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Alcohol selling Law

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  • 26-02-2013 6:59pm
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    Rin12
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭


    Anyone have any idea about how you can go about selling home made alcohol in Ireland?? Are there any laws? Can it be sold in the farmers market??


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    NCG
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭NCG


    There are many laws! In summary though, you cannot sell it anywhere (including a farmers' market) without a licence. Indeed if you are making it for sale, you need a manufacturer's licence before you even get to selling it. Your local Revenue office will help if you want to go down that route.


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    Rin12
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭Rin12


    Is that expensive??


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    NCG
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭NCG


    I am not a solicitor so please do not act on this advice without enquiring further. However, my understanding is the manufacturing licence is not too expensive (eg €500 per annum) but that only allows you wholesale to others who have a retail licence (pubs, off-licences etc). To sell directly to the public you would need a full retail licence which is a lot more expensive.

    That is just the excise licence, then you have to deal with paying excise duty (bonded warehouse?), VAT, registering with the HSE, etc,etc. I am not trying to put you off but it is not feasible to do what you are talking about on a small scale in Ireland.

    If you want more information have a look at beoir.org which has a tread on "starting your own microbrewery". I know that is not what you want to do, but it will give you an idea of the bureaucracy involved and it's the same for even very small producers. Sorry!


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    Rin12
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭Rin12


    Thanks a mill for the answer! :) Just exploring options! :)


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