How Jimmy Carter Jump-Started the Craft Beer Revolution | WSJ

[@wsj]

The misunderstood consequences of Jimmy Carter’s presidency: on.wsj.com/3VU79Vd

[@SethSinclair]

*Carter dies* WSJ: Beer.

[@bherber]

What's wrong with WSJ simply pointing out something positive that he did? Also, it's not necessarily about beer. It's about an industry that he allowed to occur. More about business and deregulation.

[@bngr_bngr]

How many more drunk drivers killed people since home breeding?

[@libiroli]

I worked in news. We prepared death stories and videos years in advance. Not just obituaries but features too. There are tons ready for everyone you can think of Buffett, Greenspan, Eastwood, Soros... It's morbid sure but I guess a prepared piece is better than a rush job in terms of honoring their legacy.

[@SethSinclair]

@@libiroli I understand. I was making a simple joke, by stripping away the context of both the situation and the video itself.

[@Seamonkey555]

​​@bngr_bngr didn't home brewing help people stay safely at home while they drank? Comprehensive studies directly linking home brewing with drunk driving trends are scarce. Drunk driving rates are more typically influenced by broader factors such as alcohol availability, public awareness campaigns, legal regulations, and enforcement. In short, the effect of home brewing on drunk driving is not well-documented, and other societal factors play a more prominent role in trends related to drunk driving. I love craft beer and like those I know we believe there's no situation in which drinking and driving is acceptable.

[@portetyy7467]

Either WSJ is really good at making videos in hours or this video is made earlier and released at an impeccable timing.

[@Verbatim47]

All this stuff is lined up in preparation for famous/prominent peoples death.

[@abhinavadhikari9087]

They probably have video about every president alive in case of thier demise.

[@hobbitninja]

his hospice was announced well in advanced so everyone had lead time

[@poolhall9632]

Left-wing media outlets always have lionizing stories in the tank for when one of their mediocre politicians dies. They still talk about Ted Kennedy like he wasn't molesting interns and drinking 24/7 while on the floor of the senate... Donald Trump was found civilly liable for an alleged sexual assault that took place decades ago, but major media outlets won't even interview Tara Reid... ... and they certainly didn't have time for Monica Lewinsky, until she produced the blue dress. Republican politicians will be prosecuted for crimes that might have been committed decades ago, while Democrats are absolved.

[@Squirrelmind66]

I believe these are called “cold cuts” in journalism.

[@nikkivieler3761]

Probably the best law signed by any U.S. president...

[@ledeyabaklykova]

Definitely. Decriminalised home brewing!

[@markhale8084]

Senator Cranston of California and Representative Steiger of Wisconsin were the two who introduced the actual legislation. President Carter (RIP) thankfully signed it.

[@ledeyabaklykova]

These two lawmakers reportedly were ‘entertained’ by the Big Beer breweries the moment these brewing behemoths got wind that Cranston and Steiger’s bill was gaining traction in Congress in 76-77. (The two were unfazed.). Big Beer apparently explains why there wasn’t much effort by Congress the previous 60 yrs to legalise home brewing. Barrels of money prolly.

[@bobloblaw9362]

I raise my IPA to Jimmy!

[@justinstephenson9360]

US craft beer shows the big brewers what beers should be like. I love that US craft brewers have preserved and in some cases resuscitated old styles of beer - much as I like US IPAs it is the Amber Ales that have been a highlight for me. I never knew that Carter was responsible for restarting the US craft brewing industry

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

Oh, thank you for your service. I'll have a nice cold one in his honor.

[@TheBruSho]

Thank you President Carter! Without that bill I wouldn't have my favorite hobby!

[@ELRORRITO1]

Hey. What are you doing here. 😂... This. Thanks to Jimmy we have a great hobby (Not according to my Wife). Salud to best law ever sign.. see you in your channel... 😂

[@ELRORRITO1]

Hey this could be a great video 📹 for the channel. I'm just saying 😃 😁 ..

[@centamangila1217]

Also cover another bill that Jimmy Carter signed that saved an industry: the Staggers Rail Act, which lifted many regulations concerting railroads.

[@fredbarnes196]

In the 70s you couldn’t even get Coors in New York or New England. I remember trying to bring a couple cases back but drinking them before we got home

[@SamMcKinley]

WSJ is great!!! I just read the Jimmy Carter article. Seemed to be a good guy but got a bad wrap. All the shady politicians get praised.

