Selling homebrew through local pub

[duboman]

I'm a little lazy to read all 6 pages of this thread, but would forming a nano brewery be easier?

http://www.ttb.gov/beer/beer-faqs.shtml#b10

Sorry if this has been touched on - add and whatnot.

Not to be an ****** but if you're too lazy to read through this post there's no way you'll navigate what's required to open a brewery, nano or mega, they all have to play by the same rules

 

[Toga]

My local brewery also has a homebrew shop attached to it. I think it would be a great marketing tool to have one homebrewer per month brew up a pilot batch and sell it in the tasting room. Of course it would have to be brewed on their pilot system vs. your home system. It would encourage people to get into the hobby since they can taste how good "homebrew" can be.

What used to be my favorite homebrew shop was also a mini brewery and tasting room. Once a month at each homebrew club meeting we would vote on the best beer of the night and the member that had the winner of the night would come in and brew it at the pub on their system. The beer would be featured on the "guest" tap. The guest tap always had a brew that a member of the club devised and or brewed.

 

[Oddball]

The OP is in Ohio, on a board based in the US, so the assumption is we are talking about US laws. So not sure where Oddball's friend is located, but as far as the points of this thread, it is illeagle to sale homebrew to in the United States, and since he said the State his friend is in, not province or territory, then I am going to assume his firend is in the US. So if you don't want your friend to get in trouble, you need to tell him to find a lawyer to find the best course to get the proper license, or to stop selling home made alcohol

Just to clear up any confusion...Yes I am in Canada, but like you said I was talking about a friend in the States. I will talk to him next time I am there (two weeks) because I really want to know more of the details of exactly what he was told by the state. Maybe I misinterpreted what he said and sorry for getting testy. I had a few too many Guinnesses that night....

As a side note, there have been many threads like this on this site and if the conversation continues with ways to try and skirt the laws the Mods will close the thread as suggestions of illegal activity on this site are against the rules.

I think it is pretty clear that we weren't discussing skirting any laws related to selling beer. I only brought up what my friend was told by the state after contacting them about selling his homebrew in his bar and that was that he only needed a state permit to sell small quantities made on site.

 

[TwoJays]

Duboman certainly laid it out. I have been thinking a good while about the prospects of going pro and a large part of that involves studying the legal hurdles that lie ahead, of which there are quite a few. I would strongly urge your friend to research the federal rules involving alcohol sales because if someone wants to make an example out of him, they will. I would hate to hear of a fellow brewer's life being destroyed simply because they had a lack of information.