Home-brew clubs exist so people can taste beer that is not their own and hear a note that is not their ego. Forming one is a social project, not a shop launch.
Pick a regular time and a venue that can legally host a private tasting — a home, a hired hall with the right permissions, or a venue that already understands what you are doing. This page will not invent a council-by-council licence matrix. Check the jurisdiction you actually live in before you advertise a public event.
Write down the obvious rules. No one under 18. No pressure to drink. Water on the table. Spit buckets if you are tasting many beers. The NHMRC 2020 guidelines still cap healthy adults at no more than 10 standard drinks a week and no more than 4 on any one day. A club flight can blow that if nobody counts.
You are not a liquor store. Do not sell pours. Do not run a door price that is actually a drink price unless you have the licence that activity needs. The ATO and state liquor authorities are not the same desk; selling alcohol is how clubs accidentally become something else.
Share process, not stills. If a night starts drifting toward unlicensed distillation, end that conversation with the legal page.
The heritage URL is kept. The 2016 shop-voice is not.