North Salt Lake • The state agency charged with distributing and selling alcohol in Utah has disposed of thousands of gallons of drinkable beer worth almost $18,000.
Early Friday, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control transported 275 cases of beer-filled bottles and cans from its Salt Lake City warehouse to Wasatch Resource Recovery in North Salt Lake. The products, DABC officials say, could no longer be sold in state-run liquor stores because of new law that took effect in November.
Once the DABC shipment arrived, crews at the Davis County facility put the aluminum containers through a depackaging process, sending the liquid ales and lagers into an aerobic digester — where they will mix with other food waste — and eventually be turned into natural gas and fertilizers.