Flying with alcohol

[freeradical]

Ombligo wrote:
[quote=freeradical]
So, you can check large quantities of fluid, but you can't carry them on?

That has been an issue with overseas connecting flights. Passengers buy duty free liquor overseas, it is delivered to them at the gate and they fly back to to the US, go through customs, etc with no issue UNTIL they go to board their connecting flight to another US city. Then that same bottle is not allowed because it is too much liquid for carryon. They didn't find out until their bags were rechecked in.

End result - good liquor in the trash (where it was quickly snarfed up by airport employees)

I've never been interested in the duty free liquor shops. When I've brought back booze from overseas, it was always something unusual or hard to find in the US. I have a bottle of Korean soju with a Ginseng root in it. I've had that bottle for almost 20 years.

[sekker]

Isn't the best way to smuggle alcohol simple - ingestion?!

[D. Lawson]

DRR wrote:
What do you mean you "can't get them back home due to alcohol content?"

This is beer right? (There are certain limitations on alcohol content but they're for hard alcohol - 140+ proof. )

I'm not sure where Mark is, but here in Ohio, anything sold/labeled as "beer" legally cannot be above 12% ABV, which is why we can't get Dogfish Head's 120 Minute here (as an example).

[DRR]

freeradical wrote:
[quote=DRR]
[quote=freeradical]
So, you can check large quantities of fluid, but you can't carry them on?

Yes. Up to a limit of course.
A few years ago, some TSA thug wouldn't let me bring an almost empty container of toothpaste in my carry on bag.
Had a similar issue a few years ago. I learned that when the 3 oz rule was in full effect TSA went by what was marked on the container. So you couldn't have 1 oz in a 5 oz container for example.

TSA relies on rules and regulations rather than thought and common sense.

[Buzz]

sekker wrote:
Isn't the best way to smuggle alcohol simple - ingestion?!

Yep... just drink 'em first, and tell 'em about it later... :-)

if not; padding and plastic.


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[Markiscool]

I'm in St. Louis and flying back to Alabama. The issue with the restriction has to do with the alcohol content on these beers. It is too high to be sold in Alabama, so we can't get some really good stuff. Im just wanting to take a few back to my father for his Christmas stocking stuffer (he is a "beer nut" that loves trying new beers).

Just wanting to make sure I wasn't going to get pulled off a plane and searched because I was flying into a city where the beer wasn't legally sold.

-M

[Markiscool]

And of course, this would be in my bags in the belly of the plane, not up in the plane with me.

[DP]

Of course I don't need an aircraft to be flying with alcohol! Can't believe no one posted something like this except for something similar by Buzz-which is an appropriate user name too...

[Zoidberg]

You need this: http://www.baronbob.com/winerack-winegaggift.htm

[space-time]

I always bring lots of alcohol back to US and I never had an issue or a broken bottle.