keatz85
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Was thinking about selling bottles and kegs of home brew to local liquor stores and bars. How do you go about doing that? Would start off pretty small. Wouldnt be too much going out. Do you need license or anything else?
A member of the homebrew club I'm a member of here in the south Chicago suburbs is opening a nanobrewery - the licensing isn't that high, need to build a brewery that isn't in or attached to your home, I believe.
Jacksonville is right by Springfield, you know, the capital of IL haha? Believe it or not we're not that hillbilly, you'd get got quick, it's not like Tennessee moonshine haha. I'm not that serious yet, was just curious b/c this whole "working" thing is overrated.
Your best bet would be to talk to the Prairie Schooner members in Springfield. The new brew pub Obed and Isaac's was opened by 2 of our members. Also the recently opened Rolling Meadows Brewery started from homebrewing roots. These are your two pathways and they are both expensive but doable. Good luck. Oh and @ Grinnan, it's Central Illinois, try looking at a map. We really get tired of being called southern illinois and plus it offends the Carbondale (actual Southern Illinois) folks to no end.....
Your best bet would be to talk to the Prairie Schooner members in Springfield. The new brew pub Obed and Isaac's was opened by 2 of our members. Also the recently opened Rolling Meadows Brewery started from homebrewing roots. These are your two pathways and they are both expensive but doable. Good luck. Oh and @ Grinnan, it's Central Illinois, try looking at a map. We really get tired of being called southern illinois and plus it offends the Carbondale (actual Southern Illinois) folks to no end.....
I don't know where Jacksonville, IL is but I am guessing it is southern Illinois. If that's the case no one will probably ever be the wiser if you sell it. If you are north of I-80 me thinks you'll have some 'splainin' to do to the authorities.
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I am assuming that the part of your post quoted above is intended to be humorous.
1. Jacksonville is in Illinois. It's about an hour and a half West of us. It is very, very real. The world doesn't end at Homewood or Matteson.
2. We have TVs, flush toilets, the Internet and everything down here now. We can afford that because of the lower cost of living; less of our income has to go to support the Dukedom of Rahm. We seldom have to fight pitched battles with the barbarian hordes or the zombies any more.
3. The authorities would be every bit as interested in someone trying to sell homebrew illegally down here as they would North of I-80.
4. RDWAHAHB
rico567 said:I am assuming that the part of your post quoted above is intended to be humorous.
1. Jacksonville is in Illinois. It's about an hour and a half West of us. It is very, very real. The world doesn't end at Homewood or Matteson.
2. We have TVs, flush toilets, the Internet and everything down here now. We can afford that because of the lower cost of living; less of our income has to go to support the Dukedom of Rahm. We seldom have to fight pitched battles with the barbarian hordes or the zombies any more.
3. The authorities would be every bit as interested in someone trying to sell homebrew illegally down here as they would North of I-80.
4. RDWAHAHB
In Illinois you need a license but if you only produce a certain amount you don't have to go through a distributor. I believe this law was passed last year.
I have no particular interest in making beer commercially, and all I had to do was type "Illinois self distribute" into Google and it came up with the Brewers Association page that lists laws by state. Google is your friend.
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