mean.

T Steven, I went back and fixed #2.

LaneSig, being from M'sippi, know Zactly what you mean.

When I was at Auburn, Columbus GA was nearby and the legal drinking age was 18 there. Auburn might as well have had train service to the state line because so many runs were made.

Is Starkville still dry?

This does happen in the North, too. Gasp! My county was dry on Sunday, except for some weird loophole in this old law that resulted in "fermented" beverages being banned, but "distilled" beverages were OK. Until the voters repealed this law about 5 years ago, you could buy hard liquor and get a mixed drink on Sunday, but you couldn't purchase beer or wine.

Some towns in the county are still dry...all the time. This keeps popping up on the local ballots; it's always fun to see how the votes go on the TV reports. These always get special mention.

No, got beer around 1981, but couldn't buy it cold. (I believe you can now.)

Yes, I remember the crossroads fondly :D

I know folks who were canoeing on a riverand got pulled over by law enforcement for having beer in a dry county in thei ice chests!

I NEVER had to think about dry counties until I lived in Madison County Kentucky for my internship in summer 2011. We were the southernmost wet county until Tennessee. It was interesting. Sundays were also interesting. I don't know what spinning is, anyone got a you tube video visual?

Raises hand. Good ol' Smith Co, Texas. Not sure if it is still dry or not, but wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it still is.

The big issue in my area now is trying to get wine sales in grocery stores. You have to sneer when the Southern Baptists and Liquor Store owners are in bed together in opposition of this measure.

At my daughter's H.S. graduation party, several Ole Miss grads spent a long time teaching our family, (new to Ole Miss) the art of spinning a beer to get it cold. They said it was an important life lesson for visiting Oxford. We spent all summer practicing.

:D That happened here a couple of years ago.

Now the issue is, you can buy alcohol on Sundays from some stores, but there are all kinds of time limits on when you can purchase what. Bourbon & spirits cant be sold until a certain time, but beer purchases can be sold any time, etc. It makes no sense at all whatsoever. :rolleyes:

We couldn't have draft beer in Alabama unless the county population was over a certain percentage of German heritage. Three counties qualified but two of them were dry. The one that could have it was Mobile county on the coast. So we used to hit the MS state line for it. They always managed to have kegs at frat parties.

Dry counties are a foreign concept up here in CT, but dry towns are not. The town next to mine was "damp" until a couple of years ago (restaurants could get liquor licenses, but supermarkets could not sell alcohol, and no liquor stores were allowed) - then they went "wet" and a wine store immediately popped up.

I grew up in NY where supermarkets can sell beer only. I went to school in MA where alcohol is only sold in package stores. Then I moved to CT, where, again, supermarkets can sell beer only - only package stores can sell wine and hard liquor.

I was quite surprised when I went into a supermarket in VA and saw wine for sale, and I was again surprised when I went into a CVS in IL and saw a full selection of booze, including hard liquor.

BTW, CT was the last state in the US to legalize liquor sales on Sundays. Damn Puritans :p

Yep. Slippery Rock was officially "dry" when it got named one of the Playboy top party schools. Of course, PA as a whole is slightly backwards when it comes to alcohol.

That one doesn't have much of a filter on him, does he?

Nope. You can tell he is a NOLA boy, right?

I had no idea there were such things in our state!

You've just got to drive a few miles, AGDee!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...States.svg.png

Blue = Wet
Yellow = Mixed
Red = Dry

What's up with that one county in South Dakota? There's got to be a story there. I also have no idea why LA and WV are gray.

It's probably the Footloose county. (I say that semi-seriously.)

LA and WV are gray because primary colors are too bright when you're butt ass hung over. :p

I don't understand what mixed means. My county is mixed, but I can buy what I want at the same time in my town as I can in Davidson County/Nashville, which is wet.

I'm wondering if "mixed" means there may be a dry town or township in that county?

Here's where I got it from. Check out Kentucky: it has counties that are "moist." I really have no idea what that means!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._by_U.S._state

"Moist" means that the county is dry but a city within the county is not.

Historically, county folk tended to vote “dry” while city folk tended to vote "wet". The county almost always had more voters so many small towns and counties remained dry. There is a fairly new law (within the last year or so) that allows Kentucky’s “cities” to vote on off-sale within the city limits - and only residents of the city may vote on the wet/dry referendum.

That makes sense on the mixed.