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MODERATOR's NOTE and WARNING:
I'm going to allow this thread as long as the discussion remains on topic, civil, informative, and merely hypothetical, and doesn't escalate into actually selling or promoting to sell beer, legally or illegally.
Anyone grazing or crossing those boundaries will be eligible for a vacation from HBT.
I'm keeping a close eye on this thread.
IslandLizard,
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Great time of year to get fresh vegetables from farmers markets and the Amish. They have stands everywhere.
They also sell baked goods, and at the weekend markets... home roasted/ground coffees... hot chocolate... lemonade... all kinds of ingestable ware.
But not beer. Oh no. Can't do that.
It's public safety right? Can't have someone making people sick? Well... as we all know, it certainly isn't public safety. The chance of getting sick, even really sick, are infinitely higher eating someone's baked goods/food than drinking someone's home brewed beer. The chance of getting sick from beer is almost non-existent. As most here know, virtually no known pathogens can exist in beer. The PH is too low, and...well.. it contains alcohol.
So, what else then? And why enforced so vigorously? I mean you can't make money in ANY way from home brew. Including bartering.
In my state there are two kinds of brewery license - small and large. But small is not really small.
I want a license for TINY.
Why doesn't there exist a license in which you can sell beer, but only very small amounts. Let's say you can't sell more than 120 gallons a year. Or 10 gals a month. And getting that license should be much-much easier than getting even the "small" license which requires, as we all know, many hurdles and expenses.
We need to advocate for a tiny alcohol license.
I'm going to allow this thread as long as the discussion remains on topic, civil, informative, and merely hypothetical, and doesn't escalate into actually selling or promoting to sell beer, legally or illegally.
Anyone grazing or crossing those boundaries will be eligible for a vacation from HBT.
I'm keeping a close eye on this thread.
IslandLizard,
HBT Moderator
__________________
Great time of year to get fresh vegetables from farmers markets and the Amish. They have stands everywhere.
They also sell baked goods, and at the weekend markets... home roasted/ground coffees... hot chocolate... lemonade... all kinds of ingestable ware.
But not beer. Oh no. Can't do that.
It's public safety right? Can't have someone making people sick? Well... as we all know, it certainly isn't public safety. The chance of getting sick, even really sick, are infinitely higher eating someone's baked goods/food than drinking someone's home brewed beer. The chance of getting sick from beer is almost non-existent. As most here know, virtually no known pathogens can exist in beer. The PH is too low, and...well.. it contains alcohol.
So, what else then? And why enforced so vigorously? I mean you can't make money in ANY way from home brew. Including bartering.
In my state there are two kinds of brewery license - small and large. But small is not really small.
I want a license for TINY.
Why doesn't there exist a license in which you can sell beer, but only very small amounts. Let's say you can't sell more than 120 gallons a year. Or 10 gals a month. And getting that license should be much-much easier than getting even the "small" license which requires, as we all know, many hurdles and expenses.
We need to advocate for a tiny alcohol license.
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