SC - legal woggism, was Rose water question

[Marilyn Traber]

http://cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/caveman/projects/alcohol/
This site seems to be some form of lecture given by somebody, but it is way cool.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/27/204.html
If you want to get a license to distill, here are the hoops you have to jump
through

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/27/214.html
to make this stuff....

http://batf.net/
and you just gotta read this page...frightening!

http://www.beerinfo.com/brewstr/legal.html
helpful for those of us who homebrew

and finally for all of us legal-wogs, the ultimate[other than findlaws cases and
codes page...]
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/alcohol_tobacco.html

There, I hope this willbe enlightening, fun, thought provoking and baffling to
all, and to all a good night.
margali
i really gotto stop doing this at this hour of the morning...
at least without too much hemoglobin in my caffein system!


> > There are similar amounts up to which it is legal for a homebrewer to
> >  make for personal consumption, which in most cases even active SCA
> >  brewers don't exceed.  I don't know the amounts, but remember thinking
> >  that it would cover anything I ever wanted to do nicely.
> >  Christianna
>
> This comes up occasionally. You can brew or vint up to 200 gallons last I
> heard. So far as I know distilling is a no no without some kind of permit,
> and their scarce since the Reagan administration dropped the alternative fuel
> research.
>
> I always ask this question when somebody says what you just sent. Please
> please PLEASE give me a written source that says officially I can distill,
> even a small amount. I'd love it. Do you have such a source? Otherwise, I'm
> looking at about six months in jail for the first offense last I heard. This
> comes up with startling regularity in the brewing list, and nobody's given me
> an official source yet. In fact just the opposite. When they contact the BATF
> they say don't even consider the possibility. This may be bureaucratic
> ignorance, saying no if they don't know officially it's yes. Your mileage may
> vary, but given the way they react, I'm going to take the coward's way out.
>
> Corwyn

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