[David]

The alcohol laws in Utah are pretty weird. I was out there visiting a friend a couple years ago. We took a bottle of wine to a sushi bar. The restaurant had to take the bottle and open it for us after we were seated. As we were waiting for a table, we talked to the hostess. She said a guy came in a few days earlier dressed very well. He had a bottle of wine without the Utah tax stamp on it. They said they could not serve it to him. He said it was very expensive, rare bottle he'd been saving. They said no way. He persisted. They said no way. He finally said, good job, he was with the state!

Fortunately you could buy beer in a grocery store, but the same beer in a state store was a couple dollars more per 6 pack.