

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A glass recycler crushes beer bottles as the DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately-owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Operators Jayson Dlugas, left, and Braeden Adamson drop beer bottles into a glass recycler as the DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Operator Braeden Adamson maneuvers a fork lift as the DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately-owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Operator Braeden Adamson maneuvers a fork lift as the DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately-owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Operator Braeden Adamson opens up the back side of a truck as the DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately-owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Operator Jayson Dlugas unpackages product as the DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately-owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Operators Braeden Adamson, left, and Jayson Dlugas drop beer bottles into a glass recycler as the DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately-owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Operator Dominic Padilla flattens boxes as the DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately-owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Operator Jayson Dlugas pushes down a pile of glass being crushed as the DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately-owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Beer flows into a floor drain from a glass recycler as DABC delivers 275 cases of beer on three pallets to the new food digester in North Salt Lake on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The state can no longer sell the beer — all between 4% and 5% ABV — because it can't compete with privately-owned grocery and convenience stores which started selling the higher alcohol brews on Nov. 1.