Homemade RUM!!!!! The best summer ever

**artificer** · 29th February 12, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by Teufel Hunden

RESURRECTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since the wedding rum batch so many months ago, which was quite successful, I have perfected it. It's slightly darker now, with a nice background of vanilla. I also dropped the proof further down from 85 to 80... the result is dangerously smooth.

One of my friends is a photographer and snapped this shot.

Presently, I'm jumping through the many hoops to get the licenses required to mass produce and sell it. This summer I might see about staging a kilt night to let the local rabble have a taste.

Giggity!
You've sold me. Please keep us posted of your progress.

I also know a certain rum-maniac who might be well interested in buying a small barrel (1/6th), as he drinks it with the band in his studio.

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**Teufel Hunden** · 29th February 12, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by artificer

I also know a certain rum-maniac who might be well interested in buying a small barrel (1/6th), as he drinks it with the band in his studio.

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I'd be very interested in selling him that much when I'm able to.

**biblemonkey** · 1st March 12, 06:10 AM

I wonder if there is a way around PA's stupid liqour laws so some of us here could maybe...partake?

**J_Mimbs** · 2nd March 12, 09:23 AM

If and when you start selling, I would be interested in at least one bottle if not more.

**MadMouser** · 2nd March 12, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by Teufel Hunden

Each state has its own rules. Here in CO, it costs about $1100 per year, and I just had to fill out an application for a manufacturers license with the Colorado Department of Revenue. Once I start selling it there will be very specific rules I'll have to follow in terms of keeping records and paying taxes.

I'm sure the process is pretty similar in every state... start with the Department of Revenue.

It sounds like Colorado's pretty easy going about it, which is nice. Can you comment on whether you dealt with the TTB at all? It's been my understanding that the federales will still get their nose out of joint if they don't get their cut too...

**Teufel Hunden** · 2nd March 12, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by MadMouser

It sounds like Colorado's pretty easy going about it, which is nice. Can you comment on whether you dealt with the TTB at all? It's been my understanding that the federales will still get their nose out of joint if they don't get their cut too...

Colorado is very friendly with all things alcohol. 10 years ago we had no microdistilleries, and now we have 14, in addition to the booming microbrew industry.

Excise taxes are about $.50 a bottle.

I'm working through the application process with the TTB right now actually. The federal laws on distilleries seem to be left over from the prohibition days... it's as if they're worried about some alcohol empire springing up and creating another Al Capone, while not quite understanding that those empires existed because there was no legal option for booze.

They want to know where all the money came from to start the business, who has an interest in the business, and you need to have bank records to back it all up. I'm forming an LLC for this, so they want to look at all the paperwork for that. They also do their usual background checks, and a federal inspector will be assigned to me at a certain point to tour the facility and make sure I'm up to code on everything. In addition to all that, I need to be bonded.

Federal excise taxes are $13.50 per 100 proof gallon, which is $2.14 per 750ml bottle at 80 proof.

**MadMouser** · 2nd March 12, 03:15 PM

Pretty cool! It sounds like the feds are ok with you doing test batches/personal consumption. Or is that because you've got the paperwork started with them?

I just checked and it looks like a distiller's permit in Texas is $3350 for two years. For that money I'm sticking with my plan to buy the booze I drink (mostly scotch and bourbon) and funnel the rest of the money in to NFA firearms.

EDIT: the fee is a 2 year fee, not 1 year.

**Teufel Hunden** · 2nd March 12, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by MadMouser

Pretty cool! It sounds like the feds are ok with you doing test batches/personal consumption. Or is that because you've got the paperwork started with them?

I just checked and it looks like a distiller's permit in Texas is $3350 for two years. For that money I'm sticking with my plan to buy the booze I drink (mostly scotch and bourbon) and funnel the rest of the money in to NFA firearms.

EDIT: the fee is a 2 year fee, not 1 year.

I've got a permit to produce, I just can't be out selling it or anything. Even to get that I had to draw a map of where the still is on my yard and include details as to what I'm making and what I'm making it out of.

**rondo** · 6th March 12, 10:11 PM

I own a bar and restaurant in Southern Colorado. We pride ourselves on the variety of Colorado wine, beer, and liquor we sell. We sell Breckenridge Vodka and Bourbon, Stranahan's whiskey, and Rocky Springs Vineyards wines. I would be very interested in sampling your rum and perhaps stocking it when your ready. BTW, being a Navy Vet I am, of course, a rum drinker.

Rondo