Yes, this is about brewing.
Last night, I scrambled to get out of work on time (I had been working longer days for the past few weeks), in order to ship two bottles of my original recipe (4:1 Maris Otter/Choco Rye; Amarillo, and Safale S-04). Entries had to be in by today, and I had been in New Jersey for the past week or so. After packaging my beer, I took the box to UPS, who informed me that they wouldn't ship it. After wasting an hour of my life, and after making vague death threats to the poor sap on the UPS customer service line, I finally learned that shipping beer is illegal, unless you have a wholesale liquor license, and that the ATF would impose a $15,000 fine on you, if you even thought about doing it.
Because I have no desire to pay the government any amount of money, for any conceivable reason, I have to ask: how do you do this, without getting, at best, rejected, and, at worst, arrested?
Last night, I scrambled to get out of work on time (I had been working longer days for the past few weeks), in order to ship two bottles of my original recipe (4:1 Maris Otter/Choco Rye; Amarillo, and Safale S-04). Entries had to be in by today, and I had been in New Jersey for the past week or so. After packaging my beer, I took the box to UPS, who informed me that they wouldn't ship it. After wasting an hour of my life, and after making vague death threats to the poor sap on the UPS customer service line, I finally learned that shipping beer is illegal, unless you have a wholesale liquor license, and that the ATF would impose a $15,000 fine on you, if you even thought about doing it.
Because I have no desire to pay the government any amount of money, for any conceivable reason, I have to ask: how do you do this, without getting, at best, rejected, and, at worst, arrested?