[Homebrewers] Fw: Re: Santa Cruz home-brewer arrested after making poppy beer

[Craig Zangari]

--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Chris Miller <chris at chrismiller.com> wrote:

> From: Chris Miller <chris at chrismiller.com>
> Subject: Re: Santa Cruz home-brewer arrested after making poppy beer
> To: "Anthony DeFerrari" <afdeferrari at yahoo.com>
> Cc: members at draughtboard.org, friends at draughtboard.org
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 10:30 AM
> Anthony DeFerrari wrote:
> > Ok, call me a bleeding heart liberal.  But screwing up
> a persons life, spending probably 50k per year for seven
> years for what.  Was anyone hurt?  Yea doing it was probably
> not so bright, talking about it was probably less bright,
> but as a society we can't afford to toss him in prison. 
> Were to busy blowing hundreds of billions of dollars to save
> wall street.....
> >
> > While I'm on line (and to see who made it through
> my rant)  anyone want to venture an opinion on dry hopping
> (legal hop's of course)?
> >   
> 
> I'm jaded by the famed "Cops" episode where
> the stupid cop (not all of
> them, just that one) saw a wort chiller and said it was a
> "still", and
> further more that "one wrong step and you'll go
> blind". Clearly this cop
> didn't have a fucking clue about any of the subject
> matter, brewing or
> distilling. I typically suspect this element in any story
> such as this
> poppy incident.
> 
> If they indeed found residue that proves he was processing
> the poppy goo
> into a drug, well he's fucked. Kinda stupid to make
> morphine ale... If
> he was simply flavoring the beer then this is just another
> case of The
> Man(tm) trying to sensationalize something they don't
> understand. The
> problem is that they've made such a big public display
> about this prior
> to all the facts being known, it's going to be hard for
> the court to put
> the genie back in the bottle because the cops are going to
> look stupid,
> and well we can't have that, can we?
> 
> One might ask how the cops even knew about this at all.
> Probably told
> too many friends and word got around town he's making
> heroin beer.
> Agreed though, this is a waste of tax payers money, if
> anything he
> deserves a slap on the wrist.
> 
> Chris