I know you can't sell your homebrew. I was wondering if you could get paid my another person to home brew for them using your own equipment and your knowledge? I tried looking into it online and on here, but I didn't find anything.
I know you can't sell your homebrew. I was wondering if you could get paid my another person to home brew for them using your own equipment and your knowledge? I tried looking into it online and on here, but I didn't find anything.
It's essentially the same thing as buying LME or DME from a homebrew store, or a brewery giving you wort to ferment off-premise.
Treat it like craigslist. Don't sell enough of it to need to put it on your taxes.
Also the "no yeast" thing is a good idea.
I know you can't sell your homebrew. I was wondering if you could get paid my another person to home brew for them using your own equipment and your knowledge? I tried looking into it online and on here, but I didn't find anything.
All discussion below is not meant to belittle or argue with anyone. I 100% all the way understand the aspect of having to pay taxes for alcohol to the state and federal government if you are selling alcohol, thats completely kosher as far as I am concerned. I also would never do this where I would sell beer to a friend, theres a million excuses I can come up with to brew a batch for a friend and not expect payment in turn (brewed 4 gallons of a Bell's Hopslam Clone for a friends birthday which is NOT AT ALL a cheap beer to brew). EVERYONE likes beer as a birthday gift... except maybe someone in AA (maybe).
This whole discussion really makes the distinctions seem ridiculous. Does the friend legally have to stand there and pitch the yeast into the wort? If I take all my equipment over to a friends house, and they bought the ingredients, and paid me a labor cost per hour for brewing it, and I pitched the yeast into the wort at their house, does that suddenly make it *my* beer I'm *selling* to the person? Mostly rhetorical questions, I don't want anyone to think I am arguing with them.
Agree contractually to mow his lawn for $50 a mow. When you brew, take a pair of scissors and cut a couple blades of grass and collect your money. Then to celebrate your guys' successful business arrangement, gift him 50 bottles of homebrew.
Except for the part where they have to buy the license and pay the taxes for selling it to you.
It's perfectly legal for you to make money selling things. When you file your taxes it is a very simple process to report your earnings.
Oddly nobody's asked yet...
Is this "other person" someone you know well, like a friend or relative? Or are we talking about stranger(s)?
And is this some kind of one-time or occasional thing you're talking about, or are you planning to make a living at it?
Of course if the OP and his buddy are smart and don't do the transaction in front of the cops/ATF agents and keep their mouths shut no one is going to break down their doors looking for the "illegal" wort/beer.
You mean like if they don't advertise it on the internet?
Seriously though. This is a common topic, and in general its about skirting rules. I don't like reading any of these threads on this site, as I think we should all be ambassadors to homebrewing and now that it's legal in all 50 states, keep it that way by not being a community of rule-skirters that draws the attention of regulators.
Thinks that's unrealistic? I'll tell you from first hand experience, a single call from a campground security guard to the local ABC office was the catalyst for the cancellation of the SoCal Homebrew Fest this year. There's plenty of pencil pushers just dying to lord their power over someone, anyone, and especially anyone who thinks they can flaunt the power of said pencil pushers.
Well I was just wondering
Well I was just wondering
And I was just responding to your post. You're not always gonna get an answer you might like, but at least you're allowed to ask.
I don't think you're a bad guy or anything, I just think this topic merits an honest and direct answer.
And I was just responding to your post. You're not always gonna get an answer you might like, but at least you're allowed to ask.
I don't think you're a bad guy or anything, I just think this topic merits an honest and direct answer.
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