Biff wrote:*BONUS QUESTION*
- As long as I pay for a brewer's license, can I sell my homebrew there? Or is there some retarded distribution concerns, like I can't distribute to myself?
There may very well be. When JJ Phair opened his alehouse here in Concord, he ran into that problem. Even though he owns a brewery just a mile or so from the alehouse, the regulations in California said he had to have a distributor sell
his beer to
his alehouse. He wasn't allowed to simply put kegs on a truck at the brewery and drive them up the street to his restaurant.
The workaround was that if he actually brewed at the alehouse (thereby making it a brewpub), he could supply himself with his own product regardless of where he brewed it. The alehouse doesn't have room for a real brewhouse, so JJ brings a B3 1500 sculpture into the kitchen once a year and brews a 10-gallon batch. At least as far as the state is concerned, that is.
