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Mississippi Tries to Pop the Cap
Mississippians for Economic and Beverage Advancement (MEBA) have crafted a bill to allow brewers to craft quaffs with as much as 17% alcohol by volume. That’s up from the current 5% ABV limit. B… more »
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Mississippi Tries to Pop the Cap
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beeractivist wrote 4 months ago: Mississippians for Economic and Beverage Advancement (MEBA) have crafted a bill to allow brewers to … more »
Birmingham Boycotts Bud
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beeractivist wrote 5 months ago: Free the Hops, a specialty beer advocacy group in Alabama, announced a boycott of Anheuser-Busch (A- … more »
A Taxing Proposal in Maryland
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beeractivist wrote 5 months ago: Got word from Volker Stewart at the Brewer’s Art in Baltimore about Senate Bill 232 in the sta … more »
Coast Brewing: "Local, Creative, Organic"
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beeractivist wrote 5 months ago: My friend and fellow beer writer Martin Morse Wooster alerted me to an article by Nicole Cendrowski … more »
Free the Hops
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beeractivist wrote 7 months ago: According to the grassroots non-profit Alabamans for Specialty Beer (ASB), Alabama is one of only th … more »
The Organic Hops Controversy
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beeractivist wrote 7 months ago: (This originally appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of American Brewer magazine as my “Brewing a … more »
Molson Coors Merges with SABMiller to form MillerCoors
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beeractivist wrote 9 months ago: Yahoo News just reported that the second and third largest brewers in America, Molson Coors and SABM … more »
Melania & Taborga: Fair Trade, Organic, Chilean Wines
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beeractivist wrote 9 months ago: Last Sunday I sat down with Chris and Carola from C & C Imports in their Ellicott City, MD home … more »
Organic Hops Update
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beeractivist wrote 10 months ago: Should beers labeled USDA Organic be allowed to use non-organic hops? I’ve been trying to answ … more »
Where Is Underage Drinking Legal?
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beeractivist wrote 10 months ago: Besides the US, there are only three countries that prohibit drinking under the age of 21, except fo … more »
Nutrition Labels for Beer
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beeractivist wrote 10 months ago: I met a guy the other night at a Brickskeller beer tasting who works at the Beer Institute. He told … more »
When Is Underage Drinking Legal?
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beeractivist wrote 10 months ago: At the end of my last post I pondered the predicament of having to choose whether or not to illegall … more »
Will the "21" Years Soon Be History?
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beeractivist wrote 10 months ago: I began my usual Sunday morning newspaper ritual, separating the wheat from the chaff. The inserts a … more »
Irish Whiskey at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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beeractivist wrote 1 year ago: This year’s annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival features Northern Ireland, the Mekong Delta, … more »
How to File Comments Opposing the USDA Organic Hops Rule
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beeractivist wrote 1 year ago: I’ve had some readers ask for clarification about how to post comments opposing the USDA … more »
Setback for Organic Beer Drinkers
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beeractivist wrote 1 year ago: (For background posts on this issue, click “organic/GMO” in the categories list to the r … more »
A-B to Brew with Organic Hops
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beeractivist wrote 1 year ago: This just in from the desk of Scott Wilson at the LA Times. He says he received a note from Anheuser … more »
LA Times on Organic Hops Rule Change
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beeractivist wrote 1 year ago: Scott Wilson wrote a piece in the LA Times about the USDA organic rule that officially puts hops on … more »
