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Originally Posted by HVAC Instructor
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It isn't just Oklahoma, ALL states have some odd liquor laws, I think Texas has more oddball ones than Oklahoma. You have the "dry areas" situation and then in Dallas (and its burbs) you have the wet/dry areas are by voting precinct. That is why you have 8 liquor stores clustered together like you do on Greenville just south of Royal Lane. When I was working at Fort Polk, (Leesville, Louisiana) all the bars closed at Midnight on Saturday night, the convenience stores had to padlock the beer wine coolers and put brown paper up on the doors so you couldn't "see" the beer/wine. There was a 24 hour frozen drink stand that was closed from midnight to midnight on Sunday. Massachusetts still has the "package stores" laws, so no alcohol in Whole Foods stores. In fact according the linked story home brewing wasn't legal in the US until 1978, I know it wasn't legal in Texas until the early 90's and brew pubs were not legal until that time either, in fact the Bricktown Brewery was opened in OKC before it was legal to have a similar brew pub business in Texas.
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That law dates back to 1959 and was never amended when home brewing was legalized on the federal level in 1978. "I think there's a lot of people that would like to see us make everything uniform, so it doesn't matter what you're doing. They all fall under the same parameters," Morgan says. "'Well I can make wine, but I can't make beer', that really just doesn't make a lot of sense."
Oklahoma, Alabama and Mississippi are the only states that have yet to make home brewing beer legal.
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Seems like it's one of things they have just never done anything about.