American Homebrewers Association Coaster
date: label: date made
content: Around 1983-1986
notes: label: Description
content: Following the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, brewing beer at home remained illegal in the United States. This changed in 1978, when President Jimmy Carter signed HR 1337, which went into effect on February 1, 1979. The legalization of homebrewing enabled what had been an underground hobby to flourish. Homebrew supply shops and homebrew clubs multiplied.
label: Description
content: When homebrewing was legalized, Charlie Papazian, an enthusiastic homebrewer since his days as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia in the late 1960s and early 1970s, founded the journal Zymurgy and the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) to serve as forums for education and communication among homebrewers across the country. Papazian also coined the beloved lines pictured on the front of this coaster, which communicate the easygoing attitude of many homebrewers: "Relax. Don't Worry. Have a Homebrew."
label: Description
content: The vast majority of microbrewers and craft brewers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries first learned how to brew beer at home.
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John K. McCulla
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3093.01
label: catalog number
content: 2018.3093.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2018.3093
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coaster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: printing ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: beige; red; blue; yellow (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in; 10.16 cm