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 ...

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 ...

NEWARK − Trek Brewing Co. owner John Ream filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of the Treasury, asking the court to overturn the government's ban on home distilling of alcohol ...

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 ...

Yesterday, in Hobby Distillers Association v. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, a federal district court in Texas held that federal laws banning distilled spirits plants (aka "stills") in ...

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and Twitter. In 1933, when President ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...