HERB - citing, ahem, newage mater ials in handouts...

[Rauthulfr]

The laws on distillation did manage to get changed, unfortunately, or 
fortunately.  And one of the things I discovered was that the current law 
also covers freeze-distillation!  So don't leave that wine in the freezer 
too long to cool, or the ATF folks may come a beating through your door!

YIS
Rauthulfr

At 11:31 PM 5/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>When Daddy began making home-brewed beer (in the early 70's as I recall),
>he claimed to have looked into the laws involved.  He said that a head of
>household could make up to some quantity of beer and/or wine and *up to 1
>gallon of distilled liquor* per year per adult of drinking age in the
>household.  Now he did not tell me the source of his information, and at
>the time I did not care.  But he was usually pretty cautious about things
>like that, very careful to stay within the law, and he planned on
>distilling some of his wine, though he never did.  I don't think those
>laws get changed much, so I wonder if he was correct in what he said.
>Also, this was in Arkansas, which might be different (no Arkansas jokes,
>now) but I thought he said that was the Federal law.  How could we find
>out for sure?  One gallon would be more than enough for an A&S
>project.....
>
>Suzanna, herbalist, Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra (Dallas,
>TX)
>
>On Mon, 8 May 2000 14:00:59 -0500  "Knaus, Robert F."
><robert.knaus at unisys.com> writes:
>...snip...
> >In most of the US (and here in Texas to be sure) both are regulated.
> >Brewing is allowed for home manufacture as long as it is not sold, and
>only
> >limited quantities are made (presumably for home use).  Distillation,
>being
> >by nature a more dangerous process - both in the methods and in the
>products
> >- is verboten without a license.  Brewing licenses are fairly expensive.
>  Distilling licenses are prohibitively so.
> >There are several breweries and wineries in Texas, there has been
>exactly
> >one (1) distillery - and that within the last year.  Since Texas has had
>these same laws (or variations upon) for quite some
> >time, these numbers indicate that the laws intent has been fulfilled.
> >Distillation (at least legal distillation) has been more or less
>squashed.
> >
> >Al-yesari
> >(darn it, distillation is period for me - my culture did name it!)
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mary Temple [mailto:noxcat at hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 1:32 PM
> >To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
> >Subject: Distillation vs. brewingRe: HERB - citing, ahem, newage
> >materials in handouts...
> >
> >
> >Because brewing and distillation are different processes. From an
> >alcohol
> >standpoint, one usually distills something that is already alcoholic,
> >thereby making it more alcoholic. Alcohol being a toxic drug, it is
> >highly
> >regulated.
> >
> >Lady Katerine Rowley
> >Bryn Gwlad, Ansteorra
> >mka
> >Mary K. Temple
> >Austin, Texas (where we've had several alcohol poisoning deaths in the
> >past
> >couple of years.)
> >
> >>Now a ? for you.  You said:
> >>
> >><<
> >>it is illegal in
> >>the US to
> >>make sweet waters by distillation
> >>(because of the alcohol
> >>component),
> >> >>
> >>?  People can brew their own mead, wine, etc. for their own
> >>use, so why not this?  Please enlighten me.
> >>
> >>Serian
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