LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The maximum number of barrels of beer that can be produced by a microbrewery or a brewpub would double under a bill signed into law Wednesday by Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman.

Currently, brewpubs and craft breweries have a production limit of 10,000 barrels of beer per year. The new law allows brewpubs to produce up to 20,000 barrels per year.

One barrel contains 31 gallons, or two kegs, of beer.

The state of Nebraska regulates beer manufacturing and monitors how much brewpubs can sell.

Currently there are 22 licensees with a potential barrel capacity of 220,000 barrels or 6.8 million gallons. The current tax rate is $0.31 per gallon. None of the current licensees produces at the 10,000 barrel limit.

The state received $122,207 in beer production taxes last year.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man caught driving drunk while he and some friends were on a naked joyride near Lincoln last winter has been sentenced to six months in jail on a third charge of driving under the influence.

Nickolus Borgman, of Denton, was sentenced on Wednesday in Lancaster County District Court. He lost his driver’s license for 15 years and was given five years of probation.

A deputy investigating a suspicious vehicle stopped Borgman’s pickup truck in February 2011. He found Borgman and three others naked inside the cab and clothes and empty beer cans in the bed of the truck.

Borgman was arrested. The others weren’t citied.

Borgman’s two previous DUI convictions and the high level of alcohol in his system made the incident a felony.

(Scottsbluff, Neb.)- Two people are jailed after a traffic stop in Sheridan County led to the seizure of methamphetamine and marijuana.

Just after 5:00 (MDT), a trooper stopped a 1998 Subaru Forester for a stop sign violation on Highway 20 about a mile east of Hay Springs, in Sheridan County. The trooper was given consent to search the vehicle. The search led to the seizure of 30 grams of methamphetamine and 14 lbs. of marijuana. The drugs were located in the vehicle’s speaker boxes.

The driver of the vehicle, Darcy W. Jealousofhim (M), 38, Kyle, S.D., and a passenger in the vehicle Misty L. Hornbeck, 37, Norfolk were both lodged in the Sheridan County Jail on charges to include possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver, and possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.