Selling home brew

[Crastney]

the 7000L duty relief on cider was due to the thought that any duty payment would force the closure of many small cider farms, its set at 7000L as it was just enough volume to get by on the income.
to register with HMRC is the easy bit, if selling to the public you will need an alcohol licence, food inspection, council register, insurance,thats just the main issues. if you only sell direct to pubs you can do without the alcohol licence.
not as easy as rocking up to a farmers market and selling.

Plus also - in about 1999 there were lots of farmers with small old orchards, with large trees fairly well spaced out, who were suddenly not getting certain grants and subsidies fom CAP through DEFRA/MAFF and so started to grub up their orchards and replace with fields of wheat, or flax, or whatever had the highest subsidy. This was very detrimental to certain ecological habitats, old orchard varieties were lost, very old trees lost, old hedges uprooted etc. terrible for all sorts of habitat and wildlife, so something had to be done to persuade orchard owners that it was economically viable to own an old orchard, so they said that you could produce up to 70Hltrs tax free, which meant that these farmers could turn any apples or pears into cider, and sell it, making a larger profit, and possibly staying solvent

 

[winelight]

There's some excellent guidance on alcohol duties here:

https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-duties

Well, I think it's excellent, anyway :)

 

[PD]

The simple answer to this question is..... The government have and do make an awful lot of money via taxes from companies that produce ***** for the masses.
flavourless fizzy water for which they charge the earth.
Now if they let home brewers sell the product they made, the general public would realise how they are being conned and they would all do it, jepodising the commercial brewers and the governments profits. Necessitating them to tax all beers.
So I quite like the facts as they stand thank you....let the great unwashed masses pay over the odds for their beer and lagers and I'll make my little superior beers for free, thank you .

 

[calumscott]

What he said. :thumb:

 

[wezil]

:thumb:

 

[ScottM]

I always thought it was the hygiene of the homebrewing "type" that was brought into question

Apparently it goes tit for tat

 

[Springer]

The simple answer to this question is..... The government have and do make an awful lot of money via taxes from companies that produce ***** for the masses.
flavourless fizzy water for which they charge the earth.
Now if they let home brewers sell the product they made, the general public would realise how they are being conned and they would all do it, jepodising the commercial brewers and the governments profits. Necessitating them to tax all beers.
So I quite like the facts as they stand thank you....let the great unwashed masses pay over the odds for their beer and lagers and I'll make my little superior beers for free, thank you .

I was wondering around "a" supermarket last week looking for horse burgers and noticed all the bottled stuff was £1.99 no deals :shock: , was not going to buy, just looking to put a value on my my stock. :lol:

S