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Bar fight breaks out as a dozen businesses boycott Red Rock over fight for stronger beer in Utah

For more than two weeks, owners of at least a dozen Utah bars have been staging a beer boycott — refusing to sell products made by Salt Lake City’s Red Rock Brewing Co.

This craft beer brawl stems from comments made during a March 6 legislative hearing on SB132 — the proposal that would allow higher-alcohol beer in grocery and convenience stores.

Red Rock founder Bob Jensen — who was one of several brewery owners opposing the measure — told a Utah House committee that increasing the state alcohol limit on beer from 3.2 percent by weight to a then-proposed 4.