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  • To my knowledge you do not have to be 21 to enter a bar just to purchase anything harder than a coke. You may be thinking about dance clubs and they are well within their rights to restrict access if they so choose to to prevent underage drinking.
  • You don't necessarily, but some clubs DO restrict their patrons to 21 and older. If a bar is caught selling alcoholic beverages to minors, even if they are unaware, the bar is legally responsible. Thus, some establishments like to card at the door to make sure they're not busted for serving kids beer.
  • Minors need to be accompanied by an adult when they enter a bar in the U. S. A. If they enter a bar alone, the bartender will ask them for ID or 86 them on sight!
  • 1) They have 20 bouncers? ;-) 2) "The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 states that revenue will be withheld from states that allow the purchase of alcohol by anyone under the age of 21. Some states do not allow those under the legal drinking age to be present in liquor stores or in bars (usually, the difference between a bar and a restaurant is whether food is being served). Contrary to popular belief, since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, few states specifically prohibit minors' and young adults' consumption of alcohol in private settings. As of January 1, 2007, 14 states and the District of Columbia ban underage consumption outright, 19 states do not specifically ban underage consumption, and an additional 27 states have family member and/or location exceptions to their underage consumption laws. Federal law explicitly provides for religious, medical, employment and private club possession exceptions; as of 2005, 31 states have family member and/or location exceptions to their underage possession laws. Underage purchase of alcohol, though illegal in all fifty states, is not a felony, but a misdemeanour. See Underage drinking in the United States. Many Local county governments particularly in the southern states of the USA, ban the sale, and in some cases consumption, of alcohol for all ages. Exceptions for private clubs are made in many counties (Dry county). Also, the sale of alcohol is banned by tribal governments on some Indian (Native American) lands." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
  • You don't. At least in AZ, you can go in, you just can't drink or buy drinks. And they'll usually kick you out after 10PM.
  • either because you don't know the bartender/doorman or because you obey the law.
  • Most bars are 18 or over, but some are 21. The legal drinking age in most states is 21.
  • I'm guessing 21
  • it's just the easiest way to keep underage kids from drinking. if you are under 21, and in a bar, chances are... you're scoring some booze for yourself.

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