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Making beer for home consumption is legal in most Canadian provinces. One of the earliest, modern attempts to regulate private production that affected this era was the Inland Revenue Act of 1880 in the United Kingdom; this required a 5-shilling home brewing license.

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States remain free to restrict, or even prohibit, the manufacture of beer, mead, hard cider, wine and other alcoholic beverages at home. Read the full post

Because alcohol is taxed by the federal governments via excise taxes, home brewers are restricted from selling any beer they brew. This similarly applies in most Western countries. Australia and New Zealand.

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There is a majority of people who fail to brew a successful batch of beer (over 75%), try to avoid being a statistic. Brewing on a domestic level has been completed for thousands of years, but has been subject to regulation and prohibition. Please pour yourself a cold one and sit back and enjoy this read. States remain free to restrict, or even prohibit, the manufacture of beer, mead, hard cider, wine and other alcoholic beverages at home. Read the full post

In 1920 the United States outlawed the manufacture and consumption of alcoholic beverages “for beverage purposes”. When prohibition was repealed, home wine-making was legalized, however a clerical error omitted the words “and/or beer” from the document which was eventually passed into law so home brewing remained illegal until 1978 when Congress passed a bill repealing Federal restrictions on the home brewing of small amounts of beer.

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