When Governor Pinchot signed the LCB’s existence into law at the end of Prohibition he stated that this agencies purpose was to “make the purchase of alcohol as inconvenient and expensive as possible”.
The PALCB has remained true to the that mission.
When the 21st Amendment was ratified in ‘33, the nation was in the middle of its biggest and worst experiment ever with price controls. There were price control boards run by the National Recovery Administration (also created in ‘33) for almost everything you needed to buy. Pinchot and FDR - two peas in a pod.