Well, then YOU should go do the research! There are some serious legal questions involved.
As for the Fire Marshal thing, it was different guys. And, the first guy was starting to twitch sooooooooo badly (especially since he thought he was coming to inspect an office with storage-type warehouse), that we’re not really surprised that he picked up on the brewing book to lecture about. Probably just his personal hobby-horse, don’t cha know. At any rate, he didn’t include it in his report. He probably realized how silly it sounded to say we couldn’t have a book about a proscribed process. From listening to the reports of what he said, it sounded like he’d confused brewing with distilling, a horse of a rather different color.