Magic City Post & ShopBirmingham.com have commissioned a series of three iconic ‘Birmingham’ posters. Each poster focuses on an event or place that helps cast Birmingham in the positive light that it deserves on the national stage. Free the Hops is their next poster partner. They believe we have helped band together the local [...]
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National Homebrew Day
Huntsville Beer reminded us that today was National Homebrew Day. If you’re looking for some group therapy support after listening to the homebrew bill debate from last week that ultimately ended in the defeat of this year’s homebrew legalization efforts, I also recommend checking out Dan Murphy’s piece in the Press-Register. Last week, I committed [...]
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A Thank you to Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch Delivers More Than 360,000 Cans of Water to Assist Tornado and Storm Relief Efforts in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. Let’s take a step back from our legislative issues, and sincerely thank Anheuser-Busch for this generous act of support to the devastated areas of south. Anheuser-Busch has a history of providing drinking water to areas [...]
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More important things than beer
Everyone is searching for words to respond to the devastation that hit Alabama and other states last week. As with everyone else, we are at a loss. Free the Hops is an organization of individuals, and all of us were impacted by the storms to some degree. Many of us are simply shocked by the [...]
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The Alabama brewing industry vs. other southern states
SB192 is about economic development in Alabama. The legal situation here is not conducive to a thriving brewing industry. To show this, I’ve looked at the numbers in Alabama versus the numbers in the southern states surrounding us. It’s also helpful to look at South Carolina – which has a very similar population to Alabama [...]
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Alabama Brewers’ Guild statement on the boycott
The Alabama Brewers’ Guild issued a thorough statement on the Free the Hops boycott this weekend. An excerpt: Small, independent breweries in our state have a steep uphill battle from their moment of inception. We do not enjoy the same privileges in Alabama that breweries in other states enjoy. Many breweries thrive in states such [...]
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We’re not boycotting Great Divide
We’re not intentionally trying to hurt Great Divide or any other craft brewery. I promise. Our targets in the boycott are a group of wholesalers whose primary product is Anheuser-Busch. Some have suggested we restrict our boycott to Anheuser-Busch. However, we haven’t been dealing with Anheuser-Busch directly. We’ve been dealing with their distributors – independent [...]
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Some details
You asked for it. The current Alabama Brewpub Act allows a brewery to have on-premise sales with the following conditions: The brewery has to be in a historic building The brewery has to have a restaurant with seating for 80 The brewery has to be in a county that had a brewery prior to 1918 [...]
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Breaking: Free the Hops boycotts Anheuser-Busch and their distributors in Alabama
The Board of Directors of Free the Hops has voted to ban all products from Anheuser-Busch and their local distributors from Free the Hops events until further notice. This is a direct response to their efforts against our bills. The aims of the Brewery Modernization Act are to provide a friendlier environment for the brewing [...]
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Starting yesterday, we began moderating all comments left on this blog. So if you leave a comment, it may take a short amount of time for it to be approved. We are not moderating comments to prevent criticism. We are moderating to prevent obscenity, extreme profanity, and libelous statements from appearing on our website. We [...]