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06-03-2010, 07:02 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Puerto Rico
Posts: 111
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Impossible Quest! Selling homebrew!
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Hello guys,
today i called a goverment office that is responsible of helping people to make new business. I was given an email, and i explained thru that email that im producing beer at a very small scale. it would be possible to sell it at a local veggie market, but i would like to make it legally.
I would like to brew as an Artisan... like many wood carvers, or Mavi (maubi) brewers. It should be possible.... 
im waiting for their reply...i would still sell my "traditional fermented drinks" no matter what they say...
Last edited by echotraveler; 06-03-2010 at 07:06 PM.
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06-03-2010, 07:06 PM
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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: "Detroitish" Michigan
Posts: 36,051
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I don't know how it is in Puerto Rico, but it is really difficult and expensive to do it here.
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06-03-2010, 07:08 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Bend, Oregon
Posts: 3,169
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I know they have been relaxing the law for winemakers in some of the states but haven't heard anything about homebrew.
Good luck.
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06-03-2010, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Posts: 13,402
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..i would still sell my "traditional fermented drinks" no matter what they say...
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Federal Excise tax.
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06-03-2010, 07:34 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Posts: 13,402
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06-03-2010, 07:41 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Puerto Rico
Posts: 111
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THANX OLLLLLO! i appreciate it! its 3:40 governmental employees here stop answering phones at 3:30...they'r not supposed to do that but thats how its done....
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06-03-2010, 10:29 PM
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Cranky Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Willamina & Oak Grove, Oregon, USA
Posts: 24,799
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Government employees answer phones in PR? How do you rate that?
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06-04-2010, 01:34 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Lakeland TN
Posts: 3,524
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I'm reading my way through "Starting Your Own Brewery".
Depending on the state, it is complex, but not really that hard. With the internet, at least you can find the information you need in most cases. It does take a bit of money up front.
I would imagine it was much more difficult back in the day.
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06-04-2010, 02:54 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Cooper City, Florida
Posts: 242
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You should research Nano-Breweries. I listened to a podcast (available free on itunes) and the main thing that you cannot do is distribute and retail. You have to be wholesale. So you would need to look into not only Nanobrewing, but how you would get around disto and retail. Lots of licenses.
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06-04-2010, 04:37 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Keller, Texas
Posts: 3,231
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Quote:
Originally Posted by david_42
Government employees answer phones in PR? How do you rate that?
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It's a trick -- phone lines don't work in PR. All calls sound like non-stop static.
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