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