What's Brewing Mississippi? Homebrewing Legalized.

TORRANCE, Calif. - March 26, 2013 - PRLog -- On March 19, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed a bill effectively legalizing home brewing throughout the state. Mississippi is now the 49th state to permit home brewing.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed into law a bill allowing home beers, which was at the time not permitted without paying the excise taxes as a holdover from the prohibition of alcoholic beverages (repealed in 1933). This change also exempted home brewers from posting a "penal bond" (currently $1000.00), which economically prevented brewers of small quantities from pursuing their hobby.

The 21st Amendment predominantly leaves regulation of alcohol to the states. Therefore, even though home brewing is federally legal, it is still up to individual states to legalize home brewing in state codes. So let's raise a pint and welcome Mississippi to the club!

There's an estimated 2,200 home brewers in Mississippi who can enjoy brewing without restrictions from the State of Mississippi. Alabama is now the lone State with laws prohibiting home brewing. It's also estimated that more than 1 million Americans brew beer or make wine at home at least once a year.

Box of Brew will help those home brewers in Mississippi learn this 7,000-year-old tradition of brewing craft beer.

Box of Brew is an online monthly subscription (www.boxofbrew.com) for small batch home brewing. With Box of Brew, you pick the beer you want to brew, and for a ten and five ones (that’s 15 bucks), Box of Brew will send its members a heavenly beer recipe and all the ingredients to your front door. Members will receive a new kit featuring a new recipe every month and the beer won't stop flowing for as long as you want, unlike that dreaded last call.

Mississippi, Nothing Taste Better Than Your Own Brew.