Sunday alcohol sales are currently illegal in Georgia, with limited exceptions (on-premise, at sports events, etc.). Today the Georgia state Senate panel will vote on a bill to allow Sunday alcohol sales. We here at Monday Night Brewery are, of course, rooting for the free market to knock some sense into the current legislation. According [...]

Read a great article in Wired recently about the underground production of moonshine.  One of the highlights was a bit about a federal agent:
John Spidell misses the moonshine tradition. A former federal revenuer, the 65-year-old spent the first half of the ’70s “busting up” illegal stills in North Carolina. His job sometimes required living in [...]

Our guv’na, Sonny Perdue, signed a couple wine laws at the last possible moment. While none of these is related to beer, it could provide a nice little backdrop for updating Georgia’s notoriously stingy beer laws. Three wine laws have recently been approved:

The most exciting: ONLINE wine sales
 Sunday sales at Gwinnett stadium
Ability to take half [...]

Could this be the year? Alabama’s beer laws, which were written by a caveman back when John McCain was born, may just get the updating they deserve. There have been a number of high-profile incidences lately, thanks in a large part to Free the Hops. Free the Hops is a grassroots organization lobbying for beer [...]

I was recently at a wedding out of state and explaining to a friend (from Colorado) how oppressive the beer laws in Georgia have been.  For those of you who are new to this discussion said oppressions included the illegality of high gravity beers until a few years ago, complex laws that make it [...]