Belt’s Beer Garden: Hop on In!

This week two hopped up brews, one from the north and one from way down south.

Up first, an Alabama brewery making their first appearance on BBG.

Alabama has not been kind to craft breweries in the past but a lot has been changing there due to the Free the Hops Movement. With the success of that movement, the number and quality of the brews down there has been growing exponentially, but it still has room to grow.

At the end of 2017 Alabama only had 34 breweries operating in the state (which ranked them 37th in the US). For comparison, the city of Chicago alone has about 5x that…at 167. Even states with similar populations to Bama, like that of and Kentucky, South Carolina, and Oregon have many…