Spirits by DZine

Please add Mt St Helens Spirits LLC, PO BOX 728, Amboy WA 98601. We support a reduction in tax. David Zine 360-686-3362

I have conditional approval for my craft license and am starting my application for a commercial distillery license. I've pretty much made it through the TTB process now waiting for final approval. I had to delay with the TTB until I fully understood and could coordinate our efforts between the state and federal regulations. I can now have a craft distillery license with tasting room and direct product sales benefits and a commercial license with non restrictive raw materials benefit under a single TTB license. No co-mingling of products however. Also it is possible under state law to get a food and spirits service license and sell drinks and food in a separate building on the distillery premises if one wants to go that direction. It is then possible to sell one's own spirits and also others whether manufactured by a Washington state commercial or craft distillery. One must follow standard state food and spirits service regulations. Is anyone in Washington state interested working with the Legislature to revise laws on tasting room locations and perhaps softening the raw materials limitations?

Has anyone developed easy spread sheets that can be used for daily record keeping requirements? I'm going through the regulations for record keeping for production, storage and processing but thought that someone probably already has some Excel spread sheets already setup to make those tasks easy to track.

Greetings from Amboy WA. Snowed in today so thought this would be a good time to introduce myself. We are starting a craft distillery in SW Washington. It's been about a 3 year process for us. We started in Washington. Couldn't deal with the laws at that time. thought about a move to Oregon but then decided we could work with the new craft distilling laws passed this July. They are pretty restrictive but we will give it a shot. We were given tentative approval earlier this month by the WSLCB but then, a week later, we were told that our tasting room could not be in a separate building from our distillery building. We are located on a 4 acre rural commercial parcel. We thought we could follow the profile of local wineries which are allowed to have separate production and tasting room spaces on the same premises. State says no such luck. We will be producing a variety of spirits including a "moonshine" vodka to coincide with our local bluegrass festival held each summer in the park next door to our operation. Whiskey is on the horizon. Our LLC is Mt St Helens Spirits. We have registered a number of trademarks so we'll see what sticks. Thanks for all the good forum info. Keep in touch and stay warm. Hey, I've tried contacting the local Washington association a number of times without return response. Any secret to success here?