Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 32

FORMERLY

SENATE SUBSTITUTE NO. 1

FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 67

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BREWERIES AND MICROBREWERIES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE :

Section 1. Amend Title 4 of the Delaware Code, Section 512C(c)(1) by deleting the numerals “25,000” and replacing them with the numerals “150,000”.

Section 2. Amend Title 4 of the Delaware Code, Section 512C(c)(3) by deleting the word “wholesalers” and replacing it with the word “importers”.

Section 3. Amend Title 4 of the Delaware Code, Section 512C(c) (4) by adding the phrase “not more than five (5) cases per day to each retail customer” after the words “licensed premises”.

Section 4. Amend Title 4 of the Delaware Code, Section 512C by adding a new subsection “(g)” to read as follows:

“(g) Any Microbrewery or Brewery licensed by the Commissioner to manufacture beer, mead, or cider in this State may provide samples of the beer, mead, or cider manufactured at said premises in a manner approved by the Commissioner.”.

Section 5. Amend Title 4 of the Delaware Code, Section 512C by adding the phrase “, mead” after the word “beer” on each occasion it appears therein.

Section 6. Amend Title 4 of the Delaware Code, Section 101 by adding a new subsection 25 to read as follows:

“(25) ‘Mead’ means an alcoholic beverage that is naturally fermented (not distilled or frozen) wherein the major source of fermentable sugars comes from honey.”

and renumbering the current subsection 25 and those following.

Approved May 23, 2007