Homebrew Legalization Progress in Mississippi

I hope for you all they are not going to stall it until it's too late. (In reality that is what happened to the AL bill in the Senate last year.)

No word. I tweeted the house bill sponsor and asked why the bill keeps getting skipped on the agenda.

He wrote back:

@dbaria: @AleStateYall my understanding is that the Gov. asked him to skip

I don't like the sound of that!

T hat doesn't sound good. What is the Gov's record on alcohol?

He signed 5 beer bills last year including the bill to increase beer to 10% ABV.

CGVT said:

I hope for you all they are not going to stall it until it's too late. (In reality that is what happened to the AL bill in the Senate last year.)

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We have 2 weeks...all is good.

alestateyall said:

No word. I tweeted the house bill sponsor and asked why the bill keeps getting skipped on the agenda.

He wrote back:

@dbaria: @AleStateYall my understanding is that the Gov. asked him to skip

I don't like the sound of that!

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"...for now" Spreading bills out a bit

msbrewblog said:

"...for now" Spreading bills out a bit

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Thanks. Lack of information makes people (especially me) come up with conspiracy theories.

I know the legislature has its own way of doing things and I respect that.

I am one of those people who moved here from a state where home brewing was legal to be surprised by this law. It irks me that I lost a personal freedom when I came here to teach at one of Mississippi's universities.

I want my freedom back.

Some bills need to go to the governor at a modest pace. All is good though, we have 2 whole weeks before the next deadline.

Follow RaiseYourPints on the Twitters for updates

From the Raise Your Pints twitter feed:

"@raiseyourpints: If vote does not happen today, we've been assured it would tomorrow"

Fingers crossed! I will be watching in anticipation.

I guess we will be on for tomorrow. Skipped today.

Dammit! Let's get this done already! LOL!

Oops I just offended a bunch of voters in Mississippi...

From Raise Your Pints:

"@RaiseYourPints: Vote skipped today, we're told tomorrow for sure"

The Mississippi House convenes at 10am today. @RaiseYourPints promises they will take up our bill today.

Watch the action live here:
mms://av.ls.ms.gov/house

Good Luck!

Victory!!! Thank you House of Representatives!

I'm ready to brew my first Legal batch in July now.

Congratulations guys. Now if only we had sane legislators.

The bill passed the house 70-36! On to the governor.

The bill mirrors federal law. Up to 200 gallons per year. Plus we have the right to take beer to contests!

Congrats!

I think I'll celebrate by brewing a big IPA this weekend.

Congrats!!

49 down. One to go...

Congrats!

alestateyall said:

The bill passed the house 70-36! On to the governor.

The bill mirrors federal law. Up to 200 gallons per year. Plus we have the right to take beer to contests!

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Ha. In that sense, Mississippi now has more rights than Kansas, where you can't take your beer outside of the home. I wonder what the 36 people who voted against it were worried about.

Great news. Ive been waiting to brew my first batch. Lol

highgravitybacon said:

Ha. In that sense, Mississippi now has more rights than Kansas, where you can't take your beer outside of the home. I wonder what the 36 people who voted against it were worried about.

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The same thing every politician worries about.... getting re-elected.

Here it the debate from the house floor.

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I'm surprised there wasn't more of a debate. I would have expected the more conservative politicians to grandstand a bit to appease their constituents.

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yeah, my home state beat AL. Way to go MS

5:26? That's rich.

The Bozos in Alabama will spend more time than that telling each other how much they respect each other before they tell them that God told them to vote no.

And then there were 49.

Congrats to our fellow brewers from the great state of Mississippi!

Cheers!

Congrats on the win, now for the signature and it is done

Congrats Mississippi! Now come on Alabama!

Congrats... It was a long hard fought battle.

Now Alabama is next.

I added a new copy of the video. I messed up the audio on the first one. It was out of sync with the video.

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beergolf said:

Congrats... It was a long hard fought battle.

Now Alabama is next.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD3bGEFxGC0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Updated vote count is 73-37.

alestateyall said:

I added a new copy of the video. I messed up the audio on the first one. It was out of sync with the video.

Video Link: http://youtu.be/Q6MhlNwsLpw

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As the man from Prentiss asked, can the hillbillys be able to make moonshine in their kitchen? What a joke. I loved the informed.

MagooBrew said:

As the man from Prentiss asked, can the hillbillys be able to make moonshine in their kitchen? What a joke. I loved the informed.

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That question was a plant. He was making fun.

Congratulations, y'all. I'm from Columbus. My dad and I had been brewing there for the past 4 or 5 years until I moved to Boston. My old man should be happy today!