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No tasting this week. Huge news for beer lovers! http://www.freethehops.org
Free The Hops launches boycott in response to Budweiser distributor’s opposition to pro-craft beer legislation. Free The Hops is calling for a consumer boycott of Anheuser-Busch products sold in the Birmingham/Jefferson County area.The group’s president, Stuart Carter, says his group is calling for the boycott because of the anti-craft beer lobbying efforts of Birmingham Budweiser and the distributor’s vice president, Pat Lynch.Lynch, Carter says, has been a major opponent of state legislation which could legalize gourmet, typically higher-strength beer in Alabama. Free the Hops has been working for three years to change current Alabama law that limits beer to no more the 6% alcohol by volume (ABV). This ABV ceiling means the majority of America’s finest craft beers, and many of the world’s best imported beers, cannot be sold in the state.The Free the Hops organization is seeking to raise the state’s ABV limit for beer to 14.9%.Lynch’s lobbying efforts against the higher ABV limit led to the Free the Hops supported legislation (HB-195) failing last year, Carter says.Free the Hops has called for a boycott of all Budweiser products sold in the Jefferson County/Birmingham area. http://www.freethehops.org/
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Free The Hops launches boycott in response to Budweiser distributor’s opposition to pro-craft beer legislation. Free The Hops is calling for a consumer boycott of Anheuser-Busch products sold in the Birmingham/Jefferson County area.The group’s president, Stuart Carter, says his group is calling for the boycott because of the anti-craft beer lobbying efforts of Birmingham Budweiser and the distributor’s vice president, Pat Lynch.Lynch, Carter says, has been a major opponent of state legislation which could legalize gourmet, typically higher-strength beer in Alabama. Free the Hops has been working for three years to change current Alabama law that limits beer to no more the 6% alcohol by volume (ABV). This ABV ceiling means the majority of America’s finest craft beers, and many of the world’s best imported beers, cannot be sold in the state.The Free the Hops organization is seeking to raise the state’s ABV limit for beer to 14.9%.Lynch’s lobbying efforts against the higher ABV limit led to the Free the Hops supported legislation (HB-195) failing last year, Carter says.Free the Hops has called for a boycott of all Budweiser products sold in the Jefferson County/Birmingham area. http://www.freethehops.org/
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