Is kegging legal in Utah?

[RachmaelBenApplebaum]

Oklahoma has 3.2 beer and that is what it is called. It is sold at bars gas stations and so o Beer that is above 3.2 has to come from the liquor store and is not sold cold.

Can't even buy it COLD? What a drag. I love AZ, Liquor sales only stop for 4 hours out of the day (2am-6am) every day, and you can get just about anything you'd want from grocery, gas station, or specialty store. We also have Drive-thru liquor stores! Some of which not only sell liquor but groceries, tackle, bait, hunting/fishing licenses, and ammunition! Blessed are we.

 

[WayFrae]

Can't even buy it COLD? What a drag. I love AZ, Liquor sales only stop for 4 hours out of the day (2am-6am) every day, and you can get just about anything you'd want from grocery, gas station, or specialty store. We also have Drive-thru liquor stores! Some of which not only sell liquor but groceries, tackle, bait, hunting/fishing licenses, and ammunition! Blessed are we.

Yeah it isn't cold from the liquor stores but two of the local breweries, Wasatch and Squatters, teamed up and opened The Beer Store where you can get growlers filled and buy COLD beer and merch. They will even tell you if any beer was bottled that day. Getting their Double IPA the day it was bottled was one of the best days of my life haha.

 

[Gameface]

The state law calls it out as 3.2% ABW.

It's a hold over from the repeal of the Volstead Act. The first alcohol that was made legal prior to the full repeal of Prohibition was "small beer". Small beer was defined as 3.2% ABW. It's in the years since Prohibition that ABV became used more than ABW.


The thing that frustrates me about the kegging law is if they want to make it illegal for individuals, fine. But make it legal for restaurants and bars to serve greater than 4% ABV beer from.

The thing about "3.2" that bugs me the most is that it is used to directly compare liquor store beer to non-liquor store beer and to compare out of state beer to "Utah" beer.

People here actually drive to Evanston, Wy so they can buy Bud Lite at full strength, which happens to be 4.2% abv, a whopping 0.2% stronger than the Bud Light they could buy at their local gas station. But because everyone calls it "3.2" beer they think they are getting much more bang for their buck than they are actually getting.

 

[Brewtah]

Utah laws for home brewing are pretty liberal. It became offically legal in 2009. Although there has been home brewing stores here for decades. There is no limit on ABV. Not sure of definition on spirits, that is illegal. It is legal to make wine. One person can "legally" make 100 gallons of beer per year. A couple can make 200 gallons of beer a year.
The laws that are screwy deal with purchasing beer in a retail setting. I don't know anyone that have driven to Wyoming to purchase beer, unless it is a keg, since high school.
I keg beer so no need. If I purchase beer it is usually a wide variety. I don't need 16 gallons of Budweiser. I purchased 2 small kegs for my wedding. The restaurant purchased them for me from a local micrebrewery.
In my opinion, Utah is a pretty good place to be a home brewer or wine maker. No dry counties :cross: