I think with the information that you provided that we will have no problems viewing your video amongst ourselves over the next ten days or so. And I don’t know if you saw my comment earlier this week that I left on your YouTube video site, but I had searched and watched a few on my own and had left your club a nice compliment – good production, well done. So no worries, we will certainly add yours to those to be reviewed.

I guess we are at the whims of the public internet services, or, to put it another way, we are getting what we pay for. Whether it was a “competitive” viewer trying to increase their chances of winning, a John Q. Public who has a hard-on for anything alcohol related, or a 7 year old that was just fooling around, I guess we will never know.

I will leave it to the AHA staff to determine if they want to try to contact someone at YouTube to see what their policy is, but based on what you spelled out below, the Masholes (hmmm, wait a minute – Houston, I think I might have found the offensive problem ;-) video was absolutely in the spirit we are seeking.

Again, we now have a link to make sure to include your club’s effort and will review it with the others that we find on YouTube. Perhaps you should try posting it again with some different information and see if it slips through the peculiar “filter” that it went through again.

Cheers!

Crispy Frey
AHA Governing Committee Chairman

(Seriously – nice video. I hope you win)

We got a few comments (some had to be removed unfortunately for the… umm colorful language…) about brewing being illegal. Perhaps that is a common misconception?

And let me just say, after reading the “violation notice” I’m disappointed in you. Instead of a debauchery & drug fueled animal beatdown you stick us with this high production value information fest? :-) Great video guys.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8j1tn/banned_by_youtube_because_homebrewing_is/

Thanks!

http://digg.com/food_drink/Banned_by_YouTube_because_homebrewing_is_inappropriate