They gave ample warning that it was coming (see WSD 09-10-2013 ), and now craft distillers have succeeding in getting an excise tax reform bill introduced in the US House of Representatives' Ways and Means committee. The bill, HR 4083, would reduce the excise tax rate for all distillers to $2.70 per proof gallon for the first 100,000 proof gallons made during the calendar year. Past 100,000 proof gallons, the tax would then revert to the full rate of $13.50.