SB153, the homebrewing legalisation bill, has passed the Alabama Senate!
This being politics, there was an amendment made to the bill which helped it to pass. This amendment restricts the transportation of homebrew to no more than 20gallons at a time, whether to clubs, competitions, or whatever, but this does not affect the quantity that can [...]
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Homebrewing legalisation passes Senate!
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Another beer bill
Although Free the Hops is focused squarely on the Brewery Modernization Act, you should also know that there is another bill that would legalize the homebrewing of beer, mead, cider, and wine. SB153 was introduced by Senator Larry Dixon yesterday. Free the Hops openly supports the repeal of the current ban on homebrewing and will [...]
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The hops are not yet free
The hops are a lot freer with the signing of the Gourmet Beer Bill, but there are still plenty of other issues that Free the Hops need to address. Being a grassroots group, we feel it is only appropriate that everyone who helped to get the ABV law reformed should have input on what FTH [...]
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Contact your senator today!
Unfortunately, the Senate is up to its old tricks again this year. Once again, they are regularly deadlocking themselves in filibusters and voting on little to no legislation. We are in the final weeks of the legislative session, and our bill is still sitting there waiting for them to get some work done. All they [...]
The Race To Finish Last
When I started Free The Hops back in the fall of 2004, there were 5 states that prohibited all sale of beers over 6% ABV: Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. And only a few months before, there had been 6, as Georgia had just recently raised their 6% limit.
Then in 2005 [...]
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Setting the Record Straight. Again.
Somewhat out of the blue, we’ve just had a rash of media coverage–even though things are pretty quiet for us with the next legislative session not starting until February. Apparently a story that was originally published in the Anniston Star got picked up by the Associated Press, which led to other stories in some [...]
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