Bier Distillery

fyi, labeling a square bottle is a pain in the ass.

For machine, person or both?

Can the only entrance to the bonded area from the outside be through a distillery general area, or does the bonded area need its own entrance from outside (public space)?

Makes sense. So next stupid question, how do I found out who that is? This website (http://www.ttb.gov/about/locations.shtml) gives the field representative located several hundred miles away in another state (MN). Doesn't seem too "field" to me hence the question. No contact email address is given for sending in a pic other than the general one at TTBInternetQuestions@ttb.gov. Or perhaps ttbspirits@ttb.gov or even permits.online@ttb.gov?

I just received my DSP and our distillery is on the same property as our residence. Their requirements for us were that it had to be at least 100 feet from any residence (300 feet from our own and 150 feet from our neighbor), asked if the neighbor had any reservations (none), and there be some physical barrier between the distillery and our residence (forested green belt.) They sent a satellite image to us to identify all structures on the property and neighboring properties.

So just to be clear, they didn't require 150, they required 100 and you just happened to be 150 feet away. Right?

Attached is a satellite pic of a location I'm considering. The small building (highlighted in yellow) is roughly 110 feet away from the nearest residence (not my own -- mine is more than a quarter mile away) and also has a heavily forested green belt between. Does this look like it might be approved?

Sorry for the number of questions on this. I appreciate all the answers and help so far.

From all my discussions with TTB, that would never be allowed by them, since it is in the same building (a ceiling is NOT a wall in this sense). Also, in our area, you would likely never be allowed by any of the fire marshals either.

Would separate offices above similarly be a deal breaker with the TTB and fire marshals?

In this case the specific example would be a building in a downtown commercial/retail area with the commercial/retail on the first floor and apartments/condos above. The above apartments/condos would of course share a common wall (the ceiling), but have a separate entrance.

So they're connected in the sense of being in the same building sharing a common wall, but not connected in the sense of being able to easily/quickly get from one to the other.

Is the consensus that this would never be allowed or likely not be allowed (and might be worth asking the TTB directly)?

Does the definition of "connected" still mean simply sharing a common wall? If two rooms share a wall but you have to go outside to go from one room to the other, are those rooms connected?

Is there any possibility of the TTB interpreting "connected" as there being an internal path from one room to the other?