But plenty have adapted their businesses to deliver alcohol to your door or for click and collect, from restaurants selling cocktails to breweries selling direct to the consumer. We’ve rounded up some of the businesses across the Sunderland, Durham and South Tyneside area.
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1. Blue's Micro Pub, Whitburn
Blues Micro Pub in Whitburn is open for takeout - check its social media channels for times - with a great range of bottles and cans on offer, such as a festive vanilla porter from Brass Castle Brewery and sour beers from Vault City Brewing. You can also pick up gift sets for Christmas. Photo: JPI Media
2. The Saltgrass, Deptford, Sunderland
The Saltgrass proved popular in the first lockdown with their takeaway drinks and they've reintroduced a takeaway menu for lockdown 2. You can pick up a range of cocktails, including Pink Gin Fizz and Sex on the Beach for £7.50 a litre and a range of beers for £3.50 a litre. Photo: JPI Media
3. Poetic License, Roker, Sunderland
One of Sunderland's most successful exports, 50,000 bottles of Poetic License gin are made at the distillery at the Roker Hotel each year and sold worldwide, as well as being stocked on the shelves of supermarket chains such as Asda and high-end stores including Harvey Nichols. Shop its core range, seasonal range and limited edition Rarities range at www.poeticlicensedistillery.co.uk Photo: submitted
4. Port Bierhaus, St Thomas Street, Sunderland
Specialising in North East brews from the likes of Darwin Brewery, Anarchy Brew Co, Durham Brewery, Full Circle Brew Co and more, Port Bierhaus has an excellent range of craft ales on offer. Buy for take away at their shop or order online at PortBierhaus.com. Get 20% off all orders over £30 with the code "Locked20" Photo: JPI Media