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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024
Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law
Business and Professions Code Provisions Relating To the Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law1
Division 9. Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 1. General Provisions and Definitions2
Section 23006
23006. "Beer." "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 may be produced using the following materials as adjuncts in fermentation: honey, fruit, fruit juice, fruit concentrate, herbs, spices, and other food materials. 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.
History.—Stats. 2012, Ch. 96 (AB 1812), in effect January 1, 2013, added a comma after "and strong beer" in the first sentence, and added the second sentence. Stats. 2019, Ch. 60 (AB 205), in effect January 1, 2020, added the second sentence.
Intoxicating nature.—Whenever merchandise is sold as "beer" it could not mean anything but an intoxicating beverage. Molina v. Munro, (1956) 145 Cal.App.2d 601.
1 See Section 32002 of Revenue and Taxation Code in this volume.
2The provisions of this chapter, except as otherwise noted, were added by Stats. 1953, p. 954, in effect September 9, 1953.