On Saturday, November 14th from 6pm – 10pm at Sloss Furnaces, Free The Hops will host a unique event to benefit the Autism Society of Alabama.
Six local restaurants will be featuring a variety of fine foods and we will be expertly pairing those dishes with great craft beer. Much to the surprise of many [...]
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Brews For Clues
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Lots of Exciting New Beers!
Things settled down for a while after an initial explosion of new beers that arrived within a month or so of the ABV bill getting signed into law. I think we saw close to 100 new products over about a six week period. That was almost exclusively the result of wholesalers bringing in previously forbidden [...]
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My beer dinner
Joining Danner’s bandwagon, I am conducting a special beer dinner at the J Clyde on Saturday 25th July at 6pm. 5 courses, 5 gourmet beers.
There’s a couple of wrinkles to be sorted out yet, but I wanted to get the information out there so that people who are interested could email info “at” jclyde.com [...]
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Good People Beer At Home
Would you like to share a few pints of Birmingham’s local Good People Brewing Co.’s beer at home with friends? Perhaps some of the new Snake Handler Double IPA or Fatso Imperial Stout?
An unusual opportunity for doing just that is on the horizon.
You may not be familiar with the term “growler” as beer sales in [...]
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One Small Step For Hops
We passed the Senate Tourism committee today on a unanimous vote. There was even a nice write-up by Phillip Rawls on the AP wire. While certainly welcome news, it was not at all unexpected; we passed the same committee last year. We never expected opposition in committee, and (cross your fingers while [...]
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Hostage
Once again, the Senate is being held hostage by one Senator who is not getting his way. That sure didn’t take long, did it? This is essentially what happened last year, only now it’s a different Senator throwing a tantrum over a different bill.
You can hardly blame Phil Poole. He didn’t design [...]
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The Gourmet Beer Bills 2009
We now have bills in front of the legislature.
The House Gourmet Beer Bill is HB373, sponsored by Representative Thomas Jackson, who has been our bill sponsor in the House on each occasion.
The Senate Gourmet Beer Bill is SB132, now sponsored by Senator Singleton as our former Senate sponsor, Senator Parker Griffith, was elected to the [...]
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Cross Your Fingers
As you’re hopefully already aware, today begins the 2009 Session of the Alabama Legislature. We have a part-time legislature that only works a few months each year, so our window to get bills passed is fairly small.
As always, I am hopeful. We have made progress every year since we began working on the [...]
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Repeal day
Today, the 5th of December, is the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The 21st Amendment repealed the dismal failure that was Prohibition.
While this is a cause for celebration, there are still three states in the USA that are dealing with the consequences of Prohibition [...]
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Why does Free the Hops need volunteers?
I had an example of that today. Free the Hops had a presence at ‘Uncorked on the Green’ at Ross Bridge. The event as a whole was projected to draw up to 3000 people to hear about wine, beer and food while being entertained with live music.
The beer tents were staffed by Free the [...]
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