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"dereko1969":3qfarj90 wrote: How do Revenue charge an accurate excise duty on these imported beers with no ABV?[/quote:3qfarj90]ABV for tax and labelling are two totally different things. For tax it has to be declared precisely whereas a label can be 0.5% ABV out in either direction. The importer has to declare the exact ABV to the Revenue.

"dereko1969":3qfarj90 wrote: Could these imports be declaring a lower strength ABV to reduce the excise duty, who is to know?[/quote:3qfarj90]I'd say Revenue do spot checks.

What's about Beoirs view, do we take the stance since no one is forth coming was to when the beer is brewed its not "Irish craft beer" until proven otherwise ?

Yeah, pretty much.

Just came across this and thought I could shed some light.

I am one of the guys involved. We are building a brewery in Kilcock and the brewery is being made in Ireland.

The brewer is Irish and we had to use a contract brewery in the UK as the brewery won't be up and running till after Christmas. We couldn't find a brewery in Ireland that could produce and bottle with the capacity we needed.

If anyone would like to come out to the site and have a look around and see the plans, you're more than welcome. Just PM me.

Thanks for the update and for clearing up some of the confusion.

Great to hear Hoptown and welcome aboard