The growing phenomenon of craft beer in America is slowly seeping into the culture of Mississippi, a state long held hostage by antiquated beer laws limiting consumers’ choices as to what beer one may enjoy.

Raise Your Pints Mississippi has been lobbying state leaders for three years trying to get changes to the law to mirror 49 other states, but measures to up the alcohol content level in beer and introduce a home brewing bill have continually failed to make it out of committee in the state Legislature.