Liquor License for Home

[M@(tm)]

The distributors I get my kegs from have much better prices and allow credit cards for purchasers who are "on account."

The #1 requirement is that you have a liquor license.

I spent a while on NH Liquor Commission page, and can't find anything saying I have to be a business - but when I called the first person I got said, "No - we won't do that" and I couldn't get any further.

Anyone have any info on getting a liquor license? I think it costs $100 and I think it knocks $20 off the price of a keg... plus not having to show up with cash - and possibly even getting them to deliver!

And then I hear the, "How do you know you drink to much" question being asked.

M@

[bonefish]

The county I live in has a lottery you have to apply to, to even be considered for a liquor license. So, they sell for around $60,000. My info might be a little wrong in the numbers department, but its not wrong by far.
Get to know your liquor store owner/manager, tell him you have a homestyle kegorator, and tell him how much you plan on purchasing. I had a problem with some punk clerk not ordering my kegs on time, so I went shopping elsewhere. I told the new liquor store my problem and that I had purchased 23 kegs the previous year. That got his attention. He knows every person that asks me where I get my kegs, will be sent to him. I get them at cost. That's about a $30.00 discount. I buy an extra 12 pack for the keg to acclimate, and a bottle of liquor for the cabinet.

SEAN

[shuggy]

The distributors I get my kegs from have much better prices and allow credit cards for purchasers who are "on account."

The #1 requirement is that you have a liquor license.

I spent a while on NH Liquor Commission page, and can't find anything saying I have to be a business - but when I called the first person I got said, "No - we won't do that" and I couldn't get any further.

Anyone have any info on getting a liquor license? I think it costs $100 and I think it knocks $20 off the price of a keg... plus not having to show up with cash - and possibly even getting them to deliver!

And then I hear the, "How do you know you drink to much" question being asked.

M@

The only way to get a license is to have a place of business. You actually think they are going to give them to anybody who has $100 and can fill out an application? Everybody and their brother would have a license if that was the case.

Here in PA there are only so many liquor licenses per county and they are all already owned by somebody. You can't just open a business and get a license. You have to purchase the license from somebody else that already has the license. You likely can't even begin to obtain one without $100,000+

[bonefish]

"You have to purchase the license from somebody else that already has the license. You likely can't even begin to obtain one without $100,000+." shuggy
My point, exactly.
Maybe he's referring to a "business" license.
SEAN

[atalanta]

And here the rules for beer and liquor are so "antiquated" that it's not funny. The rules are so localized, the best bet is to either talk to a friendly bartender, beer distributor, or liquor dealer to get some info. (Here you buy beer from a beer distributor and liquor from a "state store" and neither at a grocery store - except for a few pilot locations).

[Gregory Earl]

Liquor licenses are very very expensive no matter where you live.
The legal drug trade business is not cheap. If it were we would all have a license.

Bottom line is Uncle Sam wants his cut. And his cut is big and getting bigger from year to year. In other words, "If you pay me X amount of dollars, I'll allow you to buy and dispense this drug liquor". That's what it is man. Liquor licenses and alcohol taxes are just a pay-off to your government to allow it to be legal.