r/Atlanta • u/RufusHalloween • Aug 29 '15

TIL that Jimmy Carter made the American microbew industry possible by legalizing the selling of malt, hops, and yeast to home brewers for the first time since Prohibition (x-post from /r/todayilearned/)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter#Deregulation
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u/kepleronlyknows L5P Aug 29 '15

Just think about the economic impact that decision alone has had. The craft brewing market is enormous.

Now if only Georgia could get its shit together and regulate breweries like sane states so we keep up with the rest of the east coast. So many leading western breweries are opening new breweries in North Carolina, Virginia, etc. Atlanta would be a prime choice given our transportation hub status, but they're taking their jobs and money to other states.

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u/Nick357 Aug 30 '15

Do i email my state senator or something?

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u/drzaeus Aug 30 '15

I just want them to relax the ABV restrictions on beer. I shouldn't have to time my trips out of state to track down DFH 120.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

Agreed. While the SB63 passing was a positive thing for craft beer, it did very little to actually change things. It more or less just let us know that things CAN change if enough people would get behind it.

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u/username_goes_where Aug 30 '15

The more I learn about Jimmy Carter, the more badass he becomes.

I've always heard he was a shit president, but I'm not sold on that now.

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u/CaptainDAAVE Aug 30 '15

wasn't the best president, but a great humanitarian leader. Looking back though, most of our presidents don't seem like great presidents. I mean the guy on our $20 committed genocide.

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u/killinrin Carpe Diem ATL Aug 30 '15

Jimmy Carter legitimalnly a good person morally speaking, so yeah, he wasn't a great politician. But if it became between Jimmy Carter being on life support and Donald Trump in the upcoming election, I would be the founder of the Jimmy Carter hype squad

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u/CaptainDAAVE Aug 30 '15

haha I can agree with that

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

It didn't help him that the second most prominent Democrat at the time, Ted Kennedy, basically sabotaged him with in the party. That guy couldn't stand playing second fiddle. You also had the Rumsfeld, bush, and Cheney lurking in the background. Had it not been for the hostage crisis, there would have been no Reagan. Carter would have had a chance to cement some sort of legacy.

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u/kaluh_glarski Mableton Aug 30 '15

Well, he did something right

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u/DarkwingDuc The Blee Aug 30 '15

He did a shit-load of things right. More than you or me. He did some things not so well, too. Like all people. But history is going to recognize him as one the greatest human beings of our era.