High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The alcohol laws of Kentucky, which govern the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in that state, lead to a confusing patchwork of counties that are dry, prohibiting all sale of alcoholic beverages; wet, permitting full retail sales under state license; and "moist", occupying a middle ground between the two. The confusion is not restricted to a location`s wet/dry status—for example, a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court wrote in 1985 that the state`s alcohol laws were a "maze of obscure statutory language" and "confusing at best", and the general counsel of the Kentucky Office of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) noted in 2012, "That`s still the case." This led Kentucky governor Steve Beshear to appoint a task force in summer 2012 to attempt to streamline the state`s alcohol laws.