Its ready.

[emd023]

I have my beer ready to go and I want to sell it. I would like to sell it in 24oz cans. How do I go about doing this? is it better to get my own canning machine or should I get someone else to do it for me?

 

[l1ranger]

is this for real?

 

[emd023]

yes

 

[JifeLacket]

Is this the same person that put their sanitizer water in their primary? lol someone check IP's please.

 

[BrookdaleBrew]

It is illegal to sell homebrew.

 

[Revvy]

So have you filed your paperwork with the Federal, State and Local authorities to become a legal brewery then? I kinda of thought that packaging decisions and label approval had to be made at the same time.

Otherwise it is illegal in any way shape or form to sell, trade or barter with HOMEBREW.

 

[mlyday]

Here we go again.....

 

[Germelli1]

We need more info about the liscenses you have obtained to be able to sell it in order to help you.

Until then I am just going to keep laughing at you

 

[gregiscool]

I have trouble giving my home brew away, my friends think im making moonshine in my closet lol.

 

[emd023]

I would like to sell it. Is there a guide on here that can help me get started?

 

[mlyday]

Instead of paying someone to can it for you, just put it in old soup cans with saran wrap over the top and a rubber band. The tricky part is getting the rubberband tight enough for the beer to carb up.

:>

 

[emd023]

ok thanks for the help ********

 

[IrregularPulse]

To get started, you need to contact your local government about the laws that apply to you and how to go about contacting the federal agencies involved.

Also keep in mind this is a homebrewing community. You may want to check out probrewers.com. They're the ones doing this for a living. We follow two laws here. 1) Keep it under 100 Gallons per year per person in a household up to 200 gallons per year. 2) Don't try to sell it.

This question comes up at least once a month with someone who just brewed their first beer and thinks they can just drop it off at the local bar and start collecting cash. If you're looking to start a business of brewing beer, you need to do a lot of research. How to get it into cans is several months of work and likely several thousand dollars away. Try giving your beer away first. and If this is your first batch, you're likely not to the point of selling yet.

Nobody is trying to be an *******, they're just trying to bring you back to reality.

 

[KayaBrew]

I would like to sell it. Is there a guide on here that can help me get started?

Dude, Google it. Seriously.

 

[emd023]

Ive been on google for 2 hours. Can someone just tell me the best way to get this stuff canned?

 

[mlyday]

ok thanks for the help ********

Relax were just having a little fun. If you use the search function on here youll see this comes up quite often. And for most people the cost and the regulations make it not worth the trouble.

 

[emd023]

TO get started, you need to contact your local government about the laws that apply to you and how to go about contacting the federal agencies involved.

Also keep in mind this is a homebrewing community. You may want to check out probrewers.com. They're the ones doing this for a living. We follow two laws here. 1) Keep it under 100 Gallons per year per person in a household up to 200 gallons per year. 2) Don't try to sell it.

thank you.

 

[mlyday]

Ive been on google for 2 hours. Can someone just tell me the best way to get this stuff canned?

Unless you have a big machine canning isnt possible. Bottling is easy. Any homebrew shop should have a bottle capper. Or the like of midwestsupply.com, austinhomebrew.com etc.

 

[emd023]

thanks ill check it out.

 

[mlyday]

And I dont think comercial beer can be brewed at your home.

 

[Revvy]

ok thanks for the help ********

Wow....Nice....

Before you can get it canned, you have to be a legal brewery. It is illegal to sell homebrew. You need to start here

http://www.ttb.gov/beer/qualify.shtml

That's the feds, you'll have to do your own googling for the state and loca liscensing you need to be able to sell your beer.

As to canning, there are very few cheap options form the microbrewer, and NONE for the homebrewer. The canning lines for commercial breweries usually start at a run of a minimum of 10,000 units if I recall.

I could provide you the link for that, but it would be useless to you unless you were already a incensed commercial brewery.

And I bet you you are as far from that as I am from having a threesome with twin Irish redhead pornstars. Because if you were liscened, you would probably have been contacted by all manner of bottling companies interested in having your business, and you would already KNOW how to get your beer canned.

 

[mlyday]

You might want to check this thread out.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/going-pro-whose-got-what-takes-54559/

 

[emd023]

Thank you guys. I got the info I needed.

 

[IrregularPulse]

Very nice link Revvy. My head hurts though. Thanks a lot

 

[MyNameIsPaul]

Mmmmm.....Irish Reds.....

 

[MyNameIsPaul]

Thank you guys. I got the info I needed.

Share with us what you found out as far as canning goes. Are you gonna' put it in mason jars and hide'em under your trailer porch so Boss Hogg don't see'em?

 

[mlyday]

I wonder how many of us get this idea, get a look at that page, then say to hell with it, im just happy to drink my own.

 

[emd023]

Im going to buy my own machine. I have someone to invest with me.

 

[mlyday]

Here is one company that sells them.

http://www.cask.com/main/index.php?page_id=9

 

[bob1852]

There's some info in this video