In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) “Act” means the Tamil Nadu Prohibition Act, 1937 (Tamil Nadu Act X of 1937);
(aa) “batch” means the quantity of work taken into a single fermented vessel related to specific brew of brand).
(b) “beer” means any liquor including draught beer prepared from malt or grain with or without the addition of sugar or flavoured with hops and includes ale, porter and stout;
(c) “bottling” means transfer of manufactured beer into bottles, *[cans], casks or kegs for final removal from a brewery and includes rebottling and refilling;
(d) “brewery” means a building or place where beer is manufactured and includes every place therein where beer is stored or where from it is issued;
(e) “cooler” means any vessel into which worts are passed to be cooled and includes a refrigerator;
(f) “copper” means any vessel in which either worts or water is boiled or heated in the course of brewing;
(ff) “draught beer” means beer which is unpasteurized and which is filled in kegs or container for sale”.
(g) “Excise Supervisory Officer” means an officer appointed for the supervision of the brewery.
(h) “fermenting vessel” means any vessel in which wort is fermented by the action of yeast;
(i) “Form” means a form appended to these rules:
(j) “Government” means the State Government:
(aa) Inserted by G.O.Ms. No. 250, P&E (III), dated 23.11.2001 (*) Inserted by G.O.Ms. No.
21, Home, P&E (III), dated
21.07.2015
(ff)Inserted by G.O.Ms. No.
125, Home, P&E (III), dated
06.05.1997 2
(k) “gravity of beer” means the density of beer as ascertained by the saccharometer;
(l) “hop back” means any vessel into which wort is run after boiling in order to remove the spent hops;
(m) “Laboratory” means the Tamil Nadu Forensic Science Laboratory including its regional laboratories:
(n) “ Licence” means the licence for privilege granted under section 17-C of the Act for the manufacture of beer and the word “licensed” or “licensee” shall be construed accordingly;
(o) "malting" means the process of treating raw barley or other grains by which the grains are allowed to germinate to a desired limit beyond which the germination is arrested and the grains suitably dried and cured and " malt" the grains so prepared;
(p) “mashtun” means any vessel in which malt or grain is exhausted in the course of brewing;
(q) "mashing" means the process by which wort is made in the mashtun;
(r) “racking” or “settling back” means the process by which wort is passed from a fermenting vessel into casks and racked either at once or after a time;
(s) “Sugar” means any saccharine substance, except or syrup and includes any materials capable of being used in brewing except malt or corn;
(t) “underback” means any vessel into which wort runs either from the mashtun or from the hop back;
(u) “wort” means the liquor obtained by the exhaustion of malt or grain or by the solution of saccharine matter in the process of brewing.