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Date: 07 Jun 2006 04:38:25
From: michaellasalle@gmail.com
Subject: Looking for a place...
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Does anybody know of a good HB shop in the Chicago area? I live in
northeast IA (where afaik we've got nothing) and I will be traveling to
Chicago next week with my family and some friends and I'd like to pick
some stuff up while I'm there.
Thanks all,
Scotty B
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Date: 07 Jun 2006 15:15:54
From: Dick Adams
Subject: Re: Looking for a place...
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michaellasalle@gmail.com <michaellasalle@gmail.com > wrote:
> Does anybody know of a good HB shop in the Chicago area? I live in
> northeast IA (where afaik we've got nothing) and I will be traveling to
> Chicago next week with my family and some friends and I'd like to pick
> some stuff up while I'm there.
Iowa does not have a homebrew exception for beer so no homebrew stores.
For Illinois LHBS', check out:
http://beertown.org/homebrewing/shops.asp
Dick
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Date: 07 Jun 2006 15:46:30
From: Joel
Subject: Re: Looking for a place...
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Dick Adams <rdadams@smart.net > wrote:
>michaellasalle@gmail.com <michaellasalle@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anybody know of a good HB shop in the Chicago area? I live in
>> northeast IA (where afaik we've got nothing) and I will be traveling to
>> Chicago next week with my family and some friends and I'd like to pick
>> some stuff up while I'm there.
>
>Iowa does not have a homebrew exception for beer so no homebrew stores.
There are and have been homebrew stores in Iowa. For
example, I believe Heartland Homebrew Supply in Des Moines
still operates, as well as the BLueStem Winery and Artisan
Mall in Parkersburg. I know of at least one other that
closed, not for lack of business but so the owners could
devote more time to running a brewery.
>For Illinois LHBS', check out:
>http://beertown.org/homebrewing/shops.asp
I recommend The Brewers Coop (in the same building as
Two Brothers brewery) which might be right on the way,
just north off I-88 in the far western suburbs of the
Chicago area. Er, Warrenville? Warrensburg?
--
Joel Plutchak
"...illiterate Abyssinians did it for 5000 years, you can do it too."
- Guy Gregory on brewing beer
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Date: 07 Jun 2006 19:08:01
From: Pete
Subject: Re: Looking for a place...
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Alabama doesn't either, but we Do have some HB stores.
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:15:54 -0000, rdadams@smart.net (Dick Adams)
wrote:
>michaellasalle@gmail.com <michaellasalle@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know of a good HB shop in the Chicago area? I live in
>> northeast IA (where afaik we've got nothing) and I will be traveling to
>> Chicago next week with my family and some friends and I'd like to pick
>> some stuff up while I'm there.
>
>Iowa does not have a homebrew exception for beer so no homebrew stores.
>
>For Illinois LHBS', check out:
>http://beertown.org/homebrewing/shops.asp
>
>Dick
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Date: 08 Jun 2006 04:51:26
From: michaellasalle@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Looking for a place...
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Dick Adams wrote:
> Iowa does not have a homebrew exception for beer so no homebrew stores.
>
> For Illinois LHBS', check out:
> http://beertown.org/homebrewing/shops.asp
>
> Dick
I'm still new to this, could you explain what you mean by "homebrew
exception"?
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Date: 08 Jun 2006 13:00:40
From: Dick Adams
Subject: Re: Looking for a place...
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michaellasalle@gmail.com <michaellasalle@gmail.com > wrote:
> Dick Adams wrote:
>> Iowa does not have a homebrew exception for beer so no homebrew stores.
>>
>> For Illinois LHBS', check out:
>> http://beertown.org/homebrewing/shops.asp
> I'm still new to this, could you explain what you mean by "homebrew
> exception"?
All of this has to do with tax law. The Internal Revenue Code (IRC)
allows homebrewer to make up to 100 gallons of beer per adult
member of a household with a maximum of 200 gallons per year
without getting any licenses of paying any alcohol taxes.
The same goes for wine/mead. It was in the IRC before prohibition
for wine. Congress added beer in 1979.
HOWEVER, States control the actual legality of alcohol production,
sales, and consumption. So it needs to be added to the State tax
code too. I believe Iowa allows homebreing of wine and nothing is
written about beer. And then there are the farmers running personal
stills, but Iowa is a farm State so busting a farmer is politically
incorrect unless the farmer is selling the stuff.
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A friend of mine sons when to the University of Iowa. My friend
read an article that noted that 72% of the male population in Iowa
went to work every day in bib overalls. One of his sons said that
to get a percentage that low, the author had to have taken his
survey at lunch on a weekday in downtown Des Moines.
Dick
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Date: 09 Jun 2006 19:43:58
From: beast
Subject: Re: Looking for a place...
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Scotty B, according to White Labs' website, the Oneota Community Coop in
Decorah sells homebrew supplies, so you might stop there and check it out.
It's nice to have a local place to shop, and if you're in NE Iowa, it's a
lot closer than Chicago. Also check out Bluestem Winery as recommended
above.There are lots of good mail order shops out there too.
> ========
> A friend of mine sons when to the University of Iowa. My friend
> read an article that noted that 72% of the male population in Iowa
> went to work every day in bib overalls. One of his sons said that
> to get a percentage that low, the author had to have taken his
> survey at lunch on a weekday in downtown Des Moines.
>
> Dick
Dick is technically correct in that Iowa law doesn't recognize homebrewing,
however this doesn't mean there aren't any homebrew shops. The rest of his
post reminds me of one of Bill Bryson's anecdotes from "The Lost Continent".
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Date: 10 Jun 2006 15:20:36
From: John LaBella
Subject: Re: Looking for a place...
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In article <P8mdna8gNJ9KiBfZnZ2dnUVZ_radnZ2d@insightbb.com >, "beast" <->
says...
> Scotty B, according to White Labs' website, the Oneota Community Coop in
> Decorah sells homebrew supplies, so you might stop there and check it out.
> It's nice to have a local place to shop, and if you're in NE Iowa, it's a
> lot closer than Chicago. Also check out Bluestem Winery as recommended
> above.There are lots of good mail order shops out there too.
>
> > ========
> > A friend of mine sons when to the University of Iowa. My friend
> > read an article that noted that 72% of the male population in Iowa
> > went to work every day in bib overalls. One of his sons said that
> > to get a percentage that low, the author had to have taken his
> > survey at lunch on a weekday in downtown Des Moines.
> >
> > Dick
>
>
> Dick is technically correct in that Iowa law doesn't recognize homebrewing,
> however this doesn't mean there aren't any homebrew shops. The rest of his
> post reminds me of one of Bill Bryson's anecdotes from "The Lost Continent".
>
>
>
I am in Davenport Iowa ... THere is a Homebrew supply store here in The
village of East Davenport... THeir prices are on a par or a little
higher than Ebay (after factoring shipping And Taxes and delay).
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