Homebrew starting to sell?

[illmonkey]

I have no idea if this goes in business, food & drink, or SPL!

A few of us regularly make homebrew, in our kitchens for personal consumption (:hick. We got to talking about upping our game and selling some. Besides the whole running of the business (customers, profit etc), what do we need to be able to sell a drink?

[BertB]

There are a few threads over on Jim's Beer Kit forum about this and a couple of people have done it, supplying pubs etc.

Most of the posts recommend this book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Microbrewers-Handbook-...

It's not something I've looked into yet, but in the future I may do.

[Simpo Two]

I think you have to measure the alcohol content and send money to HMRC accordingly.

[marshalla]

And the local council will have some requirements about business use and "food" hygiene training and production environment.

[fridaypassion]

One of my pals started a massively successful microbewery doing just this.

Make a good beer and you'll find you can just ring local freehouses and they will buy it for starters.