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. Viewed by many as being one of the most important aspects of making good beer, yeast starters are used

to increase the number of cells, a brewer pitches, into their beer.

I'm your host, Marshall Schott, and in this episode of the BruLosophy Podcast, contributor

Jake Hoolahan joins me to chat about this

method that really seems to have become a norm among homebrewers over the last decade.

Yeah I know I make starters for most batches these days you know putting

together some notes for this for this specific

podcast. I remember my first yeast starter was made with an old broken growler

and I'm pretty sure it didn't actually do anything at that time.

Not because the growler was broken.

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