Help Us Free The Hops

Free The Hops | Alabamians For Specialty Beer (FTH) is a grassroots, non-profit organization whose mission is to help bring the highest quality beers in the world to Alabama. These beers are commonly referred to as craft beers due to the skill and artistry required to brew them, but they are also appropriately classified as specialty or gourmet.

Wait, were you thinking the hops were now completely free? Think again. You probably already know that in pursuit of its mission, FTH passed The Gourmet Beer Bill in 2009. This bill changed the allowable alcohol by volume (ABV) in beer from 6% to 13.9%, allowing hundreds of world class beers into the state. Since then, the shelves of Alabama's bars, restaurants, and retail stores have added scores of new beers and the variety available to consumers has exploded.

Beer Birmingham posters

Magic City Post & ShopBirmingham have commissioned a series of three, limited-edition, 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 the next poster partner. Magic City Post & ShopBirmingham.com believe we have helped band together the local craft brewing community, and many laws were changed as a result of our efforts. Free the Hops will receive 20% of the purchase price of each poster to be used for the organization's general fund, which provides the local craft brewing community with events, political support, and educational information. The rest of the funds go to pay the artists, printing the poster, and what's left over will help market our local independent businesses and their products to people all over the country on ShopBirmingham.com.

This is a limited edition 20x16" four color silkscreen poster. Each of the 100 prints will be signed and numbered. For more specific details about the materials, design and artists, see our recent blog post.