Has anyone tried for a permit as a genuine hobbyist?

[tassiespirit]

If you have an existing liquor license and registered for GST it's not difficult to get a license from the tax department to distill commercially though there are lots of hoops to jump through. Bonded areas in the premises, written processes to be written. Health and safety procedures. The tax department are very helpful in giving advise.
I was looking into it for some winemaker friends of mine... They were telling me that a lot of micro distillers are starting with Gin with many buying in the spirit from Tarac ect.

Wineleader. That's hitting the nail on the head for my question in the first place; but no good for a hobby at all. Thank you.

Thanks everyone again, for the info and the pointers, now it's up to me to pull my digit out and smell the spirit.

Whatever I choose , I can get help here and grow the system and improve the batch.

Tassiespirit