"Homebrewer" busted for selling spirits

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Peter Smith on October 22, 2013 at 3:32pm

makes me wonder about legality of case swaps....   but I guess 1 for 1 is not supply its swapping

and clearly this guy was supplementing the pension, selling to 15 year olds is not on though

there are a lot of backyard still ops in akl as well...  like this

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Nathan Murrell on October 22, 2013 at 5:07pm

A guy in Hastings was done a couple years ago after Police found out about his still and sales...a very young officer was sent in to do a purchasein plain clothes.

I think doing organised case swaps through a club or similar shouldn't raise any issues.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Dave W on October 22, 2013 at 10:32pm

Totally illegal, as is every single home brew contest in New Zealand.

the police and Customs just turn a blind eye to it on a "don't ask don't tell" kind of deal.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by mattd2 on October 22, 2013 at 11:32pm

I guess it is about the intent - HB comp, case swap, etc. all that is happening is sharing our homebrew. What they want to stop is people running commercial operations without the proper checks and balances (and avoiding taxes of coarse!)

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Alice Dee on November 13, 2013 at 7:52pm

Bingo, "for personal use only", legally interpreted as you and the usual residents of your dwelling.

Can't even give your mate a beer to try.

But as it is said, unless you are selling it then this is lenient.

People who sell it should get nailed, or, they will bugger it up for everyone else.

• ▶ Reply