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I dunno, brewing is essentially cooking to begin with, there's no alcohol involved until after fermentation. If you provided a service where people were able to use your equipment for the cooking bit, and took the wort and yeast away to their own premises for fermentation it might be a different story.

You could then step it up a level and let them store THEIR alcohol on YOUR premises - like a friend leaving his beer in your fridge over the weekend say. If it's their beer to begin with, since they made it, how is the legal situation then. Tricky one I'd say - you might need the same sort of certification as say a cooking school would.

Here is their web page

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an the quaffale site

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[quote:38n0q4uq]Hendrixcat

The set up is similar to one shown in the May/Clarke docudrama. The buggers over there always make it look effortless. You'd be jumping through hoops for a decade to get a legal brewery running in your garage over here.[/quote:38n0q4uq]

How did that brewpub down in kerry do it? If the answer is about dubious legality then ignore the question.

&amp;quot;a_friend_in_mead&amp;quot;:3gl08zr9 wrote: How did that brewpub down in kerry do it? If the answer is about dubious legality then ignore the question.[/quote:3gl08zr9]They're definitely legit. I heard Revenue made them get a bond worth more than the beer a brewery that size could theoretically produce if it operated on a 24-hour basis for a year.

Sheer dogged determination, an understanding bank manager, and lots of time, is probably the answer to your question.

[quote:1fbziri6]TheBeerNut
Sheer dogged determination, an understanding bank manager, and lots of time, is probably the answer to your question.[/quote:1fbziri6]

kudos to them for going for it. Is it that getting a bond in a bar is easier as the revenue already have it classed as a place that holds alcohol?

&amp;quot;a_friend_in_mead&amp;quot;:28xnc7uv wrote: Is it that getting a bond in a bar is easier as the revenue already have it classed as a place that holds alcohol?[/quote:28xnc7uv]The bond is issued by a bank and has nothing to do with Revenue: they just specify how much it has to be.