2007-07-19 21:09 - Bottling your own beer
In Canada there are quite heavy taxes placed on alcoholic beverages and on tobacco. These taxes are also known as "sin taxes". What this means is that when I want to enjoy a beer I'd be broke pretty soon.
Luckily there is a loophole though. These taxes only apply to bottled bottles of beer or wine. So..... if I were to bottle my own beer I don't have to pay these taxes. The local brewery also came to this conclusion, and provided us with a neat way of getting ourselves some beer. The catch: we'd have to bottle the beer ourself, which in turn provided me with the opportunity to take some pictures.
Small update: today we retrieved our second batch, a Canadian lager-variant, and ordered two new ones just in case. We also got more involved in the production process. Apparently there are two things which the customer has to do by himself and may not be done by the brewery: adding the yeast, and bottling the bottles. Both processes are unexusably simple: "open bag - pour contents in bucket", and "put cap on filled bottle", but hey: I'm not complaining :-)
Luckily there is a loophole though. These taxes only apply to bottled bottles of beer or wine. So..... if I were to bottle my own beer I don't have to pay these taxes. The local brewery also came to this conclusion, and provided us with a neat way of getting ourselves some beer. The catch: we'd have to bottle the beer ourself, which in turn provided me with the opportunity to take some pictures.
Small update: today we retrieved our second batch, a Canadian lager-variant, and ordered two new ones just in case. We also got more involved in the production process. Apparently there are two things which the customer has to do by himself and may not be done by the brewery: adding the yeast, and bottling the bottles. Both processes are unexusably simple: "open bag - pour contents in bucket", and "put cap on filled bottle", but hey: I'm not complaining :-)
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