2016 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 9 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions and Definitions
Section 23006.
23006. Beer means any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of any infusion or decoction of barley, malt, hops, or any other similar product, or any combination thereof in water, and includes ale, porter, brown, stout, lager beer, small beer, and strong beer, but does not include sake, known as Japanese rice wine. Beer aged in an empty wooden barrel previously used to contain wine or distilled spirits shall be defined exclusively as beer and shall not be considered a dilution or mixture of any other alcoholic beverage.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 96, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2013.)
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