Albertastorm
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Does anyone know.....is it legal to setup brewing equipment at my house and let my friends brew with it?
Can you elaborate a bit? Would the beer ferment at your house too? All together do you imagine brewing more than 200 gallons (assuming you a spouse)?
Why would it be illegal?
Huh? You mean invite some friends over to homebrew with you? If so of course it's legal
So if I have 10 friends we can brew 2000 gallons?
If you end up brewing say 500 gallons and don't throw up any red flags for anyone to look at what you are doing the govt isn't going to care, but I doubt 2000 gallons will go unnoticed and when you get to doing that much and start charging a "rental fee" you may be running into some issues
Albertastorm said:Not trying to get rich here...just trying to share equipment costs...and buy ingredients in bulk to save money for all.
And have some fun!
But spending some time in the slammer is not an option for me...I'm very attractive
Even if it is illegal, how on earth would anyone find out? Surely the authorities have bigger fish to fry?
I cant see why sharing equipment would be illegal. But I'm not sure if the 200 gallon limit is per person or per household. Honestly if you are starting out then reaching the limit even with friends would be a lot of time at your house brewing so I doubt you even need to worry about it now.
55 Gallon Brew Pots.....5- 40 gallon batches.
If you buy a 55lb bag of grain, I don't see why you couldn't sell your friend 10lb of it. As far as the limit goes, they could put the wort in a bucket/carboy and take it home and THEN pitch the yeast.
Good luck then! That is a whole lot to make at once at your house, but if you are determined then I'm sure it can be done. How many people do you have chipping in?
So if they take the bucket of wort off premise and add the yeast it wouldn't count toward the 200 gallon limit? This seems to make sense but I'm not sure what they mean by "brewing beer". Technically beer isn't brewed until it's been fermented.
I have 42 gallon conical...would be nice to ferment in one batch.
I have 42 gallon conical...would be nice to ferment in one batch.
Probably would have helped if you had mentioned that in the original post. You are probably a nanobrewery and potentially need to get some permits if you plan to use that more than 4 times.
I highly doubt any police or FDA IRS types will show up at your place and bust you. Unless you have big signs out front and an ad in the paper or something you should be fine. No one has any way of knowing how many gallons you've brewed. I couldn't care less for the yearly limit on making beer at home. I've surpassed it each of the past two years.
I highly doubt any police or FDA IRS types will show up at your place and bust you. Unless you have big signs out front and an ad in the paper or something you should be fine. No one has any way of knowing how many gallons you've brewed. I couldn't care less for the yearly limit on making beer at home. I've surpassed it each of the past two years.
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