Posted on February 27th, 2008 by John Little
Alabama is 1 of only 5 (soon to be 4) states where homebrewing is illegal. The other states are Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah.
Now it seems Utah (the ultra conservative anti-alcohol world capital of Mormonism) is on the verge of legalizing homebrewing. Shouldn’t Alabama be able to make some progress on this issue?
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by John Little
In this year’s Alabama legislative session, there have been 5 beer and wine related bills sent to the Senate Committee on Tourism and Marketing. On February 21st, 3 of the 5 were considered, voted out of committee and sent to the Senate floor. The only 2 bills not considered were a keg registration [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by John Little
SYNOPSIS: This bill would provide for the production of homebrewing of beer, mead, cider, and wine for personal use.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
To provide for the production of homebrewing of beer, mead, cider, and wine for personal use.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary, [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by John Little
This is from Gary Glass of the American Homebrewers Association. Everyone please read, and feel free to use these points in your communications with legislators. If you’re only looking at the homepage and you see the “read more” link below, click the link to see all the talking points.
Talking Points on Legalizing Homebrewing
Homebrewing has [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by John Little
After years in the making, we finally have a bill in the Alabama Senate that would legalize homebrewing in Alabama, permit tastings to be held, and permit competition organizers to charge a fee for competition entries…. all without taxation or licensure requirements.
There are also bills in the House and Senate which would allow beer [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2008 by John Little
We only managed to get a few pictures of our small gathering to taste some homebrew while discussing legal/political issues surrounding our ability to homebrew and other civil liberties.
You can help us by supporting our effort to convince Ted Little and others to sponsor our Proposed Homebrewing Legalization Bill by getting your craft beer loving [...]
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