Early April brought good news for wannabe home distillers. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans struck down a ...

We could be getting closer to making vodka at home. A new decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ‌Appeals declared a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling unconstitutional. Covering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The plaintiffs, which included aspiring home distiller Scott McNutt as well as the association, challenged two provisions of ...

In 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the 21st Amendment ending 13 years of Prohibition, he was not primarily motivated by the hysteria around organized crime, nor the tragedy of the ...

Yesterday, in McNutt v. US Department of Justice, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down an 1868 federal law banning home alcohol distilleries. The court ruled that the law exceeded ...

The federal law prohibiting home distilling is un-American in both its spirit and letter. It is also unconstitutional, as the ...

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 ...

As state governments kick off their spring legislative seasons, a bill introduced in the Ohio Senate will attempt to legalize home alcohol distilling. Whether this leads to an uptick in at-home ...

A federal appeals court has struck down a Reconstruction-era ban on home alcohol distilling, ruling it unconstitutional under Congress’s taxing and commerce powers. The Fifth Circuit’s decision ...