: You are not the only one to have this problem: Account disapproved because of alcohol Alcohol Rejection for Homebrewing & Beer Reviewing? My wine review blog was rejected Rejection because

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You are not the only one to have this problem:


Account disapproved because of alcohol
Alcohol Rejection for Homebrewing & Beer Reviewing?
My wine review blog was rejected
Rejection because of "Alcohol", yet wine and champagne sales are explicitly listed as "approved"
Application disapproved for alcohol, but site within policy


Reading through those Google Product Forums, it appears that initial applications are reviewed only by robots. The robots crawl your site and reject your application if keywords related to alcohol are present. There is no way to get a human to intervene on your behalf. Your only recourse is to remove those words from your site and try again.

At one point Dan B even says:


These kinds of sites are always tough...even if you do get approved, it'd be a constant mess of their automated bots flagging you for the same reasons you are rejected, getting disabled, appealing, MAYBE getting the account back, and all over again...I'd not recommend AdSense for a blog like this.

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