Interesting article in Wired this month about resurrecting 45 million year old yeast and pitching it into a pale ale. So folks, let that be a lesson to you when you rack to your secondary. Trub is GOLD!
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Ok, so I modified the famous line from Neil Armstrong when he became the first man to walk on the moon on July 19, 1969. With the passage of legislative measure HB373, our limit has been raised from 6.0 percent 13.9 percent. We can drink foreign and microbrew beer now (legally)!
Overall this might not [...]
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From Maureen Ogle’s First Draft Follies:
Part I | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Homemade beer inspired “good vibrations” and a “pleasant high.” Unlike the rest of the “plastic, mass-produced shit” of modern America, homebrew represented “an exercise of craft” and empowered the “politically oriented” to retaliate against [...]
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The Alabama legislature convened this week for its 2009 session. This is a good time to summarize the history of Alabama homebrewing legalization efforts.
The bill linked here was introduced in the 1997 and 1998 Alabama legislatures. In 1997, the bill was introduced in the Ala. House by Rep. Fuller. The bill was [...]
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Thanks to the Cato Institute for hosting this seminar and fora.tv for making it available. The topics are very relevant to brewers today… especially today. The following 3 clips are highlights. You can see the seminar in its entirety here (approx 2 hours).
Cato Institute
Washington, DC
Dec 5th, 2008
On December 5, 1933, the 21st [...]
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Ludwig von Mises Institute economist Mark Thornton’s Economics of Prohibition is on sale for only $10. Be sure to tell them John Little sent you if there’s a place for a note when ordering. Dr. Thornton has been a big help to the Alabama homebrewing community.
You can also see a short video interview [...]
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30 years ago today, the following tax exemption was enacted (1978 P.L. 95-458). The exemption is now codified in section 2053 of Title 26 of the United States Code. Title 26 is the Internal Revenue Code.
TITLE 26. INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
SUBTITLE E. ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND CERTAIN OTHER EXCISE TAXES
CHAPTER 51. DISTILLED SPIRITS, WINES, AND [...]
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Please join me on Tuesday, January 22 to taste some Auburn Brew Club homebrewed beer and discuss the need to change our legal and political environment with respect to many civil liberties, including our ability to engage in brewing beer for personal use.
We’ll have with us Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises [...]
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