Originally Posted by
flyerdude88
I don't know - earlier this year I brought back 8 bottles of wine and a 750ml of Hibiki 17 and they didn't bat an eye. I declared it all and sailed through GE without a second glance.
There's published allowances - something like under $800 USD and max of 1 liter of distilled spirit. I'm not sure if/how they treat beer and wine differently.
I brought 30 liters of Czech beer back from Prague in two suitcases last month, and declared it. I looked up excise on it ($0.60/gal), which would have been a bit under $5, but customs at DFW just looked it over and passed me on through.
If not GE, at least, having something to declare does get you routed through manual review and then over to the customs line.