I gotta say it’s a bit comical reading about North Carolina’s liquor laws and the ABC system. Furthermore I read drinking wine and beer on the boats ok (up to .08 for driver) but god forbid you had a vodka and lemonade in your hand. Distilleries can’t sell you more the 1.5 oz per customer and 5 bottles total an entire year. Wtf?
If a bar needs a bottle of booze they could have to drive to some far away ABC if that’s the one that has it versus getting it local. Mixer tax that bars/restaurants have to pay. Boy it goes on and on.
Being from NY a lot of this is like WTF??? to me. Lol.

Reason I got looking into this is I am researching all aspects of things as we are moving south in a year or so and NC was a high contender.

So I am curious for real world insight on this.

I’m not a huge drinker anymore to be honest. Beer here and there. Craft beer sometimes. Wine once in a great wine. Generally only liquor I tend to touch is vodka in a mixed drink.

So first question is how difficult is it to get? Just hitup an abc and buy some vodka? Are there annual limits? Like if I want 6-1.75L bottles over a year is that an issue?

Let’s say on Lake Norman for example.... if I want to have some vodka and lemonade on me and drink some is this something I’d expect to be harassed about often by the police or are they relatively lax on this? I realize the exceptions for boats with staterooms/bathrooms etc but I’m just a pontooner.

I wanna go out on the weekend here and there. Have 4-5 mixed drinks over the course of an entire day on the water. Be mostly me and the wife. We don’t cause any riff raff out there to draw attention as I’m pushing 40. At the worst sometimes I play music loud but obviously turn down around cops. So just looking for some real world answers from folks living there.

I have been drinking so maybe I am not understanding you post. I have never been limited on purchases of vodka over a period of a year.

It’s ok when under moderation. A shot of vodka...no worse then a can of beer or glass of wine.

Looks like there are purchase limits in N.C. and I read distilleries can sell direct up to 5 bottles per 365 days.
At the ABC looks like you can buy up to 8 liters per visit.

*been googling this in depth further since my first post.

Please don’t move south until your grammar improves.

Lol. Typing on my iPhone. Revised it for ya.

You’ll find there’s less to drown out with booze down South. Beside the fact, if you’re concerned you won’t be able to get enough from one liquor store, just hit the next one. Usually on the coast unless in a desolate area there are multiple ABC stores

No concerns once I found out it’s 8 liters per visit. Lol. That’s more then I’d drink in a year. When I read the 5 bottles per year thing I was worried that was for all instances; as in all anyone is allowed is just the 5 bottles, period. I was saying to myself man what if one wanted to have a house party or some kind of weekend event. 5 bottles wouldn’t go far.

I’ll stock up before I move. Lol.

Lol. A 400k house here has 25k a year in property tax. F yes I can’t wait to leave NY.

Same house in N.C. 3k.

I’m upstate ny. 5.5 hours from city. Crime is about as wild as someone graffiti’d some old abandoned bridge.

Most folks in the south can handle a blithering drunk, tolerate arrogant yankees and forgive most behavior but if you harbor any Socialist leanings or don’t respect our Flag, you might find “adjusting” to be a very lonely process. If you happen to Love our country, respect our Troops and don’t start telling everyone how backwards they are, you’ll likely fit in.

No issues here..

restaurants and bars but from salesmen, not direct from the abc store

no restrictions on annual purchases

if you want to buy and transport more than 5 gallons you need a permit from the abc store, but no big deal.

-If you buy over a few gallons of the hard stuff the ABC store will give you a transport permit, no big deal.

-You have to buy the hard stuff from an ABC store and they are not all created equal.

To me me it’s pretty much the same system I grew up with in NH.

with that said, I don’t think I ever once looked into booze laws in any of the six states I have moved to before moving there.

Well it started just seeing what boating and drinking laws were. Then google was showing all these crazy articles about abc and the antiquated system that a lot want changed. Etc.