RcRed will also take on the salient of contacting Texas reps - I write them pretty often as is - maybe not a good thing, but I do not hesitate to seak my piece with them-respectably, mind ya, but I do.

I'm not a employer, but I do pay taxes here.

"JB,
Thank you very much - you answered all my concerns except one. Your last Effect of Proposed Changes states ""You may not remove the spirits that you distilled from your home. [Ed. Note: not sure about this, and what about competitions?]"" I am still not clear why we want to put this in. Is it a requirement for beer and wine?

I have never contacted an elected representative but am more than willing to give it a go. I live in Virginia. If there is anyone else on this forum who also lives in VA and wants to team up with me, it would be helpful and fun.
Alli"

Hi JB,
Sorry for the delay, I have been really busy with a lot of home improvement projects. Is Randy a member on this forum? I like the new revisions and the FAQs document. I think with reference to the part about removal from the home that unless it is directly reffered to in the beer and wine sections then maybey it should be removed. In the FAQs document it might be good to deal a bit with potential safety issues--blindness, fire, explosion, bad smells. Some things those not involved with our hobby might be concerned about. Thanks again for all your hard work on this, Maddawgs

I live in Louisiana too, and will do the same.

I was writing a brillant response to this thread and it went away. Anyway, I'll start again. This is an interesting read. I have no problem with Brewhaus complying with the law. My name has been sent to TTB and I can deal with that. It is my understanding of the law is if I do not have to registar the apperatius until determine the ultimate use of the apperatius and set it up. If I chose to distill Methonal Fuel, I do not have to registar the apperatus. I believe I can also make perfume and such. Being an engineer, there is no way I cannot modify this hunk of beautiful stainless to be more effecient. So until the finally configuation is determined , I will only use this appratuis in a labratory enviroment to get a better handle on the efficient use ofthermodynamic. I believe I am acting within the law.

"JB,
Do you foresee any additional changes coming to Revision 0.3 or is it good to go with?
Alli"

"JB,
No rush. Better to take the time to get it as right as possible than to send out something a lawyer can easily pick apart. Thanks for the update.
Alli."

"Hi Everyone,

I just posted what I'm calling the ""final"" revision.

I consider it to be an ""open document."" I removed my nom de plume to (hopefully) encourage distribution, copying, modification ... whatever you want. I know many of you are very polite and respectful wrt content written by others. But this doc is for community use. And although I did the typing, the document contains the ideas and suggestions from members of our community, not from me ... so I claim no ownership over it, and there's no need to get my permission to use it in any way you see fit.

Best Regards,
--JB"

Indeed - Great work, John. this coming weekend is the last weekend I have to work ungodly tours of 12 on-12 off doing system upgrades, and then I'll be able to start on a power point next week for us. Only a year in the makin... But, it's a livin

"Hokey,

Below is a list of talking points that John published in version .2 that will give you a place to start. I found the name of the aid that specializes in commerce in Senator Jim Kaine's office (D) -Virginia. I sent him the proposed legislation along with a letter giving him some background on hobby distilling - I included a piece about the TTD demand letter to the sellers, that wine/beer making is legal and distilling that very same product is not, that we are not criminals and are not selling moonshine. I added that the original list of customer's names to the TTD is estimated to be 90,000 and that the intended purpose for collecting these names is unknown to the general public.

Since the hobby distilling community is not an oganized lobby and we don't have a million dollars to hire a bunch of laywers, I would hope that everyone on this forum will contact either a Congressman or Senator and send them a copy of what we are trying to get passed. If enough of us contact enough legislators, we just might find someone willing to back our proposal.

JB - At the end of version .3 you included a list to things that we might want to say and not say when talking to congressmen/women. I did not copy it. Can you resend it for us to use when dicussing this legislation? Thanks Alli

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