Modern Brewery Age, January 3rd, 2005
AP--Popular flavored malt beverages must have the majority of their alcohol come from the process of brewing if they want to be taxed and treated as beer products rather than higher-taxed liquor products. That's the upshot of final regulations announced last week by the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Companies will have until early January 2006 to comply.
The new regulations require that, in order to be taxed and treated as beer or brewed beverages, at least 51 percent of alcohol in flavored malt drinks must be derived from the brewing process. No more than ...
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