Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Draft Dodgers

For DIY brewers, Prohibition lasted until 1978. But once unleashed, they revolutionized the industry.  www.reason.com/news/show/131411.html

...In places with a somewhat more permissive culture than Middlesboro, Kentucky, a semi-public home-brew movement began to emerge. The Oregon author Fred Eckhardt was spreading the gospel via his influential 1969 book A Treatise on Lager Beers. Charlie Papazian was teaching home-brew classes to aspiring beer makers in Colorado. Clubs with names like the San Andreas Malts were meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area to share tricks of the trade and taste each other’s brews.

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