BYO was pretty common in Australia as the licensing laws were gradually loosened up. It's still around as a sort of "halfway there" thing for small restaurants that can't be bothered with stocking a range of beer and wine for six tables or if the owner isn't interested in jumping through the hoops required for a restaurant liquor license.
You need a license to sell any sort of alcoholic drink and it must be a separate area so the supermarkets tend to have a store attached to one side with its own set of registers so that you have to exit one to go to the other. Pubs usually have a drive through bottleshop that has a limited range, but it covers the sort of stuff that a 19 year old will want to take to a party. Unless you want something very obscure the best place to go is one of the large wine discounters. The prices are the best and the range is usually the best too. My GF is allergic to sulfites which are used in almost all wines as preservatives. The only place we can buy sulfite-free wines over the counter is the local discounter. The most interesting whisky experience I have had was being taken to the Edinburgh Scotch Whisky Society a couple of years ago by a friend who was a member. They buy their own barrels and then get the various distilleries to fill a couple of barrels and let them mature. When they are bottled they are sold exclusively through the society to members. Some were very, very expensive. Anyway he bought a variety of whiskies for us to taste and showed the difference between watered and straight. Very educational and their somewhat whimsical tasting notes actually made a bit of sense. Paul Ewins Melbourne, Australia -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Loveless The LCB also regulates the number of licenses for restaurants. I have never lived anywhere else that had restaurants with BYOB signs on the door. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
