"
If you walked out of your house right now and saw a zombie and a dog having a conversation, would you instantly believe in zombies and talking dogs? "
Weird buffer memory. *That* wasn't what I intended cut and paste! Try again:
"
So it is 100/200 per place it is brewed. So no matter how many freinds Fred has over and they pitch their own yeast it would go against the homeowners brew limit. "
Okay, that's better.
Geez, now we're all confused again! Or I am! So can I go to someone else's house (or an open field) and brew a second hundred gallons? So, I can brew hundreds and hundreds of gallons as long as i do it in different places? (Actually, I guess that is consistent.) And we repeat the same questions over and over. well... I guess we'll never really know.
Maybe our mistake is in assuming that any-one, including the feds, actually knows either.
"
Now at the end of the call they did ask for my name, and i politely declined to give that information. She was like ookkkaaaay."
I'm kind of reminded of the common variety garden poppy,
Papaver somniferum. Growing or owning any part of this poppy except its seeds, which can not be sold for the purpose of cultivation, is illegal. But the feds don't *
want* you to know that it is illegal. (If you know that it is illegal, then you will know that you can make opium from them, and if you know that you might do it.) Thus, if you go blithely ignorantly buying seeds from equally ignornant shop owners and growing pretty poppies the feds are happy even though you and the shop owner are both utterly unknowingly breaking the law. But the moment you start asking about the law or reading up on it, *then* you become a person of suspect.
Perhaps beer is the same way. 6 guys get together and brew 5 gallons of beer every week at Fred's house without any of them thinking there could possibly be anything wrong this, the feds are fine. But when one of the guys says "gee, I just realized that we're brewing, like, 250 gallons of beer a year? Is there some kind of legal limit? Maybe we should ask the Feds?"... it's at *that* moment the Fed's concern and radar go off. "If this guy's concerned then maybe we should keep an eye on him..."