[@nolongeramused8135]

Jimmy Carter, for all his faults, was fundamentally a very good person, just completely wrong for the presidency in many ways. His biggest failings were assuming that other people were also fundamentally good, and he suffered from "analysis paralysis," where he was constantly in search of having ALL the data before making a decision. Leaders need to be able to make decisions, and he was generally incapable of getting past the wavering point. Nor was he capable of recognizing bad actors on the international stage - the USSR invading Afghanistan both surprised and shocked him when it was obvious for a long time that it was going to happen. Politically, the events that destroyed his chances are reelection were the Iran hostage debacle (where he was unwilling to act), a prime rate over 20%, gas lines, double-digit unemployment, stagflation, and the "malaise" speech where he lectured the nation on what a disappointment we all were to him. He was also easily mocked, the sweaters he constantly wore were unbecoming of the oval office (the press at first found them friendly and unassuming, and then a sign of how unserious he was about the job), and his brother Billy was a sideshow clown for the press and comedians of the day. His true calling lay in charity.

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

Wow, cheers to Jimmy Carter for this 🍻!

[@JillWhitcomb1966]

For those of us who were of drinking age in the 1980's, the average liquor store had such a small, pitiful, selection of beers compared to what is available now. This is why so many women in the 1980's would claim that they 'didn't like beer' because our choices were so limited. But with craft beers, and beers coming in all kinds of flavors such as coffee stouts, grapefruit IPAs, berry flavored beers, and citrus, that opened the market up for a new audience.

[@Sjalabais]

Theresa McCulla is such an eloquent expert. Great interviewee! The fact that Carter's brother introduced a craft beer company *the year before the law was signed* seems non-random.

[@TOM7952]

Thanks Carter true hero!

[@kristensorensen2219]

😂😂😂🎉

[@mahlstadt]

“…when I'm in Third World countries, like when I'm in Timbuktu or Mali or Ethiopia, or when I'm in the depths of a desert in southern Sudan, I don't drink local wine, because it can be abominable. So, as an alternative, because we don't drink any sort of water, we drink beer. I do quite often, more so than I do in this country. I don't drink beer much in this country, but when I'm overseas and want to drink something and want to be able to depend on it, I drink a beer” Wine Spectator interview with Jimmy Carter, Feb 2005

[@libiroli]

Please feature Ms. McCulla in more videos -- she is fantastic!

[@MarcosAntonio-z8y9h]

Greetings citizens of the north america what God..Mr Jimmy Carter you is fantastic..

[@Pavel.22.395]

Carter first thought about his brother and then about the craft beer industry. It is how it works. It is good when the interests of the powerful align with the plebs.

[@polygentle5679]

Didn’t bro die yesterday?

[@UnprofessionalProfessor]

Yes

[@travzimmerman1340]

​@@UnprofessionalProfessor Agree to disagree

[@OG.Stangs]

RIP legend. Salty how the Republican Reds did you dirty with the Iran hostages.

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

i'm sorry to say that I did drink Miller for a few years, switched to Michelob after, then Henry Weinhard, then Samual Adams and Sierra Nevada now.

[@timothywalker4563]

It makes sense that President Carter signed the bill, with a farmer’s background. You’re a business man in overalls. Thanks Jimmy 😁

[@tsancio]

I remember Jimmy Carter because I happened to be in the USA during his Presidency (at the end I was 9 y/o). It's crazy to think that the 1970's are further away from now than they were to prohibition.

[@aeolus75]

Cheers Jimmy and 🙏

[@jo3ywils0n39]

How they ever figured out to make the ethanol produced by fermentation illegal is beyond me

[@ethanoyamawang]

To Mr. President! RIP!

[@leoekm8341]

RIP legend...

[@richburrows3726]

Thanks president Carter

[@MarcosAntonio-z8y9h]

Mr.Jimmy Carter l wish happiness very life years have a Holiday..🇧🇷🇮🇷🇺🇸🇨🇦🎆🎇

[@joshymcguire]

Bro he died yesterday…

[@lokesh303101]

Beer is Beer 🍺!

[@MrP4v]

Stegmaier Beer, the old family brewery did not survive the post prohibition period. Sad.

[@markchild1621]

I want Billy Beer!

[@bobweiss8682]

Why?

[@SuperTrapperW]

Shoutout to Jimmy Carter, may he be harvesting peanuts in the big ol’ peanut farm in the sky

[@OneHungLee]

Yeah, BILLY BEER! Take the “ft” out of “craft” then add a “p” in its place…that’s BILLY BEER!😂

[@Rugged-Mongol]

Now we need a simple, but effective Beer purity law akin to that of the Reinheitsgebot.

[@bobweiss8682]

Which would greatly hamper most modern craft brewers, who use a lot of culinary ingredients outside of the Reinheitsgebot.

[@Rugged-Mongol]

@bobweiss8682 Then it's really not beer then is it? Just a fermented grain drink with additives at that point, not a proper beer.

[@TheRetrospectVault]

he still was an president

[@kristensorensen2219]

Just imagine if he had managed to make marijuana legal by using the law already on the books like ultimately happened. Use the power in the Construction to stop the interstate commerce control of weed. He would have been more famous than George Washington!!😂

[@bobweiss8682]

He was planning to, then his chief drug policy advisor (Dr. Peter Bourne) got caught in a scandal involving cocaine at a party and some Quaalude prescriptions. Carter had to back away from legalizing weed due to the media uproar....

