As city staff acknowledge the confusing nature of the city’s definition of a brewery might have put the Aspen Brewing Company at a disadvantage, Aspen’s newest small business will argue again before Aspen City Council tonight to abolish the city’s one-pint rule for the brewery’s taproom.

In conflict is a ruling by the city’s community development department that the brewery’s taproom cannot serve its visitors more than 16 ounces of beer in a 24-hour period. According to the city, the purpose of the ruling is to keep the brewery from operating as a bar, which is not allowed in the part of town known as the Service/Commercial/ Industrial zone.

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