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The Spirits Regulations 1991

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Provisions as to wort or wash etc.

12.—(1) Except with the written consent of the Commissioners and subject to such conditions as they may prescribe—

(a)a distiller shall not use any material in the brewing or making of wort or wash which prevents the true gravity of the wort or wash from being ascertained;

(b)a distiller shall not have in his possession at a distillery any wort, wash, low wines, feints, spirits or fermented liquor not made, brewed or distilled at that distillery; and

(c)a distiller shall not add yeast, or other matter capable of causing fermentation, to wort or wash in any vessel other than a fermenting vessel.

(2) A distiller shall ensure that any wort or wash removed from any fermenting vessel for the recovery of yeast is not disposed of except in such manner as the officer may approve and subject to such conditions as he may prescribe.

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