[@hateprotoss]

I love ipa 🍺

[@MilosKvakic]

I recommend everyone to find the book titled The Hidden Path to Manifesting Financial Power, It changed my life.

[@xmp27]

HR 1337..October 14, 1978.. Best legislation every passed by congress

[@nolongeramused8135]

Deregulation was the only thing he was 100% right about. Still doesn't make up for all the damage he caused fumbling about on everything else.

[@bobwhite2]

Cleveland jumpstarted it.

[@LibertyGarden]

Jimmy was the last good democrat.

[@timmmahhhh]

Hardly. Ford was the last non-criminal Republican.

[@christurner1791]

Now to legalise home distilling…

[@kevinjenner9502]

Quite a stretch.

[@manjon217]

How? He literally made homebrewing legal.

[@albear972]

Actually, Jimmy Carter's brother did with his Billy beer.

[@JamesRea2]

Alan Cranston put the legislation in a transportation bill. Carter had no idea it was in the bill.

[@richardgrant418]

I used to think the WSJ was quality, high level reporting. this fluff story is more like the work of a first year cadet journalist scraping the barrel for a flag waving story. you present Carter as a catalyst for craft beer industry, it certainly appears because just died and it’s a nice thing to celebrate the recently deceased. But he was * not the catalyst All he did was change the law back to what it had been 45 years previously, and was in the rest of the world. That hardly qualifies as an initiative The beginning and growth of craft brewing which followed was the initiative of the brewers, not Carter

[@joshymcguire]

This such a strange story to run the day after a president dies😂

[@thomasfarrell5396]

Why? The event did happen, so what is your issue?

[@TOM7952]

Need clicks

[@bherber]

@joshymcguire - Why? It's highlighting something positive he contributed to the business world. So many people are immediately going to the beer narrative. It's more about business and deregulation. Also, since Fox News would so heavily demonize him, he actually did a lot of deregulation during his term.

[@UnprofessionalProfessor]

I mean, it might have been a bit distasteful to bring up the Panama Canal...😂

[@henriquereisjr6771]

Who cares about inflation and recession when we have beer!

[@mistersquirrel0]

What recession? The last one was in 2020.

[@trivia.and.history]

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[@FireEverLiving]

WSJ really had to dig deep to find something they liked about Carter's presidency.

[@bherber]

That's actually not true, although you probably never read WSJ. You probably just happened upon a KZbin video... Carter did a lot of deregulation during his term which benefitted business. They have reported on that in the past. You just need to pay attention more, and do some more reading.

[@FireEverLiving]

@bherber I was trying to get people to chuckle; don't take it so seriously. I am aware that the WSJ is a serious outfit which has nuanced coverage of Carter, both today and during his presidency.

[@bherber]

@@FireEverLiving - There was seriousness in your post which shows a little bit of your partisanship. You can always backtrack and say humor and joking. WSJ is a non-partisan outfit. You probably rarely if ever pick one up to read because it's all editorial. Very little advertising (which is why it costs so much,) but they pretty much just give you nuts and bolts. You do have one tiny opinion page which comprises I think maybe 1% of the newspaper so that's what you can use as toilet paper.

[@Yanciharpci]

Firstt!!!

[@ThomasSchick]

…R.I.P. Jimmy Carter …Jimmy you can rest easy knowing you were-but are no longer “The Worst U.S. President Ever” that great accolade is shared between Obama and Biden forever and ever

[@thinktoomuchb4028]

The ripple effects of Obama's Presidency are still being felt. I just tried dunking a big cookie in milk, but it was too big to fit in the glass! Thanks, Obama.

[@DunedinMultimedia2]

Sad man.

[@-Katastrophe]

Anything to hide from talking about his abysmal presidential record, eh?

[@markmeadows7569]

Interesting why does this praise only come when he has passed?

[@bherber]

Actually not true at all Mark Meadows. Carter has received praise for doing a lot of deregulation during his term. You probably just weren't paying attention.

[@Michaelgrx]

Those are definitely fake beers in the thumbnail, but whatever stupid lazy AI generation

[@patrickstevens2473]

cringe

[@DatRebelDawg]

His brother Billy, Jimmy accomplished nothing except world misery

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[@Rojass91]

I guess this is the best story they could find about his embarrassing presidency.

[@markmeadows7569]

He did what he could.

[@DasYorgo4000]

Embarrassing? He did more good in 5 minutes of his life than you will ever do in your entire life.

[@jack_waterman]

It's his fault American beer sucks?

[@TheMercilessEye]

You've obviously never had a craft beer.

[@TOM7952]

Did you watch the video? Quite the opposite.

[@MojoXC]

Bruh, he saved American beer with craft beers

[@bobweiss8682]

No, it is because of him that American beer no longer sucks like it did in the 1970s......