Homebrew for sale to public?

[Matt F]

Cool idea. Caught this in a San Francisco business journal today. Taking homebrewer beer to market.

http://www.noblebrewerbeer.com/

[andrewmaixner]

Interesting. Illegal in Iowa, unfortunately -- thx government greed.

[whitedj]

Would there be a 'gray' area in the law where a club could operate and five beer to members with only charging large dues?... thinking of Dallas Buyers Club.

[TappedOut]

Technically not homebrew, but they basically contract brew a homebrewers beer. Sounds like an interesting business idea. They don't list "IA" as where they ship to, but do list "IO"???!!

Will the beer I receive be actual homebrew made in a kitchen or garage?


While we think it would be great if we could ship you the real thing straight from our homebrewers’ set ups, selling homebrew is actually illegal. In addition, we would need our homebrewers to brew for several days straight to make enough beer for our membership base, and hand bottling that many beers is just painful. To solve these problems, we work with our homebrewers to scale up their recipes to a commercial level and use a partner brewery to make and bottle the beer we deliver to you. So, in short, you will not receive actual homebrew.

[tony b]

Similar to Boston Brewing's Long Shot competition, except not just once a year and a couple of homebrewer recipes.

I'm betting that "IO" is really IOWA. So we should be able to play here.