Sale of Beer Regulations

SALE OF BEER [S.L.231.13 1 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 231.13 SALE OF BEER REGULATIONS 1st May, 1978 LEGAL NOTICE 26 of 1977. Title.1. The title of these Regulations is Sale of Beer Regulations. Interpretation.2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires "beer" includes ale, stout, porter and light beer; "to sell" includes to offer, expose, advertise or keep for sale and to supply by way of compensation or otherwise. Consistency of beer. 3. No person shall sell any beer unless it consists of that substance produced from the alcoholic fermentation of grain malt with the addition of hop or hop extract, in water and brewed in a manner as to possess the taste, smell and characteristics commonly attributed to beer. Additives of beer.4. Beer may have added to it during manufacture or preparation, any or all of the following substances only: (1) carbohydrate (2) salt (3) yeast (4) hop oil (5) carbon dioxide (6) camel (7) dextrin (8) food enzymes (9) yeast foods: (10) the following additives: (i) sodium or calcium or ammonium phosphate (ii) calcium acetate (iii) calcium chloride (iv) calcium hydroxide (v) calcium oxide (vi) potassium or magnesium or calcium sulphate (vii) citric acid (viii) lactic acid (ix) potassium chloride (x) tartaric acid (xi) ascorbic acid and calcium ascorbate (xii) sulphurous acid (xiii) sodium or potassium metabisuphite 2 [S.L.231.13 SALE OF BEER (xv) sodium hydrogen sulphite (xvi) calcium sulphite (xvii) calcium hydrogen sulphite: Provided that no finished product shall contain more than seventy parts per million, calculated as SO2, of any of items (xii) to (xvii) or of any combination thereof.