Distilled Spirits: $1.50 per gallon. (Raised in 1955 from $1.25 per gallon.) Wine: $ .40 per gallon. (Raised in 1972 from $.20 per gallon.) Beer, Cider and Mead: $ .09

Yes, Wine, only from a Direct Wine Shipper that holds a Maryland Permit to do so.

Distilled spirits may only be manufactured on licensed premises. Beer and wine may be manufactured on private premises for personal use, not for sale. The ATCC is authorized to issue

An alcoholic beverage is defined as having ½ of 1 percent of alcohol by volume or greater. This equals 1 proof.

Beer is a brewed beverage with a minimum ½ of 1 percent alcohol.

It is a beer-based product with distilled spirits added. It is taxed as a beer.

It is a fermented beverage.

It is a fermented beverage with grain neutral spirits added. It is taxed as a wine.

It is a fermented beverage which is derived primarily from apples, apple concentrate and water, pears, or pear concentrate and water; and contains no other fruit product but contains at

A spirit beverage distilled from malted barley and other grains, and then matured in oak.

An American whiskey distilled from a mash of at least 50 percent corn, with rye, barley and other grains, then matured in a new, charred-oak barrel.

A term applied to whiskey that is distilled and matured in Scotland.

Malt whiskey produced in a single distillery in Scotland.

A mix of malt whiskies and neutral grain whiskies produced from many distilleries.

It is malted-barley-based whiskeys from many distilleries, combined with a blander whiskey made from neutral grains.

It is whiskeys with distinct characteristics, produced and matured by one distillery.

Working with the Maryland General Assembly, the Maryland State License Beverage Association (MSLBA), the Licensed Beverage Distributors of Maryland, the Baltimore Jewish Council and the Comptroller of Maryland have compiled