It's kind of crazy to think that as recently as 30 years ago, if you wanted to make beer in your home, you'd have to break the law.

Thankfully, in 1978, it became legal on the federal level for people to home brew,

but unfortunately, this didn't include everyone as certain states

continued to restrict this natural right.

But this all ended in 2013 when the last two holdouts, Mississippi and Alabama,

passed laws making it okay for people to make beer at home.

For the first time since prohibition, it was legal to homebrew in all 50 of the United States.

This was due in large part to the dedication and hard work of the American Home Brewers Association.

In addition to continuing the fight for our right to brew, they're committed to growing the hobby by coordinating events such as Big Brew for National Homebrew Day and Homebrew Con.

We're proud to say that the Brulosophy Podcast is brought to you by the American Homebrewers Association

and encourage all of our listeners to support the organization that has done so much for this

hobby by becoming a member today. Welcome back to the Brulosophy Podcast. I'm your host Marshall Shot and joining me on this episode is contributor

Jason Cipriani to talk about a topic that we've experimented with a couple of times

I think it's something familiar to most home brewers and that's bagging your hops.

Yeah this is one of those topics that is shrouded in mystery somewhat,

but also a hot topic, especially at home brew club meetings and whatnot.

Yeah, it's kind of a one of those things that I think a lot of it goes

unthought of by a lot of home brewers you either just do it or you don't do it you know I know

that there are some some opinions probably not terribly strong, but there are definitely

some opinions as to the benefits or the lack thereof of bagging one's hops.

And this goes for kettle hops as well as dry hops.

Again, we've experimented with both of those

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