What's happening in my world…
I will be heading to back to city that inspired “America the Beautiful“.
I will be heading over to Stout Night at Bristol to try out the stout beers of Colorado Springs.
Karen will be joining me for some of this trip which will be sweet! For the times when she not with me in Colorado, we will be working the video chat.
My friends at Free The Hops have their bill introduced in both houses of the Alabama State Legislature. Here is the anouncement from Free The Hops site:
The Gourmet Beer Bill has been introduced to both the Alabama Senate and House. This bill would raise the alcohol by volume limit on beer in Alabama to that of wine, making legal the sale of literally thousands of gourmet and specialty beers already legal in 46 other states and around the world. FTH asks that you contact your Senator and Representative today to ask them to Vote Yes for SB390 and HB530.
Here is the specific part of the Alabama Code that we are trying to change:
BEER, or MALT OR BREWED BEVERAGES. Any beer, lager beer, ale, porter, malt or brewed beverage, or similar fermented malt liquor containing one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume and not in excess of five percent alcohol by weight and six fourteen and nine-tenths percent by volume, by whatever name the same may be called.
Both versions are identical and you can read them here:
House Version: HB530
Senate Version: SB390
Karen and I put in for our first stay within the Disney Vacation Club. We are planning on staying at the Saratoga Springs Resort for the International Food & Wine Festival.
We used the club's new online reservation request system. I hope everything goes smoothly.
We going to be trying out what DVC calls a One-Bedroom Vacation Home. You can see the layout here on the right. I would say that it is like an Embassy Suites Hotel room, but it is a little nice and better equipped.
We are hoping to get some of Karen family to join us on our trip. I hope they can join us.