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Utah - so many questions
CFetters_Nacho_Lover
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Mrs Nacho and I are headed to Utah next month, heading to Zion and Bryce. I know the Mormons only allow for 3.2% beer thanks to @haie many rants and that seems very un-American. I've heard rumors of some other strange liquor laws as well. Things like if you sit down at a restaurant, you have to order food in order to get a drink. Communist type rules basically.
Besides @89ute, does anyone here know anything about this? Where can I find info on what to expect when I want a beer which is pretty much my God-given right and should be enshrined in the Constitution.
TIA
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There's a reason that Utah fans showed out more to Husky Stadium last year than any other visitors. Yes it was going to be the last meeting in Seattle in a long time, but their fans acted like how I imagine a 10 year old would act like when they get to Nintendo Land in Japan.
And that's even with beers that I feel like are some of Seattle's worst offerings.
Beer lines at half time stretched way the fuck out into the concourse and made a huge mess.
Even when I've been to an opposing stadium or postgame bowl for the first time, I've never taken out my phone and recorded a video of me walking around like I saw at least 2 blue hair Utes do.
Unlike Pup, I had to Google. Apparently the Mormons are loosening up a bit. 3.2% ABV beer is no longer the max. Still a lot of communism in my opinion.
All shit talking aside, I had a coworker that took a road trip across to Colorado to visit the Coors Brewery (his wife actually had some work thing there), and he brought me back cans from Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. And while light, I did really like them. Germanic, simpler beers.
Maybe you can't get a 6.8% hazy like this Dissident Aggressor I'm drinking atm, but I feel like it's damn near impossible now to find shitty beer in the Western United States.
Let’s clean some stuff up here. UT 3.2 (ABW) was actually 4.0 (ABV) which how every other state measured things. So basically light beer strength (4.2 ABV). You can buy regular 5.0 ABV beer now at the grocery store.
Also there are no more special rules about getting drinks in bars or restaurants. KY has dry counties I assume. Utah does not.
Sister wives taking a walk
"Also there are no more special rules about getting drinks in bars or restaurants. KY has dry counties I assume. Utah does not."
Yah, i think that is just an Appalachian hilbilly thing ~ when I was in Tennessee years back in a little tiny town, the town was in a dry county! I asked a guy how the hell to get a drink in this freaking town and he said just drive to the end of this street [like 3 blocks] which leads out of town and a block later there is a drive in burger place where girls will roller-skate out to the car and serve you food and beer, wine or hard liquor drinks ~ so kind of a minimum / maximum thing. I had a burger and bourbon lunch in my car for the novelty of it.
He also advised that they were making white lightning in the woods that you could also buy, but that you needed a known escort for that activity.
I have never had a bad variety of Big Bad Baptist from Epic Brewing in Salt Lake City. One of my favorite beers. This one in particular is awesome:
And 12% ABV. I think Utah's just fine now.
The article I posted says otherwise on special rules and dry counties. The article is 3 years old but was the most current thing I found during my exhaustive research.
ATBS, the rules are much less stringent that I thought they’d be.
And yeah, Kentucky and Tennessee both have wet, dry and moist counties. Cou Thank you directly south is moist - the main town is wet but once you get into unincorporated county, it’s dry. We’ve looked at investment properties (cabins) here in Kentucky and in Tennessee and besides the driving distance, the other favor in not pulling the trigger was both cabins were in dry counties.
I've had a few variants of BBB that were lame, but on the whole it's usually really good.
Moral of the story: still some quirks, but way more chill than it used to be. Also I’ve only ever lived in Park City (not Mormon) and SLC (only a bit mormon) so the more drinking oriented parts of Utah.
At one time in Utah they made it a law that you could not buy individual beers - there was a lot of folks buying single beers and driving home after work. The result was more DUIs since they just started buying 6 packs and half cases. Sounds like a typical government solution to what they think was as issue. TITTT
Not sure if the law changed, that was years ago…
I have a buddy who lives in St. George, I'll axe him if he knows anything about the Bryce and Zion area. I know there are no issues in St George.
His reply.
No different than SLC - all the same. Draft beer is 5.5 and bottle can be whatever they want. Beer can be sold Sundays and we actually have bars down here. Most open at 11am
@AubreyPoppadapolis who posted here years ago, was from St. George. Yes I know, cool story bruh
Draft Beer has to be 5.5? Who tf came up with that law?
Lame.
Stopped for lunch in Hurricane at 11:25 AM and could not get a beer until noon. Not sure if it was a Sunday or not
Thanks 89Ute!
Had a couple Salt Lake City brews yesterday.
Cool fucking city!
Utahans are already into anal, armpit, polygamy and soaking
Do you really want to lube them up with high ABV beer?
That’s a level of freaky that scares even the Throbber.