Texas Home Brewing Laws?!
Answers: If a person was thinking of starting their own brewing company in the state of Texas, what are the state laws & regs concerning this? I had heard somewhere that a person was allowed to brew a certain amount of beer per year without a license, but I can't find the reference anywhere.
Typically "home brewing" refers to brewing your own beer or wine for personal use. According to US law, you're permitted to brew 100 gallons of beer without having to pay taxes, per adult of legal drinking age in the household, up to 200 gallons total.
http://www.ttb.gov/beer/25_205.htm
The same applies to making wine:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/...
However, as soon as you intend to sell it, you need to comply with federal and state regulations. Contrary to popular belief, ATF (bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) is not the agency that handles this. It's actually TTB (alcohol and tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau).
http://www.ttb.gov
...and with regards to actually selling your beer:
http://www.ttb.gov/beer/faqs.shtml#b3
Now, if you're new to brewing beer yourself, by all means give it a go on your own. Give it to friends to try and to critique, and join a local home brewing club if there is one nearby. Most importantly, don't sell any. There are workarounds to this...if your friends buy the ingredients for you, there's no law against that.
Completely unrelated (but I find it interesting) here is a gallery of hundreds of home breweries around the world:
http://www.brewzilla.nl/brewhalla.htm
Federal law allows you to make 200 gallons of beer or wine a year, as the head of a house hold. Most states have passed laws with similar limits. I understand that Texas has some dry counties. It would probably be illegal in those places. Talk to your state board of liquor control.
check with - your - Department of Alcohol Beverage Control. (ATF - - FDA)
In California 40 gal / beer or wine per year "" for personal family use"" That may be a Fed law also (??)
making a brewing company>>> you don't stand a chance.
I heard some contests at
http://www.samualadams.com
get put into production.