Hello from Missouri
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Hello from Missouri
New to distilling looking forward to learning this great skill. Awesome site with lots of info!
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MoonBreath
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Re: Hello from Missouri
Welcome to HD!
Hope you're enjoying the forums...Theres also the Parent site that is essential learning imo.
You've found the best place to learn the answers to all your questions.
Ifn you can't find it, ask and help will chime in.
Good luck, keep us posted.
Hope you're enjoying the forums...Theres also the Parent site that is essential learning imo.
You've found the best place to learn the answers to all your questions.
Ifn you can't find it, ask and help will chime in.
Good luck, keep us posted.
*Spend it all, Use it up, Wear it out*
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Beware of sheet-sniffers and dime-droppers!
Re: Hello from Missouri
Missouri has a fine bunch on here. Now that you have made your announcement to everyone here, do us proud. I'm sure you will make out fine, of course after some reading. The show me state, but watch who you be showing to. I have heard we can distill state wide legal but not federal. Stay safe.
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likkerlover
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Re: Hello from Missouri
welcome. in Missouri it is legal to distill. just dont sell and you should be fine. feds not gonna knock down your door for personal stock.
311.055. No person at least twenty-one years of age shall be required to obtain a license to manufacture intoxicating liquor, as defined in section 311.020, for personal or family use. The aggregate amount of intoxicating liquor manufactured per household shall not exceed two hundred gallons per calendar year if there are two or more persons over the age of twenty-one years in such household, or one hundred gallons per calendar year if there is only one person over the age of twenty-one years in such household.
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So by Missouri law it's legal. Including distilling, since they use the phrase "spirituous...or other liquors" in the following section of the law.
311.020. The term "intoxicating liquor" as used in this chapter shall mean and include alcohol for beverage purposes, alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt, or other liquors, or combination of liquors, a part of which is spirituous, vinous, or fermented, and all preparations or mixtures for beverage purposes, containing in excess of one-half of one percent by volume. All beverages having an alcoholic content of less than one-half of one percent by volume shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter, but subject to inspection as provided by sections 196.365 to 196.445*.
311.055. No person at least twenty-one years of age shall be required to obtain a license to manufacture intoxicating liquor, as defined in section 311.020, for personal or family use. The aggregate amount of intoxicating liquor manufactured per household shall not exceed two hundred gallons per calendar year if there are two or more persons over the age of twenty-one years in such household, or one hundred gallons per calendar year if there is only one person over the age of twenty-one years in such household.
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So by Missouri law it's legal. Including distilling, since they use the phrase "spirituous...or other liquors" in the following section of the law.
311.020. The term "intoxicating liquor" as used in this chapter shall mean and include alcohol for beverage purposes, alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt, or other liquors, or combination of liquors, a part of which is spirituous, vinous, or fermented, and all preparations or mixtures for beverage purposes, containing in excess of one-half of one percent by volume. All beverages having an alcoholic content of less than one-half of one percent by volume shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter, but subject to inspection as provided by sections 196.365 to 196.445*.
Re: Hello from Missouri
Missouri here! Wooohooo! And welcome!
Re: Hello from Missouri
Welcome, from another Missourian.
As others have stated here, state law allows distilling, but federal law does not. While being dumb enough to sell is the primary reason home distillers run into legal problems, it's not the only one. State agencies here don't have much interest in enforcing the federal rules on distilling, but that doesn't mean they can't. If you were to end up with the authorities at your house about something else you might have done, they might be happy to tack on some distilling-related charges. You miscreant.
So, even in Missouri, keeping quiet about it is still the best policy.
As others have stated here, state law allows distilling, but federal law does not. While being dumb enough to sell is the primary reason home distillers run into legal problems, it's not the only one. State agencies here don't have much interest in enforcing the federal rules on distilling, but that doesn't mean they can't. If you were to end up with the authorities at your house about something else you might have done, they might be happy to tack on some distilling-related charges. You miscreant.
So, even in Missouri, keeping quiet about it is still the best policy.