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Post by coppice on Dec 20, 2010 7:45:48 GMT -5
It looks like WV has passed a set of laws permitting legal mini distilleries to be set up. Are there any other states? I'm living now in apalachia, but am unsure I wanna commute to WV to learn the trade.
Still anything that was true about making this value-added product in 18th century, is still true today.
I'm too old fat and slow to try to be a bootlegger. But I'm piqued. lets see it only took 50 years to legalise beer and wine in small lot production, and another 30 to have mini-distilleries.
Maybe there is a future for us out in the boonies...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2010 13:36:04 GMT -5
I think this is a good think only in that it is a chance that people who are doing backyard distilling will start doing the job right.
I still think it is illegal for a person to distill at a Federal level, but, I live in CA, so what can I say.
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Post by coppice on Dec 20, 2010 15:55:39 GMT -5
I would expect that a mini distillery tax money spends as well as any others.
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Post by w8in4dave on Dec 20, 2010 22:39:54 GMT -5
What??? It's against the Law?? LOL
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Post by rintintin on Dec 23, 2010 1:21:47 GMT -5
Do their laws allow it for sale? Or strictly for 'home consumption'? Therein lies the distinction. If it is for sale, just try to imagine what kind of Federal hoops you would need to jump through to keep operating. I once worked on a ship that carried alcohol, and every opening, pipe, valve, etc that had access to those tanks had Fed seals on them. At EACH port we stopped at enroute, the Feds came aboard and inspected ALL seals and access points. Alcohol Tax is a significant form of revenue.
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Post by coppice on Dec 23, 2010 9:34:18 GMT -5
Well the link I found onna google search made oblique mention of their jumping through both state and federal hoops. The newly hatched law that permitted it made mention of WV law that made it a requirement that most of the spirits be made in and of WV grown materials. (and not a mostly mass produced neutral grain spirit flavored by a spritz of local hootch.)
And I concur with rintintin ATF as an agency-department is a possee particularly devoid of any sence of humor.
At a 100 mile distance it looked to me like they were painting inside the lines. In this day and age of states budgets being in meltdown stage, maybe their local legislature did some of the heavy lifting. This might even have been at their own liquor commissions heft. I dunno.
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Post by coppice on Dec 23, 2010 9:52:12 GMT -5
I think this is a good think only in that it is a chance that people who are doing backyard distilling will start doing the job right. If state or federal liquor police really wanna get rid of bootlegging, this is the way to do it. I concur its also one way to get a board of health through the place to do some kinda sanitary policing. Don't want dead squirrels in the wort tubs? Get the food police to inspect the joint.
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Post by coppice on Dec 23, 2010 12:40:03 GMT -5
Here is one link: www.ellenjaye.com/wh_isaiahmorgan.htmThere was right next to it ona google search with key words "mini distillery" that has chapter and verse for VW statute, for them that want to read liquor commission bafflegab. Link works.
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