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Posted: 1/26/2021 11:00:18 PM EDT
Things I learned:
They cannot sell real beer cold Prices are fucking insane They cannot sell 1.5oz single serve shots A security guard up front runs the entire operation Being from Las Vegas, the whole thing is confusing and retarded White stuff is falling from the sky and no one seems to care Currently sitting in a hotel room waiting for my beer to cool down in an ice bucket. |
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Bring your own next time. At least one can get more than 3.2 beer in that state now.
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How is that even a thing in the US?
That's so ass backwards, goddamn |
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I was passing through Utah a few years ago. Stopped at a bar and asked for a beer. Bartender asked what I would like to eat.
Umm, just the beer is fine.... Nope, have to have some kind of food to order a beer. Got some pretzel mix or something. Odd |
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Quoted: How is that even a thing in the US? That's so ass backwards, goddamn View Quote Magic underwear rules. I was warned before the first time I went so brought my own cases of beer and liquor. We have state regulated liquor stores but you can at least buy what you want. ETA- found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state#Utah |
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Many counties in Arkansas are dry , no alcohol sales period !
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Quoted: Things I learned: They cannot sell real beer cold Prices are fucking insane They cannot sell 1.5oz single serve shots A security guard up front runs the entire operation Being from Las Vegas, the whole thing is confusing and retarded White stuff is falling from the sky and no one seems to care Currently sitting in a hotel room waiting for my beer to cool down in an ice bucket. View Quote Bravo! I have been to a strip club in SLC in the 90s on a Sunday night. Wasn't as weird as you would expect. |
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Damn!
And I thought not being able to buy fire water on Jesuses birthday was bad in my county! |
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I’ve said it before: If they had the same amount of power, the Flanderses in this country would pose the same threat to liberty that the fucking communists do.
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Come to Louisiana.
We have drive through bars. You can buy liquor at a gas station. |
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Come to PA. You can't buy beer and liquor in the same place. If you get 6 packs from a bar you can only carry out 2 at a time, but you can go in and out as many times as you want.
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California does pretty much everything ass backwards but our liquor laws are one thing the state does correctly. Of course that’s probably so you can drink your sorrows away for having to live in this damn place.
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Quoted: Things I learned: They cannot sell real beer cold Prices are fucking insane They cannot sell 1.5oz single serve shots A security guard up front runs the entire operation Being from Las Vegas, the whole thing is confusing and retarded White stuff is falling from the sky and no one seems to care Currently sitting in a hotel room waiting for my beer to cool down in an ice bucket. View Quote This is exactly why if you live in southern Utah and you mention to anyone that you're going to Mesquite or Vegas, you instantly get drink orders. I've been to a state store here like twice. They're overpriced, underwhelming and the selection is garbage unless you just want a handle of Stoli or whatever. There's a reason that the little place in the middle of nowhere named Mesquite, just a 20ish minute drive over the border, keeps expanding the size of its liquor store that is basically almost the size of a Costco now. If you're buying alcohol at the state store, you're either landlocked in the middle of the state, a complete alcoholic, or a tourist. |
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I was in Salt lake about 1998.
Walked the streets with my crew looking for a bar. They were all private requiring membership. Some smooth brain standing in the corner said we had to be a members guest. We then would stand outside the bar staring at some lonely bastard at the bar. He would invite us in, we would then have to buy him and his buddies a round of beers. We would then join the club as his guest. Fucking weird world in Mormon town. As an aside, we were told repeatedly by bike cops that we would be jumped by crips/bloods if we were walking. |
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Quoted: LoL Around here people blame the mexicans for the one area we can buy beer on Sunday I love mexicans View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Damn! And I thought not being able to buy fire water on Jesuses birthday was bad in my county! LoL Around here people blame the mexicans for the one area we can buy beer on Sunday I love mexicans You mean Catholics? Half Irish Catholic here... fuck the puritans. |
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Oregon has the OLCC, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which sets prices for the entire state after adding their cut (taxes) to the price.
I've always found it interesting how racketeering is illegal, except for when the government does it. |
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UT has some unusual liquor laws for sure, but I really enjoyed the $5 "large flask" sized bottles of 190proof Everclear from the liquor store when I was there, I bought 5 at a time to make about a 5th worth. And the $3 60-ish oz bottles of Coors light at the bar (never seen them anywhere else in my travels). Sure it was only 4% alcohol versus 4.8% or whatever Coors light is outside UT, but it made up for it in volume and affordability, 2 at a time please barkeep.
