HERB - Distillations

Knaus, Robert F. robert.knaus at unisys.com
Tue May 9 08:13:50 PDT 2000


That may very well be the federal law.
However, states and local municipalities may further regulate alcohol.
(Hence the reason that some states have "dry" counties or cities, while
others do not.)

The laws I stated were for Texas, in general, although parts of Texas
(particularly around Dallas) are more restrictive.
Up in the Steppes, you will note a proliferation of liquor stores around
Richardson, Farmers Branch, Addison, etc. . . . I don't recall which
municipality is the dry one, but the stores are clustered about 100 yards
across the boundary.  8-)

Oklahoma (where I lived previously) allows up to 100 gallons of alcohol
production per household per year (if I recall correctly), but they are very
restrictive about transportation - which is what can get SCA folks into
trouble.  In addition, transporting across state lines can be a problem for
folks in Texas or Oklahoma going to Ansteorran events in the other state.
Texas is more lenient about transport (provided you don't go through a dry
county or municipality) but I believe they do not allow as much to be made.
Have to check on that.
Probably the best resource for alcohol laws in Texas and Oklahoma would be
our previous brew guildmaster, Pug.
You might check with him - pug at pug.net

Al-yesari

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Temple [mailto:noxcat at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 9:57 AM
To: robert.knaus at unisys.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: HERB - citing, ahem, newage mater ials in handouts...



>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)
>

<SNIP>

> >><<
> >>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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