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Importing material from europe, suddenly could. jon: i didn t realize that the prohibition laws that allowed, you know, home wine making and so forth didn t apply to beer. right. it was technically illegal to brew beer at home in this country back in the 1970 s, huh? absolutely right. after repeal in 1933 home wine making was legalized. home brewing was not for whatever reason. while the government did not really crack down on home brewing there was always that fear that could happen at any moment. so that put a child on entrepeneurship. jon: let s flash forward to today. a lot of the story are condensing. maybe people will run out to buy your book to read bit all, flash forward today, what has it done for the economy in this country, relaxation of regulation and taxation? jon, it is kind of amazing. i do track this in my book the audacity of hops, we ve gone from fewer than 50 breweries to more than 2700 now. a lot of the home brewers ....