Getting a Distilled Spirts Plant

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Description

Getting a DSP is a labor-intensive process made more challenging by not knowing what you don't know. This course demystifies the process by explaining the various components, the process, and the timing of gaining a DSP license.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the various mechanical and safety requirements to build a safe and operational DSP
2. Gain familiarity with the legal filings process and required content to obtain a DSP license
3. Detail all the steps that occur within the DSP to produce product: grain, cook, ferment, distill, package, and store
4. Cover the physical and filing steps to move product from Tax Bonded DSP to shipment

Presenters
Ashley Hanke, Esq.
Malkin Law, P.A.

Jason Barrett
Founder & President, Black Button Distilling

Contributors

Ashley Hanke

Ashley L. Hanke, Esq. is an alcohol beverage attorney with Malkin Law, P.A., based out of Miami Beach, Florida. Ms. Hanke counsels all tiers of the alcohol beverage industry including distilleries, breweries, wineries, importers, distributors, retailers, and unlicensed third party marketing companies on federal and state licensing, compliance, regulatory, trade practice, and advertising matters as they relate to the alcohol beverage industry.
Jason Barrett

Black Button Distilling Founder/Master Distiller Jason Barrett became interested in distilling spirits when he began brewing beer in college. As a student, Barrett wasn’t legally old enough to by alcohol, but as an industrious young man, he realized he could legally buy the equipment to make beer. Soon enough, Barrett was swept into the homebrewing movement where he learned the mechanics of grain and yeast fermentation. He was hooked on the craft and realized that brewing was not only his passion but eventual profession. So much so that as a Political Science major at SUNY Cortland, Barrett wrote his senior thesis on the political aspects of Prohibition in the United States.

Upon graduation, Barrett initially chose to pursue politics and then accounting in Washington, D.C. It was there that he realized his true calling was over a brew kettle and not behind a desk. At the time, the craft brewing movement was reaching a peak and breweries were opening up seemingly everywhere. Barrett realized that opening a brewery at that time probably wasn’t the right thing to do. Undeterred, Barrett recounts “I did the perfectly reasonable thing: quit my job, sold my house, moved into my parents’ basement and bought a still.”