I've visited Utah a few times and, as has been mentioned, it's a beautiful place. And really, the liquor laws weren't as pervasive as I'd feared. Another quirky one I found was that when you buy "heavy beer" in a liquor store, none of it is refrigerated. It's all at room temp, presumably so you won't consume it immediately. Also, they priced everything by the bottle, not by the 6 pack. You could buy a 6 pack of beer, but they charged you for 6 individual bottles. Makes building your own custom sixer pretty easy, actually.
Wyoming and North Dakota are both "liquor store states", in that you can only get >4% beer at a liquor store. Meanwhile, in South Dakota, you can buy hard liquor (and any manner of beer) at Walmart. But, until recently, you couldn't buy any alcohol on Memorial Day (or was it Labor Day...or both....maybe the 4th of July too).
In Montana, breweries that produce over 10,000 bbl of beer per year can't sell beer for on-site consumption. So, for example, if you visit Big Sky Brewing in Missoula you can't buy a pint, but you can get up to 4 free 4 ounce samples and buy some cans or bottles or growlers to go. Smaller breweries can sell beer, but only 48 oz per person per day (how strictly the breweries adhere to this is hit or miss).
Amazing how the liquor laws differ from state to state with little rhyme or reason.