Home Distiller

i don't (yet) distill, and i'm not afraid to put the petition out there. the question is, i think, how to drive visibility/traffic to it... i'll put it up on one of the petition websites if you guys will actively get people to the site to sign it...

let me know.

-j

I have to imagine that my local homebrew shop would love it. They already sell stuff for making cheese, vinegar, etc. I'm sure they'd be delighted to sell distilling equipment. And, of course, people would jump in to start producing those products openly, and sales would be taxed. It's hard for me t...

Ah, I needed that smile.

In the process of trying to buy a house, but I will return to this. Please keep any and all advice coming. How do we turn a hobby into a movement?

(Think the NRA will help?)

Good points. Not sure where I got the "whereas" language. I think I'd seen it in Congressional proclamations or something. Heard back from my congresswoman; different form letter this time: Thank you for your recent correspondence in which you express your views about an issue of major imp...

pumpman wrote:What be legal for beer and wine making probably aint enough for the home distiller to play with but it is a start.

Yeah, I thought about that, and then I remembered that nobody's counting how much home winemakers and beer brewers actually make in any given year...

Not harsh at all; I welcome the comments. That's why I posed here before going to petitionspot.com or where ever. I want to do this, and I want to do it right.

Thanks!

After emailing my congresswoman (Sheila Jackson Lee) to ask whether she would sponsor a bill to legalize home distilling, I got back a form letter thanking me for my interest in health care reform. :x That got me thinking that maybe a petition would be a better way to go. I drafted some language. Pl...