For all the beer lovers out there, please contact Govenor Riley in support of this legislation for the state of Alabama. Some of you may remember the Pop the Cap in 05 that allowed this same thing in NC.

Basiscally it increases the Alocohol by volume to be raised from 6% to

The info is below:

http://freethehops.org

check out the blog for Govenor Riley's contact information.


http://www.freethehops.org/blog/

5/18/2009 3:12:38 PM

Is there even a market for high gravity beer in Alabama?

I'd think that the residents of Alabama would scoff at paying more than $13 per case of beer.

5/18/2009 3:15:31 PM

Ever been to a Bama football game? There is big money down there.

5/18/2009 3:28:49 PM

i think he was implying that bama residents are mostly hicks and would prefer a case of PBR over a 6 pack of hefeweizen [/gross generalization not to be taken seriously]


[Edited on May 18, 2009 at 3:35 PM. Reason : .]

5/18/2009 3:34:42 PM

There are a good amount of said hicks here but the number of young engineers in the area is slowly increasing.

5/18/2009 3:43:19 PM

this:

[/gross generalization not to be taken seriously]

5/18/2009 4:16:10 PM

^I know, I was just saying. Don't worry, I have absolutely no loyalty to this state, even if you weren't just messing around I wouldn't care. I just work here.

5/18/2009 4:49:17 PM

^ditto, I just work here too and would like to not drive to pensacola to get a good belgian beer from time to time!

5/18/2009 5:37:33 PM

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"There are a good amount of said hicks here but the number of young engineers in the area is slowly increasing."

no shit, in the muscle shoals/corinth/jackson area, of all three states, your choice is bud light and miller lite in the bars

5/18/2009 6:14:39 PM

How about some legislation down here to repeal blue laws? i miss not being able to buy alcohol on sunday :-(

5/18/2009 8:36:00 PM

not sure which 'here' you are refering to, but you can buy beer in AL after 1200pm on sundays...

5/20/2009 3:03:47 PM

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"Is there even a market for high gravity beer in Alabama?"

This is a stupid question. Obviously there is a market for high gravity beer if a bunch of Alabamians created an organization to lobby for a change in the laws and successfully accomplished it. Good for them, most craft breweries wouldn't have even bothered distributing to Alabama beforehand because a good amount of their beers would have been illegal. This is a pretty funny audio clip of an Alabama State Senator talking about this legislation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZoTJzh13n8&feature=related

5/20/2009 4:33:20 PM

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"Is there even a market for high gravity beer in Alabama? "

If there is market for it in SC, then there is a market for it anywhere.

5/20/2009 6:11:24 PM

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"Is there even a market for high gravity beer in Alabama?"

This is a stupid question. Even though I realize you were commenting about the people of alabama, and not the justification for the current law: In the context of this thread, such a question at least implies that adequate consumer demand must necessarily exist in order to consider removing an unjust ban placed on retailers. Retailers should be able sell whatever [otherwise legal] beer they wish, regardless of whether or not there's a market for it....[/serious reaction to gross generalization not to be taken seriously]

5/21/2009 8:50:41 AM

the last response was unnecessarily verbose

5/23/2009 5:50:12 PM