Most of you know by now that we the Alabama House didn’t make it to the second Special Order Calendar, and thus the Brewery Modernization Act never came up for a vote. Since the legislative session is now over, we’re dead this year. It came a long way for its first year, but in the end we just ran out of time for our final vote.
The Brewery Modernization Act is a no-nonsense bill that would have created jobs and made Alabama more competitive in a growing industry, all at no cost to the public purse. It’s disappointing that our legislators in Montgomery couldn’t even get to it, especially in the current economic climate.
Free the Hops will continue in the struggle. It takes time and is often frustrating, but we’ve already shown that we can bring common sense to Alabama’s beer laws.
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Corrected the post. It originally looked like we weren’t on the second SOC when in fact they just never got to the second SOC.
Thanks for all your hard work this year, FTH. We’ll get ‘em next year!
these are the morons – amongst others – Alabamians need to target: http://www.alcap.com .
It is these fear mongers who use religion to control other people. And while I have no qualms with allowing people to worship as they feel inclined, how about a little quid pro quo.
We will continue to support Alabama in it’s effort towards enlightening one Baptist at a time.