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The End of Homebrewing
Beer (& More) In Food ^ | 6-23-07 | Bob Skilnik

Posted on 06/24/2007 10:00:42 AM PDT by toddlintown

Interesting that almost every homebrewer can tell you when homebrewing was once again legalized. Through the efforts of Senator Alan Cranston from California, President Jimmy Carter signed a bill in 1978 that brought legal status to homebrewing in 1979, most homebrewers are unaware of the particulars that ended homebrewing during Prohibition.

In actuality, however, it was not homebrewing per se that was criminalized, it was the way that malt syrup (extract) could be labeled and advertised that was altered…

(Excerpt) Read more at beerinfood.wordpress.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Food; History
KEYWORDS: beer; firstamendment; freespeech; homebrew; malt; prohibition
Always wondered why I could buy malt extract in the early 1970s without a problem.
1 posted on 06/24/2007 10:00:43 AM PDT by toddlintown
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To: toddlintown
Almost $5 for a 32 oz. can that could make a five gallon batch.

I used one of those water bottles that are turned upside down on a cooler.

2 posted on 06/24/2007 11:16:12 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: knarf

“I used one of those water bottles that are turned upside down on a cooler.”

Called a “carboy.”


3 posted on 06/24/2007 11:22:20 AM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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Drinking linked to poor decisions
The Daily Iowan | 6/21/2007 | Stephen Schmidt
Posted on 06/21/2007 4:27:05 PM EDT by Mike Bates
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1854202/posts


4 posted on 06/24/2007 8:58:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 23, 2007.)
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To: rzeznikj at stout; GOP_Raider; Rodney King; Tainan; Chasaway; SquirrelKing; dynachrome; ...

Beer Ping!

A low to medium ping list aimed at all of us who, well, love our beer…

FReepmail rzeznikj at stout or GOP_Raider to be added or struck from the list…

5 posted on 06/24/2007 9:01:00 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (FReepmail me to join the FR Idaho Ping List.)
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