Cold beer is illegal in Indiana unless you own a liquor store, but a lawsuit by the members of the Indiana Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association may turn things around. Cold beer has been illegal in Indiana for about 50 years, the exception is that the law governs the temperature at which beer can be sold among different classes of retailers. Indiana is the only state that regulates cold beers, and these laws are claimed to be unfair to liquor stores, which were allowed to sell cold beers in 1963.
The Indiana Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, indicates Indiana’s laws making cold beer illegal discriminates against grocery and convenience stores. Although beer drinkers may be happy about the lawsuit to make cold beer no longer illegal in Indiana, but they’ll probably start paying more for getting cold beer.
The executive director of the association, Scot Imus, said
In reviewing the history, it became more and more clear to us there really was not a rational basis for the current law. The fact the law says pharmacies, convenience stores and grocery stores are capable enough to sell the product warm, then it gets rather arbitrary about what temperature it can be sold at. When you change the temperature, it doesn’t change the alcohol content.
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