bangalore is it a storm in a beer mug suddenly theres a debate on pub culture whatever that is and whether its good for the society statistics over the past 10 years shows that on the law order front pubs have not been dens of vice and lawlessness barring the stray incident in effect pubs are relaxing joints duly licensed by the state governmentlicences were issued to pubs by the government on the understanding that they would be safe places to drink eat and relax records make clear distinctions between pubs bars and wine stores and indicate that the amount of alcohol flowing out of pubs is not a matter of worrythe state excise department has defined pub bar and wine store as follows pub a place where only beer is sold in bulk but some pubs may also obtain licences to have bars and therefore some pubs with bars sell liquor other than beer too bar a place where all forms of liquor are and can be consumed on the premises irrespective of percentage of alcohol even food is consumed on location wine store a place where all forms of liquor beer vodka gin whisky etc are sold only as parcel not for consumption on premises the store has obtained licenses to sell all theselicences each has a different licence different timings to close different regulations on serving liquor one can run a pub and bar together by obtaining the appropriate licences pubs and bars can go together but wine stores cant be turned into bars and pubs as they have to sell liquor only as parcels to be taken away consumption on premises is not allowedbeer consumption on an average 100 litres a pub or two kegs on weekends it could reach 150 to 200 litres popular belief is a pub is doing ok if it can sell 100 litres on a weekend day weekdays it could come down to 50 litres even lesser sometimes as low as 10 litresaverage beer income from pubs coming down rs 15000 to rs 20000 a day on weekends is coming down to rs 8000 to rs 10000 a day falling roughly from rs 24 lakh to rs 12 lakh a month on weekend earnings in pubs pubs with bars make a little more money theyre expected to earn rs 50000 a day on weekends which is estimated now at rs 25000 to rs 30000 number of people coming into pubs is coming down resulting in lower demand for beer and lower income from beer salesrevenue from beer only for entire state200809 rs 441 cr 200708 rs 421 cr200607 rs 342 cr on average 30 per cent of this comes from bangalorealcohol content in liquorbeer 37 rum whisky vodka all more than 13