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* [http://YellowhammerBrewery.com/ Yellowhammer Brewing] in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]
* [http://YellowhammerBrewery.com/ Yellowhammer Brewing] in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]
* [http://bluepantsbrew.com/ Blue Pants Brewery] in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]
* [http://bluepantsbrew.com/ Blue Pants Brewery] in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]
* [http://www.oldblackbear.com/ Old Black Bear Brewing Company] in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]


Formerly active breweries in Alabama:
Formerly active breweries in Alabama:

Revision as of 01:10, 17 February 2012

There are six active breweries in the state of Alabama. For much of the 20th century, and until the law was changed in 2009, beer with an alcohol content greater than 6% (alcohol by volume) was unlawful in the state, primarily due to Prohibition-era laws remaining unrepealed. With the coming into law of the Brewery Modernization Act (2011), many former restrictions on breweries being able to provide a tap room and the most heavily restrictive regulations regarding brewpubs have been reformed. The Legal ABV limit of beer in Alabama is now 13.9%.

Breweries

There are six active breweries in Alabama:

Formerly active breweries in Alabama:

  • Olde Towne Brewing Company in Huntsville, Alabama ceased brewing in 2011.
  • Alabama Brewing Company, operated by Isadore Newman, Arthur Isnard and A. Cammack from 1897 to 1908 (and manufacturing ice until 1917)
  • Barrett's Brewpub and Eatery, 1990's
  • Birmingham Brewery/Philipp Schillinger Brewing Company, operated in Birmingham by Philipp Schillinger and his sons from 1884 to 1908
  • Birmingham Brewing Company, operated by W. I. Rushton from 1889 to 1893
  • Birmingham Brewing Company, operating from 1992 to 1998. Its brands, Vulcan and Red Mountain, continued to be contract-brewed until 2001.
  • Breckenridge Brewery, 1990s
  • Little Star/Mad Monk, late 1990s
  • Magic City Brewery, brew pub operating from 1995 to 2000 in Birmingham
  • Olde Auburn Ale House in Auburn, Alabama was in operation from February 2000 until 2009, when its brewery was contracted out to a company in Atlanta. From that point, the microbrews sold at the Ale House were produced in Atlanta.
  • Port City Brewery, first brewpub in Alabama, 1990s
  • Southside Cellar, operating in the mid-late 1990s
  • Vulcan Breweries, operating in Birmingham in the late 1990s

Beer regulation

The Code of Alabama defines beer as being fermented malt liquor containing between 0.5% Alcohol By Volume (ABV) and 13.9% ABV. [1] Before 2009, beer in Alabama was limited to 6% ABV or less. [2] The only other states with similarly low limits are Mississippi, and West Virginia.

Beer, except draft or keg beer, sold by retailers must be sold or dispensed in bottles, cans or other containers not to exceed one pint or 16 ounces.

While federal law permits Homebrewing, Alabama state law still prohibits it.

Brewpubs

Brewpubs in Alabama must be located in an historic building or site, in a wet county or wet municipality, in which county beer was brewed for public consumption prior to the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1919.

By law, beer brewed by a brewpub cannot be possessed, sold or dispensed except on the premises where it is brewed. Brewpub beer also cannot be packaged or contained in other than barrels from which the beer is to be dispensed.

The brewpub must contain and operate a restaurant with a seating capacity of not less than 80.

Free The Hops

In 2006 and 2007 a grassroots lobbying organization called Free The Hops introduced bills in the state House and Senate, intending to raise the limit on beer to 13.9% ABV. The bill was passed and signed into law in May 2009.

The movement to raise the ABV limit on beer in Alabama followed similar movements in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Those states also had 5% and 6% ABV limits on beer until recently: Georgia raised their ABV limit to 14% in 2004, North Carolina raised to 15% in 2005, and South Carolina raised to 17.5% in 2007.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2009rs/bills/hb373.htm
  2. ^ http://www.legislature.state.al.us/SearchableInstruments/2007RS/Bills/HB631.htm
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