Indiana - Liquor stores can't sell cold pop, grocery stores can't sell cold beer, which is why every liquor store has a pop machine outside. No alcohol sales on Sundays either except for microbreweries, but that's more of a small business protection law than a blue law at this point. (it's much more expensive to operate 7 days a week than 6 days a week as a small business) Nice little boon for microbreweries on football Sundays.
Liquor laws are -- weird. I'm guessing that this is in part a Blue Law and in part an effort to divide a market. Could anyone really confuse cold beer with cold pop? Where this could get tricky is where such a law might prevent the sale of 'spiked' colas anywhere or a pre-made 'Seven and Seven'.
...Can anyone tell me whether beer is available at Sunday games of the Indianapolis Colts?
...The next time that I go to Indiana I will determine whether Dollar General, Wal*Mart, and Meijer sell both cold beer and cold sodas inside the same store. Maybe those do not count as grovery stores.
