Back Forty Beer Company - Brewery Tour in Gadseden, Alabama. Part of the Craft Brewery Tour
Jason Wilson provides a tour of Back Forty Beer Company, located in Gadsden, Alabama, to a tour. The brewery is part of Alabama's Craft Beer Tour.
Back Forty Beer Company brews Cart Barn Beer - The Official Beer of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
Meet the Makers: Jason Wilson, Back Forty Beer Co. (SPONSORED)
See how Jason Wilson of Back Forty Beer Co. in Gadsden, Alabama has created and nurtured Alabama's beer culture with inspiration and support from his home state.
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Meet the Makers: Jason Wilson, Back Forty Beer Co. (SPONSORED)
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2015 Craft BeerAdvent (R) Calendar - Day 19 - Back Forty Beer Co.
A pint with Tim in Gadsden, Alabama of his delicious Craft BeerAdvent (R) Calendar creation - Trade Day Cuban Coffee Stout
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Tripp Collins COO with Back Forty Beer Company on Brewing Beer
Back Forty Beer Company COO Tripp Collins talks about brewing beer and the Back Forty Beer Company along with how they named the company located in Gadsden, Alabama.
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A series of changes to state laws has opened up Alabama to the world of high-alcohol specialty beers
A beer revolution is brewing in Alabama.
Drinkers thirsty for something other than Budweiser or Miller didn't have many choices in the state just a few years ago, but a series of laws passed since 2009 has opened up Alabama to the world of high-alcohol specialty beers, neighborhood brew pubs and microbreweries. It's a big change in a Bible Belt state that still has dry counties and legally banned home beer brewing and wine making until this year.
Today, Alabama drinkers can still grab some Buds, and many do. But there's also Truck Stop Honey ale, brewed by the Gadsden-based Back Forty Beer Co.; Monkeynaut IPA by Huntsville's Straight to Ale LLC; Vanillaphant Porter by Avondale Brewing Co. of Birmingham; and Section Street Wheat by Fairhope Brewing Co., located on the scenic eastern shore of Mobile Bay.
And unlike before, hobbyists can now legally make their own beer after purchasing supplies.
Michael Sellers, a founder and co-owner of Good People Brewing Co. in Birmingham, said everything is different because legislators updated some old laws.
There's definitely a vibe of kind of New South resurgence that you haven't felt in years past that you feel now, Sellers said.
Small breweries were common before the United States outlawed alcohol production and sales in 1920 during Prohibition, but large brewers have dominated the industry in the decades since legalized resumed 80 years ago.
Small, craft brewers gained popularity in parts of the nation in the 1980s and '90s, but Alabama was all but left out partly because of strict alcohol laws tied to Prohibition and religious opposition to alcohol use.
Good People Brewing began operations in 2008 under the old laws that limited everything from alcohol content to bottle size. Then, in 2009, a grassroots groups called Free The Hops got legislators to pass a law that allowed higher-alcohol brews, which are typical for craft breweries.
Twenty different brewers now operate in Alabama, including four brew pubs, and total employment is estimated to be at least 250 people. Huntsville has the biggest concentration with seven brewers, and other brewers or pubs are located in Anniston, Birmingham, Dothan, Fairhope, Montgomery, Phenix City, and Tuscaloosa, Wilson said.
The Brewers Guild projects 40,000 barrels of beer will be brewed in Alabama this year compared to just 1,000 barrels in 2009.
The numbers are still tiny in comparison to some states. Atlanta's SweetWater Brewing Co. this year expects to produce 147,000 barrels, or 107,000 more barrels than every Alabama brewer combined.
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Historic Downtown Music Festival 2012
Historic Downtown Music Festival 2012 from BevNerd Podcast. Like this? Watch the latest episode of BevNerd Podcast on Blip!
Located at Back Forty Beer Company, downtown Gadsden, Alabama. This video features some of the bands who were in attendance. Jackson County, The Leverton Brothers Band, Players, Old School and an interview with Ballyhoo. Also, hear from the mayor of Gadsden, Sherman Guyton and a friend of mine, Colin Fourt. Links:
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A History of Hops: Craft Brewing in Alabama by Jason Wilson
Jason Wilson, founder of Alabama’s largest brewery, discusses the history of the craft beer industry in Alabama. He explores the influence of more than fifty manufacturing breweries on the state’s economic and social landscape. Wilson is the founder and CEO of Back Forty Beer Company. Since 2009 the company has made a significant economic contribution to the City of Gadsden and is now the largest producer and exporter of alcohol in Alabama. Wilson and his
wife live in Gadsden’s historic district and spend their free time restoring their century-old Greek Revival style home. Admission to Food for Thought presentations is always FREE.
Complimentary beverages will be provided. For additional information call (334) 353-4689.
Food for Thought 2019 is made possible by the Friends of the Alabama Archives and a grant from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the state’s government-records repository, a special-collections library and research facility, and home to the Museum of Alabama, the state history museum. It is located in downtown Montgomery, directly across the street from the State Capitol. The Archives and Museum are open Monday through Saturday, 8:30 to 4:30. The EBSCO Research Room is open Tuesday through Friday and the second Saturday of the
month from 8:30 to 4:30. To learn more, visit archives.alabama.gov or call (334) 242-4364.
#WatchMeWednesday: Meet Gadsden State volleyball player Taylor Spradley
Gadsden State volleyball player Taylor Spradley is now an ACCC Champion, a NJCAA Gulf Atlantic District Champion, ACCC Co-Player of the Year and NJCAA Gulf Atlantic District Tournament MVP. Join us as she talks with Kasey Langley about her journey at Gadsden State and how it feels to be a champion.
Taylor and the team will be heading to the NJCAA DI Volleyball Championship next week. Be sure to join us for the Cardinal Community Pep Rally coming up Monday night at Back Forty Beer Company starting at 6:30 p.m. as we send them off to Hutchinson, Kansas.
Behind the Beers - Kudzu
We had come up with the recipe for our first porter. It was lighter and heavier on the hops than a traditional porter.
The recipe was down. We just needed a name.
It was 2011. The folks at Free the Hops had been pushing legislation to lift an archaic packaging restriction of 16 oz or less for beer in Alabama. The only state with such a harsh restriction at the time.
Jason and I were driving to Montgomery it seemed like two or three days a week, every week, for months, recalls Tripp Collins, COO. If you take Highway 77 towards Sylacauga, just south of Lincoln on I-20, there is a Kudzu RV Park.... We passed it what felt like a hundred times, and we were like, 'Man, Kudzu would be a really good name for a beer.'
In August 2012 the Gourmet Bottle Bill becomes law. The bill allows the sale of bottles of beer up to 750ml (25.4oz), ending one of the most unexplainable restrictions in a group of really unexplainable laws limiting commerce in Alabama.
That same year we released Kudzu Porter, once a year-round beer and now our cold weather seasonal.
This is the last week of winter, and as I type this there are 4 plus inches of snow on the ground here in Gadsden. Seems like the perfect time to have one more Kudzu before it's gone until the next bit of Alabama cold starts back in the Fall!
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