Grain Alcohol Permit?

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Posted: 10/22/2018 10:29:52 PM EDT

Was just surfing around and poked in on the VA ABC website and looked to see if it listed everclear. It does but states you need a grain alcohol permit to buy everclear.

Its got me curious if anyone has run into this or applied for the permit?

Posted: 10/23/2018 12:26:01 AM EDT

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From what I have seen since July 1 2017.One can now buy the 151 proof Everclear.But you still can not buy the 190 proof unless you get the permit.

Posted: 10/23/2018 7:54:22 AM EDT

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how does one get a permit?

Posted: 10/23/2018 8:55:35 AM EDT

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Just a guess...the local state ABC office....the same way you would get a permit for just about anything else ABC related

Posted: 10/23/2018 10:10:34 AM EDT

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They have the form on their website. You fill it out and mail it in. Surprisingly they aren't asking for money. After approval you can take the paperwork they give you and buy alcohol over 151 proof. But you pretty much have to order it from their website and have it sent to a local ABC to pick it up. Since you can't buy it without a permit none of the stores I saw stock it.

Posted: 10/23/2018 1:11:25 PM EDT

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Or you can make a Maryland run.......they sell it up there.

Posted: 10/24/2018 2:38:14 PM EDT

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Just make sure you stay within the limit.

They like to take vehicles from anyone caught bootlegging liquor.
IIRC it was a single gallon of pure alcohol equivalent.

Posted: 10/24/2018 3:17:30 PM EDT

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They like to take vehicles from anyone caught bootlegging liquor.
IIRC it was a single gallon of pure alcohol equivalent.

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If I buy a case of everclear in WV and drive back to VA, the police can seize my car?

I shoudn't be surprised.

Posted: 10/24/2018 4:44:57 PM EDT

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If you git chased by revenuers, you could make a run for it on the back-roads & try to lose 'em!

(Joking of course). The entire everclear permitting scheme is ridiculous.

Posted: 10/24/2018 6:34:25 PM EDT

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I think Maryland has banned the sale of 190 proof Everclear, so you'd have to make the run into DC where it's still available.

Posted: 10/26/2018 1:52:30 PM EDT

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They like to take vehicles from anyone caught bootlegging liquor.
IIRC it was a single gallon of pure alcohol equivalent.

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Or you can make a Maryland run.......they sell it up there.

Just make sure you stay within the limit.

They like to take vehicles from anyone caught bootlegging liquor.
IIRC it was a single gallon of pure alcohol equivalent.

It's OK, I saw this documentary about how to do it right!

Smokey and the Bandit.The legend.Jerry Reed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0OflL0INck

Posted: 10/27/2018 5:01:10 PM EDT

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Maybe we are getting off topic, but DC supposedly also has its own Costco, and they supposedly even sell liquor.

A friend keeps trying to talk me into making the trek into DC for him so I can buy him some Kirkland vodka.

Just putting it out there. Frankly I am not in need of either Everclear or Kirkland vodka.

Posted: 10/29/2018 10:42:58 AM EDT

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Maybe we are getting off topic, but DC supposedly also has its own Costco, and they supposedly even sell liquor.

A friend keeps trying to talk me into making the trek into DC for him so I can buy him some Kirkland vodka.

Just putting it out there. Frankly I am not in need of either Everclear or Kirkland vodka.

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While I also need neither Kirkland vodka or Everclear, the DC Costco does in fact sell liquor similar to other places in the U.S. where the law permits it. DC's liquor laws are surprisingly less restrictive than those in many Maryland counties (Maryland's laws on liquor distribution are determined at that level) and much better than Virginia's state run joke of a system. The liquor retail sales tax is higher than Virginia's sales tax which is the only other downside than that you have to go into DC.

Posted: 10/29/2018 1:41:32 PM EDT

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While I also need neither Kirkland vodka or Everclear, the DC Costco does in fact sell liquor similar to other places in the U.S. where the law permits it. DC's liquor laws are surprisingly less restrictive than those in many Maryland counties (Maryland's laws on liquor distribution are determined at that level) and much better than Virginia's state run joke of a system. The liquor retail sales tax is higher than Virginia's sales tax which is the only other downside than that you have to go into DC.

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Maybe we are getting off topic, but DC supposedly also has its own Costco, and they supposedly even sell liquor.

A friend keeps trying to talk me into making the trek into DC for him so I can buy him some Kirkland vodka.

Just putting it out there. Frankly I am not in need of either Everclear or Kirkland vodka.

While I also need neither Kirkland vodka or Everclear, the DC Costco does in fact sell liquor similar to other places in the U.S. where the law permits it. DC's liquor laws are surprisingly less restrictive than those in many Maryland counties (Maryland's laws on liquor distribution are determined at that level) and much better than Virginia's state run joke of a system. The liquor retail sales tax is higher than Virginia's sales tax which is the only other downside than that you have to go into DC.

~~IIRC Virginia is nailing you for around $8 a 'proof gallon.'~~

The tax is now just 20%.

Posted: 10/30/2018 10:55:41 AM EDT

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I wasn't focused on that aspect, but very true. Government has to get their cut as many times as possible.

I was just thinking of the differential between the 10% DC liquor tax vs. the northern Virginia sales tax rate of 6%. The layers of taxes on so many things really does amaze me sometimes.

Posted: 10/31/2018 2:24:42 PM EDT

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For many years VSP and ABC agents have made it a habit to troll parking lots
in Georgetown across the river around the winter holidays.

The DC police sometimes chase them off.

They are looking for the Holiday Party Crowd violating the liquor laws
and bringing cases of booze into Virginia from DC.

It appears to have gone down somewhat lately, but for a while in the 1980s is was a
big effort.
Eagle Wine and Liquor was just two blocks from the Key Bridge on the DC side and was a pretty big store.
It was sold in1998 or so and IIRC never reopened.

I have not shopped for booze in DC in many years now.
Calvert/Woodley used to be another bargain DC store.

They used to run an ad in the Washington Post Sports Section almost every weekend.
Sometimes it would be in the Metro Section back pages.

Posted: 11/25/2018 3:36:30 AM EDT

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Thanks, I been meaning to restock on 190 for awhile!

Posted: 11/26/2018 5:08:16 PM EDT

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I have not shopped for booze in DC in many years now.
Calvert/Woodley used to be another bargain DC store.

Thanks, I been meaning to restock on 190 for awhile!

Long ago when ABC still sold it, my father would purchase it when I needed some to clean quartz halogen stage lighting bulbs,

A long time ago (late 1970s) those things cost a couple hundred each for the larger ones.

Touch that quartz envelope with a finger, then install, and turn it on.
They explode in about 10 to 20 minutes.

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