BREWING. For the process of B. see BEER. The legal requirements for the B. of beer for sale will be found in many acts of parliament, front the 12 Chas. II. c. 24, to 33 and 34 Vict. c. 32 s. 10, changes being of late frequent. Instead of licenses to as fOrmerly, duties are levied on the quantity of beer brewed, according to a scale which ranges from a quantity not 20 barrels to one that shall exceed 40,000 barrels, the duty itself and at 10s., an rising up to £75, according to the quantity. In the case of that kind of beer called table beer, it is provided that the duty on such shall in no case exceed £2, no matter how large the quantity brewed may be. Brewers are not to retail or sell beer at any other place than their licensed B. premises, and if they wish to sell beer at other places, they must get a license for these places also; but it is provided that the taking orders for the sale of beer in any quantity amounting to or exceeding 4t gallons, or two dozen reputed quart bottles at one time, sent to the purchaser direct from the B. premises, shall not be deemed a selling of beer at any other place.
Several of the above acts (the 13 and 14 Vict.) contain provisions respecting the duties to be levied on sugar used in B., providing that such duties shall be at the rate of ls. 4d. for every cwt. of sugar; and brewers are to make true entry, hi the book kept for that purpose by the exeise, of the quantity of sugar, in pounds-weight avoirdupois, used in B., under a penalty of £200, over and above any other penalties to which they may be liable. The acts contain numerous other regulations, too minute for further detail here.
See BEElt, BEER ACTS, LICENSES.
Anciently, in Scotland, the privilege of B. was given by a license from the superior or lord, in whose deed of gift or charter to his vassals there was generally a clause cunt brueriis. But these forms have long been dispensed with. It appears, however, that a person with the right of barony may prevent a feuar, that is, a tenant of property within the barony or a stranger, from importing and vending ale within the baronial limits without his license.