The good news: You can now buy a beer at the Social Axe Throwing venue in Salt Lake City, thanks to a Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control decision on Tuesday, March 27.

The bad news: The original Social Axe Throwing location in Ogden will likely remain dry.

Mark Floyd’s son, co-owner Brayden Floyd, said they originally tried to get a beer license for the Ogden site in late July or August of last year, but “it didn’t get past the front desk” at the DABC.

“They told us, ‘You’re too close to the temple,'" Brayden Floyd said.

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“Unfortunately, it cannot happen in Ogden,” Mark Floyd said. “We’d have to be 600 feet from the temple, and currently we are at 585 feet.”