Well hell, I'll never give Massachusetts the blanket description of "progressive" again. I understand their desire to protect revenue streams, since they're not getting their tax nibble. But there are thousands of homebrewers and winemakers in the state. Do they have to do their swaps cloak & daggar style?

New York's laws must be different. In Rochester there was a large international beer store that had a homebrew swap station in the back. You could bring up to 6 12-ounce bottles of your brew at a time and take an equal number of other homebrews of your choice, no cash exchanged. The liquor store owners just provided the free service out of passion for homebrewing. Apparently that wouldn't fly in this state.