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Hey all, i'm doing a beer and food tasting for some journalists today and need one question answered.


What is the maximum output of a Microbrewery before it strays into Macro land, in litres.


Geoff

I asked wikipedia, and this is what is said:

A microbrewery, or craft brewery, is a brewery which produces a limited amount of beer.[1] The maximum amount of beer a brewery can produce and still be classed as a microbrewery varies by region and by authority, though is usually around 15,000 barrels (18,000 hectolitres/ 475,000 gallons) a year.

take what you will form that, I really don't know whether it is accurate or not

Isn't there a tax break for breweries producing below a certain threshold? Im betting a legal-eagle librarian would have that kind of info at his fingertips... <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->

Below 20,000Hl for the tax break, so I guess under that is considered micro.

Annual output.

Brewpub: <3000HL,
Microbrewery: 3000 - 30,000HL,
Regional Brewery: 30,000 - 200,000HL,
National Brewery: >200,000HL

Source: Brewers & Malsters Guild of ireland submission to the Government (on taxation etc.) probably 1996.

&amp;quot;noby&amp;quot;:3qz9eq8i wrote: Below 20,000Hl for the tax break, so I guess under that is considered micro.[/quote:3qz9eq8i]

For Ireland, this is definitively correct.

There's no other level or threshold defined in law in Ireland.

And 20,000HL is 2 million litres.