Utah Beer

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:58:41 -0500, Walt
wrote:

Welsh cheddar, eh? Scottish and Irish cheddar are easy to come by, as
is sevaral varieties of English cheddar. But I've never seen Welsh
cheddar. I'll have to mosy on down to the fancy cheese shop and see if
they've got any...

Ah, well, it's been on order for two weeks, sir; I was expecting it
this morning.

bw

There are some "strange" liquor laws in Utah. I think in grocery
stores the beer is 3.2% just as it is in Colorado. In Utah the state
own and runs the liquor stores and there you can buy booze and 5% beer.

In some restaurants and in all of the private clubs you can get booze
and 5% beer. If you stay at a hotel, you are automatically a member of
their club. If you want to join an outside private club there is a
fee, like $5 or $10.

Of course if you are driving to Utah you can always bring your own

In the grog shop here (in oz) tonight, saw a slab of small bottles of
Budweiser piled out the front. For $49 a slab.
So lamb might be crazy prices in the US, but US crappy beer is crazy prices
here. In the US, that beer is much cheaper than our mass produced beer here.

My solace was that whoever bought it, would feel angrily ripped off when
they drank it.


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AstroPax wrote:
On 31 Oct 2005 05:20:58 -0800, "Jeff" wrote:

I'd just like some good beer and some
descent food when I get off the slopes Is that possible?

BTW, if you happen to go downtown, this place has good food, and the
beer ain't too bad either...

http://www.squatters.com/

Really, it's not that far from Snowbird.

-Astro

Thanks,

This is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. I did get
some of this stuff via google, but the party laws and Squatters links
were perfect.

Cheers,
Jeff

BTW, if you happen to go downtown, this place has good food, and the
beer ain't too bad either...

http://www.squatters.com/


I like Red Rock Brewing as well.....a short stumble from Squatters.

AstroPax wrote:
On 31 Oct 2005 05:20:58 -0800, "Jeff" wrote:

I'd just like some good beer and some
descent food when I get off the slopes Is that possible?

BTW, if you happen to go downtown, this place has good food, and the
beer ain't too bad either...

http://www.squatters.com/

Squatters, eh? Are they a competitor to the Outback? Cause the name
"squatters" kinda draws an image to mind of Klaus's shack outback.

Not exactly appetizing....

//Walt

AstroPax wrote:
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:54:40 +1100, "ant"
wrote:

whoever bought it, would feel angrily ripped off when
they drank it.

That's exactly how I felt, the first time I drank a Fosters.

You'd know better than me, Haven't drunk it in years. It's quite hard to
find here. We stopped drinking it in the 80s.

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Sam Seiber wrote:

Jeff wrote:
It's my understanding that Utah bars and grocery stores may not sell
beer stronger than 3.2 percent alcohol. By that standard, most domestic
swill won't even make the cut. Buttwiper and Coors are both above 4.5
percent.

If use the same unit of measure, weight, Bud & Coors are 4.0 (5.0 by
volume). 3.2 by weight is 4.0 by volume. Don't mix your measures!

Not much difference between 3.2 and 4.0 beer if you ask me.
They're both equally wimpy. You just drink 5 to get the effect of 4.

To get better beer, you need to visit Canada or better yet Australia.
American microbreweries are making great beer nowadays, but the bigs
still don't.

Maybe you enjoy "that crisp, clean, plywood-aged taste of Buttweiser"
but give me a Sierra Nevada any day.

Bill Tuthill wrote:
Sam Seiber wrote:
Jeff wrote:

It's my understanding that Utah bars and grocery stores may not sell
beer stronger than 3.2 percent alcohol. By that standard, most domestic
swill won't even make the cut. Buttwiper and Coors are both above 4.5
percent.

If use the same unit of measure, weight, Bud & Coors are 4.0 (5.0 by
volume). 3.2 by weight is 4.0 by volume. Don't mix your measures!

Not much difference between 3.2 and 4.0 beer if you ask me.
They're both equally wimpy. You just drink 5 to get the effect of 4.

To get better beer, you need to visit Canada or better yet Australia.

Um....Bill....um....you didn't parse Sam's comment. Let me lay it out
for ya:

In the US, the alcoholic content of beer is measured by weight.
In most of the rest of the world, including Canada and Australia, it's
measured by volume.

Since ethanol is less dense than water, 4% by weight is the same
concentration as 5% by volume. Or stated another way, take a bottle of
Bud that's 4% by weight and carry it across the border into Canada and
it "magically" changes into 5% 'cause you measure by volume there.

Get it? No? Then be sure to bring a heavy coat next time you go to
Canada because the temperature can drop by as much as 50 degrees as soon
as you cross the border.

Anyway, the quality of the beer and it's alcohol content are loosely
correlated if they're correlated at all.

//Walt

In article ,
wrote:

Anyway, the quality of the beer and it's alcohol content are loosely
correlated if they're correlated at all.


I'm sorry, but were you drunk when you wrote this?

cheers,
john