Dirk McLargeHuge wrote:True, but since brewing is legal on the Federal level, if he wasn't distilling, I'm willing to chip into a legal defense fund.
It doesn't matter if its legal on the federal level. The states were left to make stricter laws if they wanted to. Some states passed laws specifically allowing it, some (like my own Louisiana till recently) didn't do a thing for or against it, and some like Alabama and Mississippi made it illegal. I see there was a bill (Alabama Senate bill SB153) that they tried to get passed this year, but it got stuck in committee. Thankfully, Louisiana just recently put something on the books definitively making it legal to brew here.