The ruling blocks enforcement of a long-standing federal prohibition that effectively made home distilling spirits a crime ...

A 158-Year-Old Law, Two Conflicting Rulings, and a Constitutional Showdown Nobody Saw Coming For the better part of 160 years ...

The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has struck down a long-standing federal prohibition on home distilling, ...

A U.S. Appellate Court ended a federal prohibition on distilling hard liquor that stretched all the way back to the ...

Making liquor at home has been illegal for more than a century, but a federal appeals court has now struck down that ban. The ...

In 1791, a proud and hearty band of rabble-rousers in western Pennsylvania protested the first tax ever to be levied on a domestic product by America's new federal government—a tax on the sale of ...

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, 11 days ...

Tue, April 14, 2026 at 4:01 AM UTC A federal appeals court just handed a major win to homebrewers. On Friday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans struck down a nearly 158-year-old ...