Utah dumps hundreds of cases of beer down drain due to new law
by Pinedale Online!
December 18, 2019
In November, a new law took effect in Utah that allows stronger beer to be sold in the state. The new law boosts the state cap on retail beer sold in grocery and convenience stores from 3.2% to 4% alcohol by weight.
The new rule meant that state-owned outlets would have to dump any 3.2% beer that wasn’t sold before November 1st. Customers took the opportunity to snap up beers at bargain prices before the law took into effect. On Friday, December 13th, the State still had around 275 cases of beer they could no longer legally sell. So the cans and bottles were rounded up and taken to the Wasatch Resource Recovery facility where they were dumped into a digester where the beer would reportedly be converted into natural gas and fertilizer. The cost of the destroyed beer was estimated at about $17,700.
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