05 June 2012

Interesting Legal Question of the Day

The new Maryland Farm Brewery license law, scheduled to go into effect July 1st, specifies, in part that:

(3) THE BEER TO BE SOLD AND DELIVERED UNDER PARAGRAPH 3 (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION SHALL BE MANUFACTURED WITH AN INGREDIENT  FROM AN A MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT, INCLUDING HOPS, GRAIN, AND FRUIT, PRODUCED ON THE LICENSED FARM.
I wonder if water from a farm well would count....  or flowers.... or....

Note that the law doesn't specify how much must be present.  One hop cone and/or one grain of malt per fifty-barrel batch might suffice.  But at least the 15,000-barrel annual limit will keep one of the corporate brewers from getting ideas....

More discussion here.

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