Recently a friend brought to my attention the fact that some homebrewers feel that current laws prohibiting the resale of homebrew are unfair. To be honest I had never really thought about it, considering that we're talking about a consumable product.
The thought was that there are many hobbies where people can make money, and therefore attempt to recoup (to a degree) one's initial investment into the hobby. For instance, there are a number of direct marketing companies where one can do it a a hobby and host parties to sell items related to the hobby. True, in most cases they're not selling the finished product but the idea is there.
The more I think about it, the less I think it is a food safety issue. Look at bake sales...I'm not aware of any inspections that bakers have to go through for bake sales.
As homebrewers, we don't have this ability. True, there are a small, dedicated number of homebrewers that become craft brewers or "nano" brewers, but this is very rare and certainly expensive and beyond the means of most of us.
What do you think? Should homebrewers have this ability, in some form or another?
