How would one start a bourbon or whiskey business? Interested in starting one but don’t know how to begin.

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Depends on what you mean. Opening a distillery? Buying/sourcing whiskey from a larger producer and marketing/selling it as your own? Something else?

Either way, it’s not easy or cheap.

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I was wrong, distilling is not legal (beer and wine is legal up to 200 gallons annually), but there’s tons of home kits available online. Seems TTB/ATF isn’t actively prosecuting moonshiners who aren’t distributing their product.

What kind of business? Manufacturing, gypsy brand, import/export, etc.?

Do you have any prior brewing/distillation professional experience or are an engineer? Plenty to google on the topic “how to start a distillery”, might be more worthwhile to become an investor in a partnership to help fund someone else starting one. Starting a distillery or brewery is grueling work, riddled by infinite laws and restrictions, and not profitable unless you’re running a full size production facility.

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