November 17, 2008
Dear Utah AHA and BA Members:
Thank you to everyone who supported our efforts earlier this year to legalize homebrewing in the state of Utah. The homebrewing bill is again being submitted to the Utah legislature for the 2009 session.
Please help us in getting this bill passed into law.
On
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, the bill “Exemption For Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturing License”, sponsored by Representative Christine Johnson, is scheduled for a hearing before the Business and Labor Interim Committee. The Committee meeting starts at
2:15 PM in room W025 of the House Building at the Utah State Capital Complex in Salt Lake City. I encourage you to attend this meeting and show your support for the legalization of homebrewing.
Homebrewing is a long-standing part of American tradition dating back to the early-colonial period. Many of our nation’s founders, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were homebrewers.
The Federal Government legalized homebrewing thirty years ago in 1978 for the first time since prohibition made it illegal in 1919. Homebrewing is now legal in 45 states. Utah residents should have the right to legally brew beer/mead/wine at home as do the vast majority of Americans.
See this link for more information about the hearing and the bill.
Thank you for your support of homebrewers and and this bill. Please forward this message on to any other Utah residents that you feel would be interested in supporting this bill.
Sincerely,
Gary Glass
Director
American Homebrewers Association
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