ETA: 200mL bottles of Everclear in UT are $6.50 now, a 5th is 750mL. https://abc.utah.gov/products/interactive-product-list/ Its listed under "vodka/basic", alphabetically by brandname |
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Quoted: Lots of states do. UT is just extra tarded. We voted to end the state liquor monopoly almost a decade ago, it's nice, but it came with a tax hike on booze. View Quote Logically it should have come with a drop in taxes since you're no longer having to fund the inefficient .gov. Moronic. |
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Quoted: UT has some unusual liquor laws for sure, but I really enjoyed the $5 "large flask" sized bottles of 190proof Everclear from the liquor store when I was there, I bought 5 at a time to make about a 5th worth. And the $3 60-ish oz bottles of Coors light at the bar (never seen them anywhere else in my travels). Sure it was only 4% alcohol versus 4.8% or whatever Coors light is outside UT, but it made up for it in volume and affordability, 2 at a time please barkeep. View Quote You know a drunks just gonna drink twice as many beers to get drunk, so not only do you have a drunk on your hands, but you got a drunk who's fat and gross |
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Stop at Lees in Mesquite before you cross the border. Only 30 miles from St. George.
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Indiana isn’t bad, we can now finally buy alcohol on Sundays. The one thing we can’t do is buy cold beer at a grocery or convenience store. I find it weird when I go to the south that I can’t usually buy beer and alcohol under the same roof. So I guess we’re not too bad.
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Quoted: This is exactly why if you live in southern Utah and you mention to anyone that you're going to Mesquite or Vegas, you instantly get drink orders. I've been to a state store here like twice. They're overpriced, underwhelming and the selection is garbage unless you just want a handle of Stoli or whatever. There's a reason that the little place in the middle of nowhere named Mesquite, just a 20ish minute drive over the border, keeps expanding the size of its liquor store that is basically almost the size of a Costco now. If you're buying alcohol at the state store, you're either landlocked in the middle of the state, a complete alcoholic, or a tourist. View Quote Username checks out |
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Interesting that AZ, NV, GA and others can't run a legal election but can bitch
about UT liquor laws. |
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Quoted: Come to PA. You can't buy beer and liquor in the same place. If you get 6 packs from a bar you can only carry out 2 at a time, but you can go in and out as many times as you want. View Quote I prefer the current setup much more that a few years ago, when distributors could only sell >12 packs. Do grocery stores still have a limit? |
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Quoted: Oregon has the OLCC, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which sets prices for the entire state after adding their cut (taxes) to the price. I've always found it interesting how racketeering is illegal, except for when the government does it. View Quote I've ordered hard to find booze off of various sites because local distributors neck beard the good bourbon from time to time. Just sayin |
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Is Moab different than the rest of the state?
Stayed there a couple of years ago, the restaurants seemed jacked, but the has station had good cold beer. |
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Yep, it's really quite unfortunate. I have a house in Utah and spend a lot of time there. I was down in Vegas last weekend and stocked up at an amazing liquor store. It's stupid that the government gets a poorly run monopoly on alcohol sales.
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I always pictured liquor stores in Utah being a running joke, and selling nothing but bottled water. Or would that be coffee shops?
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If all you want is cold beer I'm pretty sure they sold that at WalMart and the grocery stores when I was working in UT last year.
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I've never been in a state without weird hooch laws, to my knowledge anyway. Maryland seemed straight on paper, but typically there's always something or another that's dumb.
Virginia had state run liquor. Now in the land of gators and methheads, there are no 40 ozs, it's hard but not impossible to find six packs of pints, and our liquor licenses are capped and distributed via random lottery that anybody can pay the entrance fee for, so you end up finding some odd ass places that sell liquor. Because Floridaman McGee's great grandfather won the lottery 100 years ago and now he uses that to sell moonshine out of his shed. |
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They sell 6 point beer at the grocery store in the cold case. Just have to go to the liquor store for anything over 6 now.
Last time i was through denver i bough $400 of beer at Tipsy's. |
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Never once bought anything at a state ran liquor store in Utah. Class 6 FTW!
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