Hobby homebrew code#
(a) Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary, a person who has not been convicted of a felony in Alabama or any other state or federal jurisdiction, and who is not prohibited by §28-1-5, Code of Alabama 1975, from purchasing, consuming, possessing, or transporting alcoholic beverages due to age may produce at his or her legal residence beer, mead, cider, and table wine, as those terms are defined in §28-3-1, Code of Alabama 1975, for personal use, in the amounts specified in this act, without payment of taxes or fees and without obtaining a license. The laws against possession, transportation or delivery of prohibited liquors shall not apply to the possession of wine or cordial made from grapes or other fruit when the grapes or other fruit are grown by the person making the same for his own domestic use upon his own premises in this state and when such person keeps such wine or cordial for his own domestic use on his own premises in any quantity not exceeding five gallons for one family in 12 months. **Production per year is generally governed by the United States government at 100 gallons per adult per year, or up to 200 gallons per year if their are 2 adults of drinking age living in the residence. In a society where beer and spirits have become synonymous with social gatherings and celebrations of all kinds – It’s a shame that homebrewers are being isolated from competitions, tastings and the social interaction and community that these types of events encourage. These types of overtly conservative laws make it difficult, if not impossible for any meaningful homebrewering community to survive in states where such archaic laws still exist.
With more conservative states prone to adopt strict regulations on the % ABV beer that you are able to produce and even limiting the ability for homebrewers to transport their beer or consume it outside of the residence it was brewed. With each state able to adopt it’s own set of standards, we have been left with a varied landscape of all different levels of regulation and control of the production, transportation and consumption of homebrewed beverages. We’ve come along way…īeer lovers and brewers had to fight for nearly a century to regain their right to brew after prohibition.Įven though Homebrewing was made legal by the United States government in 1979, states still reserved the right to regulate the production of beer & spirits in whatever way they saw fit, leaving the the last state to finally make HomeBrewing legal as recently as July of 2013! Unfortunately, It would take another 46 years for the federal government to finally address this oversight and legalize Americans right to homebrew beer again. You would assume that with prohibition repealed, Americans could once again exercise their right to brew their own beer, right?
Until in 1933, the 21st amendment was established to repeal prohibition. The 18th amendment was enacted in 1919, and made the sale, production & transportation of alcoholic beverages illegal in the United states for 14 years.
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