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Hop City Craft Beer & Wine is located in downtown Birmingham.

(Alex Walsh | Alabama Media Group)

Hop City Craft Beer & Wine, a Birmingham beer hub that once had thousands of dollars worth of inventory taken from its shelves, will get back to its original plan to sell home brew supplies early next week.

Home brewing became legal in Alabama yesterday,

The law, effective as soon as it was signed, allows residents of counties where alcohol is permitted to brew up to 15 gallons of beer or wine every three months.

Agents from the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board visited Hop City's Birmingham location in September, hours before the business planned on opening its doors to customers. "They've come into my store with three armed men and threatened to arrest my general manager on the grounds that we have supplies in the store that can be used to make beer," owner Kraig Torres

An attorney for ABC

Hops are a key beer ingredient.

Josh Terrell, a member of Hop City's regular staff, says the company is scheduled to receive all the necessary supplies next Tuesday, May 14. "We'll have everything -- grains, hops, yeast," he said. It might take another business day for the store to prepare the new inventory for sale.

For those amateur home brewers starting from scratch, Hop City will sell starter kits for roughly $125.

Alabrew Homebrewing Supplies, a separate home brew supply company located in Pelham, says it will not change its business practices significantly following the new legislation.

This story was updated at 5:38 p.m. to revise pricing information.