Liquor Barn - ID required for everyone in party

We stopped at an Indiana liquor store last week to buy a bag of ice from the outdoor bin--no beer, no liquor of any kind. My husband, white hair and all and on the farrrrr side of 21 was asked for ID. All he could do was stand there and laugh. It made absolutely NO sense at all.

We stopped at an Indiana liquor store last week to buy a bag of ice from the outdoor bin--no beer, no liquor of any kind. My husband, white hair and all and on the farrrrr side of 21 was asked for ID. All he could do was stand there and laugh. It made absolutely NO sense at all.

Same thing happened to me in Indy this summer. I was clearly old enough to be this young man's mother. I laughed all the way to the car to get my ID. But hey everything arrived home cold and safe.

Don't allow anyone under 21. End of story. Enforce your own rules/policies. Since there are some liquor stores DO follow their own policies and have yet to go under (everytime I have bought in the store), I fail to see it as a drastic business mistake. If there are any articles/studies/laws on the books regarding such, then I'd like to view them; it would be interesting to see the difference.

I was refering to the fact that Liquor Barn is so much more than a liquor store. Not allowing customers under 21 to buy all the non-alcoholic items is crazy. But if they choose to keep and post a no one under 21allowed, they should enforce it.

Sidenote: Are people allowed in a true liquor store if under 21, with a parent or not?

I have been in the" Liquor only" stores outside Whole Foods and Meijer with my kids many times. Never been a problem for them to be in the store. But shortly after I moved here, I went to the tiny Meijer liquor store with my daughter and had three bottles, so I asked her to carry one to the register to put it down. I was told in no uncertain terms that minors were not allowed to carry liquor under any circumstance...

America is unbelievably anally retentive about alcohol. Tonight's schnitzel night at my local pub so me and Junior will be down there scoping out the girls and I'll be having a few delicious Weizenbiers to wash down my Jägerschnitzel. Mmmm.

The inconsistency of enforcement is truly an oddity. My wife and I had a nearly identical situation as David H. and his spouse earlier this summer. However, last night on my lunch break from work, I waltzed up to "Growler Heaven" at the Springhurst location and sampled some draft. I was not asked for ID there or at the register (I'm sure they assumed that I had already been carded). I'm a young looking 27 year old. So strange. If anything, I'd want to ensure that someone who had imbibed a couple of 6 oz samples of 10+% beers on my premises was at least of age (let alone stayed for a while).

I think if they enforced their rules equally, there would not be as big an issue. Stay consistent and that should take away most of the frustration.

While most people scoffed at Indiana's ID laws when they first came out in July, it has proven to be very effective in keeping minors out of the stores, and from trying to purchase alcohol. While it has been frustrating to a lot of people, but it has been consistent in the fact that we have to card everyone makes it a bit easier. We don't have to make a judgment call on how old anyone is, they just have to show their ID. People have gotten used to the law that we have to ID, so that has made things easier as well.

we had same situation as you did at the Hurstbourne Liquor Barn couple years ago. 4 of us went inside of the store to get some beers & of course the cashier asked for IDs & one of friends left her ID at home so he couldn't sell us the beer. Then we went outside of parking lot & told that friend to stay in the car. This time 2 of us went inside and at the checkout the cashier told us he couldn't sell us the beer either because he saw our friends who didn't have ID with us before. i was like what a joke!

[quote="David H."]This isn't directly related to Restaurants, so Robin, please feel free to move...

I had an unusual occurence this weekend at the Springhurst Liquor Barn. I was buying a 4-pack of beer (Dogfish Head Punkin Ale... mmm...) At the register I was carded, which I fully expected. I'm 26 years old, and may get carded 20% of the time at restaurants, but 100% of the time at liquor stores.

[Robin Garr]

RULES ARE RULES.

Say! Are you SURE you are Italian?

Annemarie,
The sign doesn't say you have have ID to enter. I'm a pretty "rules" kind of girl, and I never would have guessed they would refuse to sell to your friend if you didn't have ID. There are no signs in the parking lot to warn you not to enter if all the people in your party/car don't have ID.
Deb

[Robin Garr]

110% ...

Isn't it the Italians who call the Ten Commandments "the Ten Suggestions"?

If an agent or an employee of a Ky. ABC licensee sells or gives alcohol to someone under the age of 21, they are able to be criminally charged with a Class A misdemeanor. But, Ky. law does not mandate presenting identification verifying age of majority to purchase alcohol. It's up to each individual ABC licensee to determine their own policy so as to protect themselves, their agents and employees from being charged criminally.

110% ...

Isn't it the Italians who call the Ten Commandments "the Ten Suggestions"?

They're more like....guidelines

[Robin Garr]

They're more like....guidelines

It depends on who you know ...