Designing / Selling your own brew

[YorkshireBrew]

So my new-found love for brewing beer & wine has got me thinking, mainly due to the sheer volumes I've been making... I could try to sell a few bottles of this and share the joys of locally produced beer / cider / wine.

I'm not thinking anything on a grand scale... just selling a few bottles in local my local village pub / shop, where the landlord and shopkeeper regularly enjoy my brews.

I appreciate the amount of research & development that goes into making the kits and I have no interest of passing of somebody's hard work as my own so I would want it to be a unique beer suited to the local taste (a smooth, Yorkshire beer with a slightly sweet flavour). As for wine and cider, we have a lot of hedgerow growth around where I live; blackberries, elderflower, sloe berries and so on... so could incorporate local growing into a wine or cider. The popular ciders in the village are generally cloudy scrumpy. Any tips on any of these?

I was wondering, what are the legalities of this? At what point does the intellectual property end? Would I have to boil and brew completely from scratch, or could I use a base malt / concentrate and then add my own flavourings etc?

What are everyone's thoughts on doing this?

 

[MyQul]

This question pops up on a semi regular basis. Some one asked about opening a micro brewery last month.

http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=55198&highlight=selling

 

[ManseMasher]

Good luck with the hoops HMRC will make you jump through, followed by HSE, Food Standards etc etc are my thoughts. License to produce and sell alcohol and so on....

 

[YorkshireBrew]

Good luck with the hoops HMRC will make you jump through, followed by HSE, Food Standards etc etc are my thoughts. License to produce and sell alcohol and so on....

Fair point, and at this early stage of thought that hadn't even crossed my mind.

A few bottles to friends seems the easier route!