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Twice, I've hosted parties or gatherings for non -brewers where we brewed a special batch together, around a theme or special occassion. This seems like a good opportunity to put out the invitation again. I think its cool that there is a White House beer and it seems to have drawn the attention of non brewers.

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Pappers_

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Just had a random thought - in less than a person 's lifetime, we've gone from Prohibition to a White House making handmade beer. That is just remarkable!

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TimpanogosSlim

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Historians claim that a majority of the congressmen who voted for the prohibition amendment were under the impression that it only restricted the sale and manufacture of hard liquors and would leave beer and wine out of it.

It was the Volstead Act which condemned the manufacture and sale of beer and wine. For some reason home winemaking was never criminalized.

I recommend the PBS miniseries on the subject. It turns out that the temperance movement wasn't in favor of prohibition, and both the temperance and prohibition movements were more concerned about all the rape and abuse of married women than about the booze itself. It was a different time. Hardly anybody with a Y chromosome could be convinced that such a thing as rape is possible within the bonds of marriage, for example. In the working class there was a lot of rampant drunkenness and associated mayhem when the drunks finally got home after drinking all night, and there was no law providing consequences for said mayhem.

That, and the majority of beer bars were owned and operated by breweries, with the effect that there were neighborhoods that were nothing but saloons.

In short, prohibition was the wrong solution to a number of very real problems they had at the time.

dnl

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Hello,

I had an idea:
Could the WH work with kit seller to add reusable bottle labels to their WH beer kits that are similar to the official label or add another tangible item such as a glass. The 'deluxe' kit premium could be used to support a nonpartisan charity like childhood hunger, MS or cancer research, or something of the like. If you didn't want the extra or want to make your own version go for it, but I kind of like the idea of making a batch, adding some labels, and supporting a good cause.

djfake

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And today.

alestateyall

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Do you mean childhood hunger, MS as in Mississippi, or cancer research?

I vote for Mississippi. We need the money to help fight for home brew legalization.

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Yooper

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Let me know what time to be there, and what to bring....................

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McGarnigle

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I'd recommend that anyone read Daniel Okrent's "Last Call" for the full story (the PBS doc was partly based on it). So much of it had to do with how to manage political coalitions. The 'drys' included everything from progressive urban socialist reformers to the KKK (concerned about drunken blacks and immigrants). It was a tightly defined single issue cause that attracted strange bedfellows.

On the other side, the breweries and distilleries were throwing each other under the bus. The breweries were OK with making booze illegal, just not beer.

chessking

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And orange slices for all the kiddies.

jeffdill

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Did anyone convert these to a full boil extract recipe? I've never done that, I'm not sure how the hop additions change.