RBCD

Hi All,

I've got a question about the legality of a hypothetical situation. Let's say a distillery got a batch of barley wine from a brewery, and that the distillery distilled said barley wine into a white whiskey. If that white whiskey was never going to be bottled or sold, could the owner of a distillery pay the alcohol exise tax and then remove the white whiskey from bond and drink it at his house?

Thank you for your help and advice!

- Zach

Co-Founder Red Brick Craft Distillery

I doubt anyone will read this (as this thread is long dead), but we are sad to have to push back our opening date. Every. Single. Thing. that could've gone wrong with our electric has gone wrong. I won't go into details, but as soon as it's all resolved, I'll re-announce our opening and again invite everyone from the ADI community who's around to come on out!

Best
Zach

Great question. You are correct - we cannot offer alcohol as a reward, however, a person interested in making their goal "might" look through other successful distillery campaigns and "might" find previous examples of people using specific wording that somehow is acceptable to kickstarter and "might" copy and paste said wording to take advantage of a strange loop hole. Offering alcohol is definitely not allowed though... We offered a barrel experience...

We made it to our goal!!! On a related note, we're hoping to have our grand opening August 22nd, but I will make a separate post when we know for sure inviting everyone in the ADI community to join us!

Ha - we are so small I would think of us as companions in the journey towards bringing increased attention to small batch liquor in PA!

You'd not only be supporting little-old-us, but you'd be supporting local barrel makers, malt houses, and farmers.

But seriously, I understand where you're coming from

And we will have a slightly different version of the tee shirts for sale when we open. Hope you'll swing by to try the hooch soon!

-Zach

Hello Distilling Community,

We are getting very close to opening (federal and state are done, equipment being installed, build-out almost complete), but we need a bit of help to push us over the finish line. If any of you are willing, please share our kickstarter campaign on your favorite social media!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/102924880/red-brick-craft-distillery

We really appreciate the support.

Thanks,

Zach (And Brian) of Red Brick Craft Distillery

Welcome! Pittsburgh is a long drive but if you're ever in Philly we hope you'll stop by and have a drink with us!

Welcome! Just went through the PA state and federal process and happy to chat and share what little knowledge we gained through the experience

Sorry - first post in the forums and I appear to have misplaced it - this should probably be in the whiskey specific forum. Apologies.

Hello All,

When you test the seal of your barrels, what type of water do you use? Would tap water suffice, or do you want to use filtered or even RO water? I'm thinking tap water might leave residual contaminates that would find their way into the whiskey.

Note: We are using full char, american white oak barrels, for whiskey.

Thanks for your thoughts and advice!

Zach

Hey Dean,

Thanks for all your help. I really need to stop by and meet you in person - will you be around thursday?

Zach

Hi All,

Thanks for the warm welcome. We'd love to invite everyone out to our opening sometime in June - will post here when we set an official date!

Best,

Zach

Hello All,

Zach and Brian here from Red Brick Craft Distillery in Philadelphia PA. We are excited to join the American craft distilling revolution, and to learn from and contribute to this community. We are done with state, and almost done with (fingers crossed) federal, and hope to open our doors this June. We are focusing primarily on whiskey, but will be distilling several other spirits as well.

Best,

Zach (and Brian)

Zachary Cohen

Co-Founder RBCD

zach@redbrickcraftdistillery.com

www.facebook.com/RedBrickCraftDistillery

www.redbrickcraftdistillery.com (under construction)