With all due respect to Homebrewtastic, Revvy, and my fellow homebrewers. This is what I think about that statute.
Well, tough. DO you think any of us like it? Don't you think we'd all love to sell beer and be the next Sam Caligone without having to jump through the same hurdles as they did...Seriously? Why get pissed at us because we understand the law and the history behind it? Just because we understand it, and respect it like any law abiding citizens, it doesn't mean we like it.
It never ceases to amaze me, how this is idea that it could be illegal is so foreign to people. I mean technically you can't bake bread or cookies in your kitchen and legally sell them without jumping through a huge amount of state, federal and municipal hurdles, including just basic laws about health inspections and sanitization issue, why the HELL would you think selling alcohol would be easier?
You can't even have a bake sale without permits needing to be pulled, and liability insurance needing to be bought, and that's for a charity!
I'm sorry this is so hard for you to grasp, but it's alcohol we're talking about for chriminy sakes. Read Ambitious Brew or any history of prohibition to understand why laws are so prohibitive and in some places downright idiotic where booze sales and such are concerned.......Not only do you have the guvment not wanting us to sell homebrew without paying taxes, but you have the micro/macro lobby also not wanting us to legally sell homebrew, plus you have Madd, and Sadd, and many religuous organizations not wanting alcohol easily available....
Why does everybody get so pissy when we point out there's no loopholes? Is it because we're busting your dreams??? Then follow the rules, like Caligone and everyone else who's gone pro has....
Quit thinking you can run around the law, quit bitching at those of us who point out that there's no way around the law, no loophole, or anything.....if you really want to help, then try to change the laws....Write your congress people,
better yet become a congressperson. But quit thinking you can scheme your way through this. And quit getting pissy at those of us who've seen a million threads like this on here, and a million dreams of going pro that never amount to anything.....If it was so easy, you don't think we'd all be doing it already.