How much homebrew can we legally have in our home?

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Just wondering if anybody knows a good resource to find out how much home brew(wine and beer) we can legally have in our homes. I live in MN
 
I don;t believe actually storage of beer is mentioned in the law, just how many gallons brewed annually. Not how much you have on hand at one time.

Sec. 25.205
Production


(a) Any adult may produce beer, without payment of tax, for personal or family use and not for sale. An adult is any individual who is 18 years of age or older. If the locality in which the household is located requires a greater minimum age for the sale of beer to individuals, the adult shall be that age before commencing the production of beer. This exemption does not authorize the production of beer for use contrary to state or local law.

(b) The production of beer per household, without payment of tax, for personal or family use may not exceed:

(1) 200 gallons per calendar year if there are two or more adults residing in the household, or (2) 100 gallons per calendar year if there is only one adult residing in the household.
(c) Partnerships except as provided in Sec. 25.207, corporations or associations may not produce beer, without payment of tax, for personal or family use.


(Sec. 201, Pub. L. 85-859, 72 Stat. 1334, as amended (26 U.S.C. 5053))
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Here are the legislation links form another thread.


http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d095:HR01337:@@@L&summ2=m&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing
http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/government-affairs/statutes
http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/government-affairs/statutes/united-states
http://breweryreviewery.com/?p=67
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...wOcS6yeuA&sig2=r1ha8ELJZT3gK5shGyICLg&cad=rja
http://beerinbaltimore.blogspot.com/2010/08/let-me-get-this-straight-jimmy-carter.html
 
crash1292 said:
fed law is 100gals/per legal drinking age person
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That is how much you can produce in a year.

And it is not per person. It is limited to producing 100 gallons per year for a single-person residence. If there are two or more people in the residence, then it is 200 gallons per year.
 
Who is going to check? And how would
"they" know WHERE to check? Unless someone dropped a dime.................
 
Of course none of us would ever consider brewing more than 200 gallons a year (2 adult household). What you have stored was brewed over several years if it is more than that.

Realistically... think about it.. the purpose of those laws is ALWAYS to make sure someone gets their cut of any commercial activity. If you are not selling you're brew you will most likely be fine. I wouldn't store more than 200 G though as I fear our overlords... it won't matter until someone in power decides to F you and finds out a way to show you've made more than your limit. don't talk.. and leave no evidence.
 
Maybe you can rig a doomsday switch to quickly dump all of the beer if the Feds ever come knocking... :D
 
Thanks all. I was just curious. I only do about 10 gallons of wine a year and there is no way I will be doing 190+ in beer, yet.
 
Seven said:
Maybe you can rig a doomsday switch to quickly dump all of the beer if the Feds ever come knocking... :D
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Like when Dillon McKay came over and saved David Silver's butt by making him dump all those drugs right before the Donna and Kelly's beach apartment got raided?
 
HA HA HA! Damn you, AZ IPA for making me realize that I can visualize a particular 90210 episode.
 
I have no idea why or where it started but we had a 90210 drinking game in college. You pick a character and whenever they talk, you drink. Sometimes when you picked an obscure person, it didn't work out so well. I guess all kinds of crazy crap sounds like a good idea in college.
 
I'm gonna refrain from making disparaging remarks about masculinity and 90210 references......

I'm just sayin....

:rolleyes:

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:)
 
cmon Revvy, you watched it, if you had any affiliation with a female in the 90's it wasn't an option...:)
 
Good thing I started in August! We will hit 200 in December. Still legal pigs...! Go eat a donut or something....
 
AZ_IPA said:
Like when Dillon McKay came over and saved David Silver's butt by making him dump all those drugs right before the Donna and Kelly's beach apartment got raided?
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Holycr@p that just made me feel really old that was on when I first met the wife. She was addicted to the show. :off:
 
After the summer I had that is not enough beer, and I would have to make about 3 batches a week for the rest of the year to get there.:D
 
As someone else pointed out the regulations cover production.....not storage. I don't know why you would want to but it appears that you could store over 200 gallons ( barrel project?). Even the production limit would be impossible to investigate unless someone literally had pro brewing set up and was cranking out thousands of gallons.
 

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