We’ve been looking for examples of Jimmy Carter’s actions during his administration, and we came across it. It’s not much, but this offer Carter an ehsan boy for taking a Democratic president’s idea and running with it.
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We know Carter was a church-going person, Sunday school teacher, and teetotaler. After his death on December 29 and having already begun giving advice to the King of Kings, there is no denying that he has already met his Maker in the holy world. Make no mistake, though: All beer-loving Americans should raise a gallon to the original teetotaler in commander at some point during his state funeral on January 9 for this reason.  ,
In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed into law Human 1337,” An Act to alter the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to excise taxes on specific trucks, buses, tractors, et al, house production of beer and wine, refunds of the taxes on gasoline and unique fuels to flying applicators, and limited rollovers of lump sum distributions”.
The new legislation, which completely overturned the prohibition against making “moonshiners,” made it legal for them to trade in the car without worry of the revenuers who would haul them away to the government ‘ 1978 version of the D. C. Gulag.  ,
By agreeing to the bill that Republican representative William A. Steiger from Wisconsin ( beer country ), Carter untied the governmental roost and stopped unnecessary governmental interference in homebrewing.
My father and his classmates used to make beer in their dwellings as kids, and it was all very hush-hush. It was no pun. They were concerned that someone would discover the truth and that they would be arrested.
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Author and ale writer Charlie Papazian remembers , that before Carter signed the invoice a Fed attended one of his rogue home cooking lessons in Boulder, Colorado.  ,
Someone allegedly registered for my school, and I was alerted about this. And this man showed up wearing a black necktie, a white shirt, and black loose pants. And he most likely was the only one who wore that outfit throughout. And he came to the group. I knew he was going to get coming. And I just gave my regular shtick that, you know, the ATF, the state has better things to do than arrest homebrewers, only — you make beer, produce it for your own personal use and certainly don’t buy it. In the two classes he showed up in, I continued to teach the glass, and he rolled up his sleeves and learned how to make beer.  ,
In 1965, Fritz Maytag, who helped save San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing from bankruptcy in 1965 and helped preserve a tradition of small, independent breweries in a world increasingly dominated by mass-produced beer, was already in its infancy.
The craft brewing industry boomed when it was combined with “scientific breakthroughs, such as the development of the Cascade hop ( which would serve as the backbone for the revitalization of a once-everywhere, now-omnivorous type of beer called” India Pale Ale” ) and Washington State legal changes, as well as lobbying from the McMenamin and Widmer families in Oregon. Reason also points out that 90 % of these homebreweries first started brewing beer at home.  ,
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According to Papazian, the real impact of the law was the freedom to compete, exchange knowledge, and more readily obtain fresh ingredients for beer production. He claimed that the ability to share it with your friends, attend club meetings, conferences, and competitions, and learn about the science and art of homebrewing was something the legislation really addressed more seriously than the ability to make it at home.
Carter didn’t just jump on the craft brewing bug as much as he did the fermentation process, making homebrewing a respectable form of food artistry. And God bless him. Other countries, such as Germany, had been doing this for generations and Americans noticed and wanted change.
It’s a start.
The government now needs to deregulate home stills. Craft spirits are out there, but let’s call off the revenuers and get the government jackboot off backyard chemists, too.
