Maharashtra Excise Manual
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7. Manufacture of Beer बिअरचे उत्पादन

  1. All vats, vessels and other receptacles shall be placed and fixed in such manner as to ensure that the contents can be accurately ascertained by gauge or measure and shall not be altered in shape, position or capacity unless two days' notice in writing is given to the Brewery Officer or, as the case may be. Manufactory Officer.

  2. All vats, vessels and receptacles shall be gauged jointly by the Brewery Officer or, as the case may be, the Manufactory Officer, and the licensee and tables prepared by the Brewery Officer or the Manufactory Officer showing the total capacity ofeach vessel, in litres or kilograms, as the case may be and the capacity at each centimetre and 2 milimetre in depth. A record ofthese details shall be kept in a register in Form BR-I.

  3. No vessel which has been altered in shape position or capacity shall again be taken into use, unless it has been regauged by the Brewery Officer, or, as the case may be, the Manufactory Officer and new tables therefore are prepared by him, if necessary.

  4. The licensee shall provide and maintain in the brewery or, as the case may be, manufactory sufficient and accurate scales, weights and measures and other necessary appliances to enable the Brewery Officer or, as the case may be, the Manufactory Officer or such other officer as may inspect the brewery or manufactory to take account o£ or check by weight, gauge or measure, all materials and beer or wine manufactured in the brewery of manufactory and provide suftlcent lights, ladders and other convenience to enable the Prohibition and Exicse staffto perfrom their duties.

  5. The licensee shall also provide in the brewcry or, as the case may be, manufactory, proper gauge rods, a standard saccharometer, a thermometer and a hydrometer.

7. Manufacture of Beer बिअरचे उत्पादन

  1. Beer shall be brewed from such materials as are, in the opinion of the Brewery Officer, of good quality. Not less than 120 per cent1 by weight of the materials (exclusive of hops) used in brewing, shall consist of malt. No saccharine or cognate articles like sucramine sugarol and compounds of saccharine, sucramine and sugarol or substances which are chemical or artificial products and which furnish the chemical tests of saccharine or hop substitutes shall be used in the manufacture of beer or shall be added to beer at any stage. Wort shall not be brewed ofa higher gravity that 1073 at 60° F. Nothing shall be added to the beerafter it has been racked and removed to the bottling room.

  2. The licensee shall keep the total produce of a brewing separate from the produce of any other brewing fbr a period of twenty-fbur hours unless an account of the first-mentioned produce is taken sooner by the Brewery Officer.

  3. The licensee shall not mix the produce of one brewing with that another except in his store vats or casks. No such mixing shall be carried out unless previous notice is given by him in writing to the Brewery Officer. He shall specify the quantity and gravity of the work before mixing and after mixing.

  4. All grains in a mashtun shall be kept untouched fbr a period of one hour after the time specified fbr the worts to be drawn off and until the Brewery Officer has attended and taken account of such grains.

  5. Ail worts shall be removed successively and in the usual order of brewing to the under-back, coopers, coolers and fennenting vessels and shall not be removed from the last named vessels until account has been taken by the Brewery Officer or until twenty-ibur hours have elapsed after the time when the worts were collected in this vessels.

  6. After the worts commence running into a fermenting vessel, the whole produce of the brewing shall be collected within eighteen hours.

  7. Only pure filtered water shall be used fbr the manufacture of beer.