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03.26.2009 2:44 pm
By Jeremiah McWilliams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Plenty of Utah homebrewers - as many as 7,000 - ignored state prohibitions in recent years in order to ply their hobby. But now, they’ll be able to make legal brew.
Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. has signed a bill that legalizes homebrewing in Utah — the first state-level legalization in a decade. Utah It is the 46th state to legalize homebrewing, 31 years after the federal government made homebrewing legal on a national level. Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Oklahoma still prohibit homebrewing. The American Homebrewers Association estimates that there are approximately 750,000 homebrewers in the U.S.
“Home-brewing is a healthy and vibrant hobby in Utah,” bill sponsor Rep. Christine A. Johnson. She cited an “outpouring of support” for the legislation in the Utah Legislature.
Jennifer Talley, brewmaster for Squatters Pub Brewery/Salt Lake Brewing Co. in Salt Lake City, says the new law will allow the relationship between professional and amateur brewers to grow.
“Homebrewing is truly an art and most professional brewers I know were once homebrewing in their kitchen,” Talley said in press release distributed by the Brewers Association, a Colorado-based trade group. “Utah beer enthusiast will now have the freedom to express their deepest beer desires through perfecting the craft of homebrewing in their own kitchens,” Talley added.
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/la...ebrewing-did-prohibition-stop-anybody-anyway/
By Jeremiah McWilliams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Plenty of Utah homebrewers - as many as 7,000 - ignored state prohibitions in recent years in order to ply their hobby. But now, they’ll be able to make legal brew.
Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. has signed a bill that legalizes homebrewing in Utah — the first state-level legalization in a decade. Utah It is the 46th state to legalize homebrewing, 31 years after the federal government made homebrewing legal on a national level. Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Oklahoma still prohibit homebrewing. The American Homebrewers Association estimates that there are approximately 750,000 homebrewers in the U.S.
“Home-brewing is a healthy and vibrant hobby in Utah,” bill sponsor Rep. Christine A. Johnson. She cited an “outpouring of support” for the legislation in the Utah Legislature.
Jennifer Talley, brewmaster for Squatters Pub Brewery/Salt Lake Brewing Co. in Salt Lake City, says the new law will allow the relationship between professional and amateur brewers to grow.
“Homebrewing is truly an art and most professional brewers I know were once homebrewing in their kitchen,” Talley said in press release distributed by the Brewers Association, a Colorado-based trade group. “Utah beer enthusiast will now have the freedom to express their deepest beer desires through perfecting the craft of homebrewing in their own kitchens,” Talley added.
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/la...ebrewing-did-prohibition-stop-anybody-anyway/
