Disclaimer

Your responsibility for legality and safety

Brewstiller is record-keeping software. You remain responsible for operating legally and safely and for your own regulatory compliance. The following are the governing provisions from our Terms of Service §8.

Legality of your production activities — including home distilling

You are solely responsible for determining whether your production activities are lawful under the federal, state, and local law that applies to you, and for conducting them lawfully.

Specifically as to home (non-commercial) distillation of beverage alcohol, you acknowledge the following, which Brewstiller provides as general information and not as legal advice or a legality determination:

• As of the last-updated date of these Terms, federal law generally prohibits distilling beverage spirits at home without qualification as a distilled spirits plant, and violations can be prosecuted as federal felonies.
• The state of that law is unsettled and actively changing: one federal court of appeals has held the federal prohibition unconstitutional as applied within its circuit, another has upheld it, and further review is possible. The legal effect of those decisions is limited, contested, and subject to change at any time.
• Many states separately prohibit home distillation under state law regardless of federal law.
• Brewstiller does not determine, verify, represent, or warrant that any production activity — distilling, brewing, winemaking, or otherwise — is legal for you in your location. The presence of any feature in the Service (including distillation-related features), and the absence of geographic restrictions on any feature, is not a representation that using it is lawful anywhere. We do not geo-restrict features, and we do not undertake any duty to do so, to monitor your legal compliance, or to warn you about the law of your jurisdiction.
• Consult your own qualified counsel before engaging in any activity whose legality you are not certain of. If an activity is unlawful where you are, do not do it — with or without Brewstiller.

Producing alcohol without required permits, or in violation of applicable law, is a violation of the AUP (§11.1) whatever tools you use, including ours.

Safety — the Service is not a safety system

Brewing, fermentation, and especially distillation involve real physical hazards: flammable vapors, pressurized vessels, heat sources, carbon dioxide, and toxic congeners, among others. The Service's sensor readings, alerts, dashboards, and monitoring features (including still-monitoring views and threshold alerts) are informational conveniences only. They are not designed, tested, or certified as safety instrumentation; they depend on your hardware, your configuration, your network, and third-party services, any of which can fail, lag, or misreport without warning.

Never rely on the Service to detect or prevent a hazardous condition, to protect life, health, or property, or as a substitute for physical supervision, proper equipment, and safe operating practices. You are solely responsible for the safe conduct of your production activities.

No warranty of regulatory outcomes

Without limiting §24, Brewstiller does not warrant that use of the Service will result in compliance with any law or regulation, acceptance of any filing, passage of any audit, retention of any permit, or any other regulatory outcome.