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Many years of skiing in Salt Lake City, and besides the highly restrictive drinking laws in the '80's, the drinks were considerably watered down in bars and restaurants.
The prices were low, but it was very difficult to "get fuzzy in the legs".
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Yeah, there's some absurd law about how much alcohol can be served in a mixed drink.
I'm fuzzy on the details 'cause i've never bothered to order anything like that.
I'm not sure if that was one of the regulations that was loosened in recent years, either.
Basically, we have the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Nobody on the DABC board drinks. The DABC is the only entity that can sell anything stronger than regular beer in a bottle, and they jack up the prices at their stores because they have no competition and they just plain feel like it.
Under governor Huntsman, some of the regulations were loosened a bit. The "private club" requirement is gone - instead the bars have to record your ID and store it for a short time (a few days or something).
At the same time, we had state legislators who took the alcopops out of grocery stores (no great loss) and almost passed a law prohibiting the sale of refrigerated beer in containers.
Huntsman was a progressive with broad appeal, so Obama got him out of the way by appointing him ambassador to china. He makes a lot of sense as an ambassador to china because he speaks the language fluently and has done a great deal of business with chinese companies over the years. But that was probably just icing on top of getting him out of the way in 2012.
So now we're stuck with Gary Herbert for a while. A guy who wants to sue the federal government for reforming health care. I don't think he ever thought he'd be governor, and i doubt he thinks he'll ever be governor again.