Izinkampani ezintathu nje zilawula cishe amaphesenti angama-80 embonini kabhiya US. Ukuphisa ubhiya ekhaya kungenye yezindlela zokulwa nalokhu kugunyazwa kwezinkampani. Nokho, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama futhi Oklahoma usawuphula umthetho umsebenzi wezandla. Muva nje, ukunqoba kwabakhiqizi basekhaya kutholwe phakathi Utah, lapho ngoFebhuwari 19 iSigele Sombuso senza ngokusemthethweni ukwenziwa kwezindlu zasekhaya, okuletha umbuso ethunzini lokuvinjelwa.
AmaSenatha amathathu eRiphabhulikhi avotele ngokumelene nalo mthethosivivinywa, okuhlanganisa neSenate Majority Assistant Whip uGregory Bell. "Angikhululekile ngokupheka utshwala basekhaya," Bell Kusho uNdaba waseDeseret. "Kubukeka sengathi kugcwele ububi kimi. Mhlawumbe angikuqondi."
Kungani kungenjalo Bell uqonde lokhu okumnandi umsebenzi wezandla amandla? Mhlawumbe yingoba izinkampani sezithathe imboni kunezakudala ezigxile emakhishini omhlaba. KwakuseMesophothamiya, usuku lwanamuhla Iraq, lapho kwaqala khona ukuhwebelana kukabhiya nebhali, ngokusho kweFermenting Revolution: How To Drink Beer and Save the World kaChristopher O'Brien. Isidingo sokutshala izitshalo zalo mkhiqizo obalulekile kungenzeka ukuthi kwakuyisizathu sokuqala sokuhlaliswa komphakathi wokuqala omkhulu emhlabeni. Ku IBhabhiloni, lapho ubhiya wawuphephe kakhudlwana ukuwuphuza kunamanzi omsele, ibhali nobhiya kwakusetshenziswa njengohlobo lwemali. Izisekelo zomphakathi wanamuhla zibonakala zakhelwe phezu kobhiya.
Ngesikhathi se-American Revolution, amavukela-mbuso akhuthaza ukuduba ubhiya wesiNgisi, ehlabelela inkulumo ethi, "I-Homebrewed Is Best." UGeorge Washington wazenzela ubhiya wakhe endlini ekhethelwe lo msebenzi egcekeni lakhe. Ngo Monticello, uThomas Jefferson wanika abangani bakhe izifundo zokuphisa ubhiya. Ngo-1872, kwakunezindawo zokuphuza utshwala ezingu-3,421 US. NgokweNew Yorker, phakathi neMpi Yombango, ilungu le-United States Sanitary Commission lathi ubhiya โuwukuthatha indawo yemifino ewusizo.โ Manje kunabaphisi botshwala abangaphezu kwe-1,400, futhi ngaphezu kwesigidi sabaphisi bezindlu basekhaya US.
Kodwa ngesikhathi se-Prohibition, abaphisi botshwala basekhaya bashaya kakhulu. Ngemuva kokuthi i-Prohibition isusiwe, iwayini lalivunyelwe ukukhiqizwa ngokusemthethweni ekhaya, kodwa ubhiya wawungavunyelwe. Ngo-1978, i-NY Congressman Barbar Conable yaxhasa umthethosivivinywa owawuzogunyaza ukukhiqizwa kwekhaya. Lapho ethula lo mthethosivivinywa kuCongress, uConable uthe abantu baseMelika akufanele "bathembele kuma-barons kabhiya" ekwenzeni kwabo utshwala. Kwaze kwafika ngo-1979, lapho uMongameli uJimmy Carter esayina i-Cranston Act, ukuthi ukuphisa ekhaya kwakusemthethweni ezifundazweni eziningi. Ngesikhathi kuphasiswa lo mthetho, bekunezinkampani ezikhiqiza utshwala ezingamashumi amane nane kuphela ebezisebenza US.
Kodwa-ke, uMthetho we-Cranston usavumela amazwe angawodwana ukuthi avimbele ukukhiqizwa. Ngaphambi kokuthi iSenethi yase-Utah yenze ngokusemthethweni ukwenziwa kwezindlu zasekhaya ezinsukwini ezimbalwa ezedlule, labo ababedayisa ekhaya kwadingeka bathole ilayisense futhi bathumele ibhondi engu-$10,000. U-Senator wase-Utah uSteve Urquhart uthe mayelana nesigatshana somthetho omusha, "Sisebenzisana nabantu abadala futhi lokhu akuyona nje into enkulu. Yilokho ukuphikisana okungikhuthazayo." UMbusi wase-Utah uJon Huntsman manje udinga ukusayina umthethosivivinywa ukuze usebenze. Njengoba kusalindwe lesi siqephu, abakhi basekhaya bazokwazi ukwenza isiphuzo esisemthethweni kusukela ngoMeyi 12.
Lokhu kunqoba kwabakhiqizi basekhaya ku Utah ngokwengxenye kungenxa yeminyaka emibili yokulwela amalungelo abantu basemazingeni aphansi kanye nokunxenxa ingxenye ye-American Homebrewers Association kanye no-Gary Glass, umqondisi weNhlangano. UGlass ukhulume noMhloli Kabhiya mayelana nenqubo. โSiyabonga kakhulu kubo bonke Utah abadayisi bemisebenzi yezandla abasisizile emzamweni wokwenza kube semthethweni ukwenziwa kwezindlu zasekhaya eminyakeni embalwa edluleโฆ Impendulo enkulu esibe nayo kusuka Utah abaphisi bezindlu nabathanda ubhiya ukuxhumana nezishayamthetho zabo kube nomthelela omkhulu. Bengikhona futhi ngafakaza ezigcawini zekomidi lezomthetho futhi ngagqugquzelwa ukuzwa kumalungu amaningi esishayamthetho ukuthi bamangele ngenani labantu abaxhumana nabavoti bebanxusa ukuthi beseke lesi sinyathelo. "
Ukwenza i-Homebrewing kuwukuzilibazisa okumangalisayo futhi okungasiza ekwakheni umphakathi. Ku Burlington, Vermont mina nabangane bami sisanda kuhlanganisa imali yethu ukuze sithenge izinto zokuphisa, futhi saqala iqoqo elihlanganyela izisetshenziswa, izindlela zokupheka kanye nobhiya nabanye abantu bendawo edolobheni. Ngale ndlela, ukwenziwa kwezindlu zasekhaya kuye kwakha umphakathi futhi kusivumela ukuthi sinqume umuntu ophakathi kwebhizinisi.
Ngokufanayo, ukunqoba kwama-homebrewers ku Utah kuyisinyathelo esisodwa esiseduze sokuvumela abaphuza ubhiya emhlabeni wonke ukuthi babuyise utshwala babo ezinkampanini zomhlaba.
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