It just seems so bloody silly that we can make as much beer and wine as we want but once the abv goes up its not allowed,perhaps one day alcotec or someone will come up with a turbo yeast that will ferment to 40% abv that would bugger them,perhaps the home brew trade could stick there heads over the parapet?
Problem will be if it ever it becomes legal we will have to keep records because that Bloke Darling with the eyebrows will want the tax.
It takes a bit of digging around to find it, but if you read through the reg\'s at HMRC\'s website (ha, I haven\'t looked for a while, but last time I was "down at the port" it seem\'s that the customs section has now merged with UK Borders Agency - so what they\'re actually called now is anyones game), you start to understand straight away, that it\'s got sod all to do with safety etc, or even food manufacturing reg\'s, it\'s all about "revenue protection".
At the time of typing this, Excise Duty is charged at £22.64, per 1% alcohol, per 100 litres. So if you made 100 litres @ 40% ABV it\'s gonna cost you £2264. Don\'t forget, that spirits is "food", but it\'s also "luxury" food, so it also attracts 15% VAT on the retail price (going back up to 17.5% in the new year).
So as you can see, why, technically, this "hobby" is illegal. It\'s all about the bloody money.
Apart from that, hasn\'t "Darling" worked out that he should do something about his hair ? The black "mono-brow" and white hair, makes him look like a stereotype of an eastern european child molester! :-DStatistics: Posted by Phantom — Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:19 pm
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