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Georgia: Where can you buy liquor?
Private licensed stores
Georgia licenses private retail package liquor stores to sell distilled spirits to consumers; the state does not sell liquor.
The state Department of Revenue licenses package stores that sell distilled spirits, wine and beer in unopened packages to consumers. No state-run stores or state wholesale system were found. City and county rules commonly matter for package stores, but this record covers state law only.
What the law says
A Retail Package Liquor Store is any business establishment that sells alcoholic beverages, malt beverages, wine and distilled spirits, either in unbroken packages only at retail, to consumers and not for resale.
Sources
- Georgia Department of Revenue, Retail Package Official · dor.georgia.gov
Confirm with the state
- Agency
- Georgia Department of Revenue, Alcohol and Tobacco Division
- Website
- dor.georgia.gov
How bordering states compare
- Alabama State wholesale, private storesAlabama's ABC Board runs its own liquor stores and sells liquor at wholesale, and it also licenses private stores to sell liquor.
- Florida Private licensed storesFlorida licenses private package stores to sell liquor; those stores must sell only alcohol and have no inside connection to other businesses.
- North Carolina Government-run storesNorth Carolina sells liquor only in ABC stores run by local government ABC boards.
- South Carolina Private licensed storesSouth Carolina liquor is sold by privately owned retail liquor stores licensed by the Department of Revenue, which buy from licensed wholesalers.
- Tennessee Private licensed storesTennessee sells liquor through privately owned package stores licensed by the Alcoholic Beverage Commission.