Thursday, January 26th 2012 Good People Brewing Debuts Cans of Snake Handler Double IPA
This week, Birmingham, Alabama's Good People Brewing Company filled, seamed, packaged, and shipped their initial canning run of Snake Handler Double IPA. Cans hits area shelves yesterday. This is the third canned offering from the state's first, and so far only, canning craft brewery. Thanks to Gabe Harris, President of Alabama's grassroots organization, Free the Hops, for being at the brewery on canning day and taking all of these great pictures showing how empty cans on highly-stacked palletts come to life after being filled with that liquid we all love so much. Great work, we can't wait to try the finished product!
Something that makes Snake Handler so special, besides being a very good Double IPA, is that it wasn't that long ago that a beer like this was illegal for brewers to produce within the borders of the state. Something most of us don't even think about since a vast majority of states don't place such limiting restrictions on beer.
In May of 2009, the Free The Hops' Gourmet Beer Bill was signed which allowed brewers in the state to produce beers over 6% (Snake Handler clocks in at 9.3%). It remains essentially illegal to homebrew in the state and sales of containers over 16 oz. are prohibited. Organizations like Free the Hops are fighting for more relaxed laws that will help to promote better beer in Alabama and to allow for the state's brewers to have more freedoms.
Along with being the third canned beer from Good People Brewing, Snake Handler is the first American Double/Imperial IPA to be canned in the Southeast. There are currently 17 versions of this style being canned.
About this beer (from the Good People Brewing site):
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