On July 10, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Pittman in the Northern District of Texas ruled in the case of Hobby Distillers Association v. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau that the longstanding ...

John Ream owns and operates Trek Brewing Company in Newark. He is represented by The Buckeye Institute in Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury. Benjamin Franklin may not have actually said it, but ...

The judge’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by the Hobby Distillers Association against the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (also known as the TTB) last year claiming that the ban ...

In 1791, a proud and hearty band of rabble-rousers in western Pennsylvania protested the first tax ever to be levied on a domestic product by America's new federal government—a tax on the sale of ...

The U.S. as a whole has long prohibited individuals from producing any distilled liquors in any house, shed, yard or a dwelling connected to a house. If the bill had become law, Ohioans who distilled ...

The Buckeye Institute filed a document last month challenging the federal government’s argument that a Newark brewer can’t bring his case to overturn a home-distilling ban forward. John Ream, ...

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that an 1868 ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, in his ruling on Wednesday, sided with the Hobby Distillers Association ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginians of legal drinking age will not have to go far to get a drink anymore. Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill that will allow residents to begin distilling their own spirits ...

Several years ago, I bought a simple stovetop still from Amazon. I would tell you what I did with it, but I don't want to implicate myself in a federal felony. The still is a gasket-sealed pot ...

When people think ‘bourbon whiskey’ they think of Kentucky. No other part of the country is as closely associated with such a uniquely American drink. That’s something Kentuckians should be proud of, ...