Yesterday saw the momentous day of reckoning that we’ve been previewing since March. With the myriad updates to Utah’s liquor laws now in effect for… Read More »Eight new bars approved at June alcohol meeting
As the clock ticks down to the June DABC meeting (sorry it’s DABS now folks) so the interest escalates around who exactly will snaffle up… Read More »Liquor license frenzy approaches – mark your calendars
Well there you have it. Two months into the year and bar licenses are pretty much toast. Want to open a bar in Utah? Come… Read More »Utah bar licenses exhausted until the Summer after DABC meeting
It sounds like the premise of a bad joke: fifteen bars walk into a… but no, this was the reality of January’s DABC meeting. One… Read More »Fifteen bars, one license, welcome to Utah
Get ready for a fraught 2022 folks. Following this months DABC meeting, Ben Winslow confirmed via this story that the Utah legislature seems unmoved by… Read More »Utah liquor license crisis set to worsen according to reports
Welcome back to our monthly roundup of all things perfectly potable. While ordinarily I’d start with a raised eyebrow and nod to the state’s bar… Read More »Restaurant liquor licenses starting to feel the pressure
Lets cut to the chase and dive right into the section of this month’s DABC meeting that everyone wants know about – bar licenses. Continuing… Read More »Fourteen bars battle for just three licenses at DABC meeting
As is increasingly common at DABC meetings, wrangles over Utah’s exceptionally limited inventory of bar licenses dominated proceedings during the August meetup. For those following… Read More »Lack of bar licenses continues to dominate DABC meetups
In his first meeting taking the reigns from former chairman John T. Nielsen, commissioner Thomas Jacobson ran a briskly paced meeting that sped through the… Read More »The latest liquor news you don’t want to miss
An eighteen-year paperwork snafu led to the loss of Bountiful’s only bar at a busy DABC meeting this month. The bar in question, The Fifth,… Read More »Bountiful bar loses license after 18 years, other liquor news