That’s a little town between here and Fort Payne across the TN River.
When the story broke on local news I was wondering why all the hubbub. It’s just a guy making homemade wine. Then realized the 15 gal ‘in home’ rule. There’s also an annual limit but I forget what it is — something like 200 gallons for a married household. This was several gallons over the limit and was on city property so definitely not ‘in home’.
If they were selling it that brings in the tax laws. AL is crazy about their liquor tax. Permits for it being not ‘in home’ — aka commercial — with all the rigermarol that comes with it was circumvented as well.
My guess is an unhappy customer or a scorned woman spilled the beans.
I was wondering who narced him out. I’m pretty impressed by that set up TBH. I did a lot of work in the dothan alabama area at the nuclear plant and one of the local union brothers had an off the chain delicious water melon wine he was selling!
Pennsylvania has some strange laws and state stores aswell but generally they pay “decent” to work there from a service industry stand point.
I live in Alabama (Huntsville) and am from PA (Mechanicsburg) so I know exactly what you mean about weird PA alcohol laws. The laws were even worse here in AL when I first moved but now they are much better than PA. sure do miss buying a case at the Beer Distro though.
Sucks for the dude but #1) Dumb ass for selling it and #2) Dumb ass for doing it at work. Idiot.
I live in southern york county. Where everything is two hours away lol.
Definitely screwed the pooch doing it at work.
I worked in York for about 2 years (York Daily Record and York Dispatch). Small world.
It is, I grew up in NJ/GA then work and love brought me to York county of all places. TBH I don’t much care for it here but career wise it was a wise move.what brought you down to Alabama?
My dad worked for the Army and he moved here and I followed a while later because Central PA is a hard place to live. Huntsville, AL is a really nice place to live … for the most part.
I’m finding the job market here increasingly shrinking especially if your not a warehouse worker or forklift operator that is for sure. I always liked going to Alabama for work good bbq nice people for the most part
Huntsville is blowing up. It’s on track to be bigger than Birmingham in the next few years. And it’s back in the running for US Space Force headquarters.
Oh, and there are a lot (compared to Montgomery) of craft brewers.
What was he thinking acting like he lives in a free country. I’d hang that jury so fast! Though I agree he’s an idiot for a variety of reasons.
I’ve seen Huntsville come a very long way since I moved here in 1993 and I’m proud to have been one of the vanguards of the craft beer emergence here with Yellowhammer Brewing.
What was he thinking acting like he lives in a free country. I’d hang that jury so fast! Though I agree he’s an idiot for a variety of reasons.
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I illegally homebrewed hin Bama long before I even knew it was illegal. I would, of course, “never” attempt to do the other illegal “extension” of brewing … err, at least I would never admit to doing it and I certainly wouldn’t sell it if I did.
It is truly remarkably dumb that he did this at work, and not even in an office or other private space.
If he did this at home, even selling it to a reasonable circle of people he knew, it would be hard to get caught. What he did made getting caught, and losing his job, inevitable.
Lots of folks stretch the still-exceptionally-restrictive Alabama homebrewing laws. But doing it on govt property and selling it? 
While it does seem a bit extreme that this amounts to felony charges, he should def lose his job for misuse of govt property. That’s like day-one ethics training stuff there.
Don’t tell. Don’t sell.
In the times of COVID-19 I think it is prudent to make your own craft hand sanitizer to reserve the limited supply for healthcare providers. If you choose to make your hand sanitizer juniper or oak scented, then more power to you ;D