Hong Kong Regulations

DUTIABLE COMMODITIES REGULATIONS - REGULATION 58

Fermentation

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Except with the written permission of the Commissioner, all material put
on to ferment shall be distilled immediately upon the expiration of the
periods set out in the following table- (L.N. 452 of 1996)

TABLE

TIME WITHIN WHICH MATERIAL IS TO BE FERMENTED

Sugar or molasses or an admixture of both Millet Rice 4 days 10 days 21 days

(2) Time shall commence to run-

   (a)  in the case of sugar or molasses or an admixture of sugar and
        molasses, from the first mixing of the sugar or molasses or the
        admixture with mother mash or other ferment approved by the
        Commissioner;

   (b)  in the case of rice, from noon on the day on which the steamed rice is
        mixed with yeast; and

   (c)  in the case of millet, from the first mixing of millet with yeast
        cake.

(3) No methods of accelerating fermentation shall be employed without the
prior consent of the Commissioner.

(4) In the case of the manufacture of rice spirit from the fermented mash of
rice, the distiller shall declare to the Commissioner the type of yeast,
method of fermentation and raw materials used and shall enter that method, raw
materials and yeast in the record prescribed by regulation 61(1). (L.N. 452 of
1996; L.N. 136 of 2003)

(5) The distiller shall report to the Commissioner any change in the type of
yeast, raw materials or method of fermentation used as soon as practicable
thereafter. (L.N. 6 of 1970; L.N. 294 of 1982; L.N. 7 of 1987)