By Curmudgeon
From Paul Rolly's column in today's SL Trib:
The Utah way: Wasatch Beers has just unleashed its new brew, "The Devastator," an 8 percent "Double Bock" beer "that will make Utah proud," according to the brewery.I'm going to remember that the next time I hear Comrade Huntsman or Comrade Curtis or Comrade Bramble intone on about how the market works, and is the best possible regulator of supply and demand and price, and how we need to keep government from interfering with sound market mechanisms.
But before Wasatch can sell the beer to its brew-pub customers, it must first sell the brew to the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, haul the beer over to the state warehouse, where it will be stored at warmer temperatures, and then buy it back from the state at an 85 percent markup.
4 comments:
Ditto's once again Curm!
I will purchase that beer.
Never forget that the Republican/Mormon legislature figures out a way to control everything that has to do with anything alcoholic.
But before they can sell the beer to the ABC, they have to walk it around the bar or have the waitress do it.
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