Gin Rules

Hi. It seems to me that there's a curious legality of distilling one's own gin. The gov website suggests that in order to make one's own alcohol, one must have a distiller's licence. However, one can only acquire such a licence if one has a commercial basis. So, the question is, if one has no commercial basis, is it illegal to distill one's own booze.

Weird loophole perhaps?

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same in OZ - you can distill but they want us to pay excise duties for every bottle - so many distill in private as they do in usa - keep it a secret!

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Undercover I suggest.
If it is for your own use.

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It's all Moonshine!

Welcome back by the way.

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Yes .. welcome back Dex from the coy little pig.

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Thanks for the welcome back. Hope you're not in the minority!

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Good point. Maybe worth asking the mods to delete this thread then

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After all, it won't be the first time mods/admin have closed a thread with my name on the ticket

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Don't remind them!!

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I assume that gin distilling requires a distilling device that will be under very significant pressure to the point that it could easily explode if it's not built right or not handles right. Guessing gov't don't want to encourage numpties messing with such stuff.

Gin is so cheap though so why bother. Start with crap gin and add things like sloe berries to make sloe gin and so on. Endless varieties.