After 22 years the Oregon State Fair has been forced to cancel the 2010 Amateur Beer Competition.  A recent interpretation of Oregon State Law     ORS 471.403, prohibits consumption of homemade beer and wine outside of the home.

“471.403 License required to produce alcoholic liquor; exception. (1) No person shall brew, ferment, distill, blend or rectify any alcoholic liquor unless licensed so to do by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. However, the Liquor Control Act does not apply to the making or keeping of naturally fermented wines and fruit juices or beer in the home, for home consumption and not for sale.”

For more please visit www.oregon.gov/OLCC/laws_and_rules.html or http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/471.html

OLCC Contact:

· Lynn Johnson, Wholesale and manufacturing; 503-872-5188