For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BEER. Any beverage obtained by alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or decoction of barley, malt, or hops, or of any other similar products in drinkable water, containing not more than 7% alcohol by weight.
BOARD. The liquor control BOARD of the state which is officially designated as the “Montana Liquor Control Board.”
LIQUOR. Includes any alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt, or other LIQUOR which contains more than 1% of alcohol by weight, but shall not mean or include BEER, as that term is defined above.
RETAILER. Any person, club, association, fraternal organization, partnership, or any other kind of organization, engaged in the sale and distribution of either liquor or beer, either on draft or in bottles or cans.
SALE and SELL. Includes exchange, barter, and traffic. These terms also include the selling or supplying or distributing, by any means whatsoever, of liquor or of any liquid known or described as beer or near beer, or by any name whatever commonly used to describe malt or brewed liquor, by any partnership or by any society, association, or club, whether incorporated or unincorporated, and whether heretofore, or hereafter formed or unincorporated, to any person, partnership, society, association, or club or to any member thereof.
WINE. An alcoholic beverage made from the normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of sound, ripe fruit, or other agricultural products without addition or abstraction, except as may occur in the usual cellar treatment of clarifying and aging and that contains not less than 7% nor more than 24% alcohol by volume. WINE may be ameliorated to correct natural deficiencies, sweetened, and fortified in accordance with applicable federal regulations and the customs and practices of the industry. Other alcoholic beverages not defined as above but made in the manner of WINE, labeled, and sold as WINE in accordance with federal regulations are also WINE.
(2015 Code, § 2-2-1)