Never Try to Sell Your Home Brew

Robert Shields of Hampshire, England, wanted to sell a few bottles of beer to his friends. So he asked the government what he needed to do:

[Shields] had to register as an official brewery, get two further licences and convert his shed into a bonded warehouse.

He then had to get a personal licence to sell alcohol and go on a training course before police ran a criminal record check on him.

Finally authorities demanded he put up notices in front of his house and take out official adverts in the Daily Echo.

He should have just asked them to buy the ingredients. . .