Alabama...**sigh**

[petie]

The difference is intent. There needs to be intent to brew for it to be illegal.

This sounds like a cop talking. Am I right.

 

[TyTanium]

...If I lived in Alabama, screw the state, I'd brew anyway and just call it civil disobedience on my part. Prohibition is just dumb whether it's for Marijuana or Alcohol. The only thing it does is criminalize otherwise good people over an arbitrary law that's in place because of other more evil factors....

Spoken like a true Seattlite.

This sounds like a cop talking. Am I right.

No. Just one who tries to understand the laws. There's often more to it with cases like this, so I'm hesitant to rush to judgment.

 

[MalFet]

This sounds like a cop talking. Am I right.

I'm not sure what your point is here. Intent is a basic category of the law. TyTanium might sound like a cop, or he might sound like someone who's smart enough to know what will and won't get him arrested.

Your semantics may seem like compelling arguments to you, but they won't protect you from legal prosecution. That's what's relevant to anyone living in Alabama.

 

[CGVT]

If I lived in Alabama, screw the state, I'd brew anyway and just call it civil disobedience on my part.

From what I hear, there are people doing just that...to a degree. You can call it civil disobedience, just don't call it too loud or you will end up in trouble with the law and the only thing that you will be brewing is prison hooch.

If I were to brew in Alabama, I would rather go about my business quietly and work to change the laws, but I guess maybe I'm just too old to be be so rebellious...

 

[Whattawort]

From what I hear, there are people doing just that...to a degree. You can call it civil disobedience, just don't call it too loud or you will end up in trouble with the law and the only thing that you will be brewing is prison hooch.

If I were to brew in Alabama, I would rather go about my business quietly and work to change the laws, but I guess maybe I'm just too old to be be so rebellious...

You dare to use logic and sound reasoning in this state?? Suppose the next thing you're gonna tell me is that you have indoor plumbing, shoes, and electricity! Uppity is what you is.

 

[gimmejava]

No one brews here. No one. Got it bub?

I know I don't.

 

[Firebat138]

So are we banning people from registering to this site that live in AL. Such a weird event to happen to one store and not another

 

[Whattawort]

I know I don't.

Good man. If you did, I would feel that it's my civil responsibility to confiscate and dispose of your beer for you.

 

[Whattawort]

So are we banning people from registering to this site that live in AL. Such a weird event to happen to one store and not another

So, do those of us who are already here get to be grandfathered in? The correct answer is yes by the way.

 

[Homercidal]

So are we banning people from registering to this site that live in AL. Such a weird event to happen to one store and not another

I'm pretty sure everyone from Alabama who visits this site are only here for the awesome smoking meat and soapmaking threads.

 

[Whattawort]

I'm pretty sure everyone from Alabama who visits this site are only here for the awesome smoking meat and soapmaking threads.

Duh. Who gives a hoot about beer? We have white lightening!

 

[BlackRock]

I'm definitely not saying I'd be vocal about brewing beer if that's where I lived. Just saying that's how I'd feel about it. I'd probably never actually tell anyone I knew that I brewed and would just quietly drink my beer and telling friends that an out of state buddy brewed up this sub 6% brew.

 

[MVKTR2]

So are we banning people from registering to this site that live in AL. Such a weird event to happen to one store and not another

As a Mississippian I fully support the banning of all Alabamians from HBT! Translation: pot meet kettle. :fro:

Oddly enough there aren't any laws that I'm aware of in MS making brewing equipment illegal. However alcohol manufacturing without a license, etc. are plainly outlined in the MS code.

As for this happening to one store and not another, that's just the inefficiency of the state and it's enforcement apparatus. Besides we're all felons anyway, just read the law ... what's that? Oh it would take 3 lifetimes reading at a college level to read all the current US laws and the job would never be completed going on infinitum. Sort of sad, sort of amusing, wholly disgusting.