Send beer samples every month for analysis: Delhi Excise dept to hotels, restaurants with microbreweries

Indian Express

3 days ago

The Excise Department in Delhi has directed hotels, cafes, and restaurants, which hold the L-11 licence, to share beer samples every month for analysis in the department's laboratory.
The L-11 licence grants permission to hotels, cafes, and restaurants to set up microbrewery plants and sell them at their premises. At present, there are around half a dozen such plants in Delhi in Saket, Connaught Place, among other places.
'As per the terms and conditions of the L-11 license, the beer produced in the microbrewery shall be released for sale only after the said chemist certifies that such beer is fit for human consumption daily,' said the Excise Department in an official order, adding, 'Further, the licensee shall arrange to draw the beer samples once in every month and forward the same to the excise laboratory for analysis.'
The department has also asked the licencees to display the report obtained from the excise laboratory on the premises of their microbrewery. 'Therefore, all L-11 licensees are hereby directed to adhere to the terms and conditions of L-11 licence strictly and obtain a certificate of their beer samples every month from the Excise laboratory for displaying the same at the premises of their microbrewery,' the order adds.
The L-11 licencees have also been asked to send the certificate issued by the chemical examiner for each batch to the Excise Department.