also a contributing factor. "You can have sugar, you can have malt, you have barley, you can have hops, you can have tubing, copper, and everything else, but if you put it all together in a store and market it like it's going to be homebrewing stuff and have a book about how to do it, it's a problem," he said. According to Peacock, the agents were more cordial on Thursday than the word "raid" suggests. They asked for the equipment rather than demanded it, he said (Hop City owner Torres said in an interview Friday that his staff understood the request as a demand), and the agents used discretion. "The agents used their discretion, and instead of taking all of the items -- which they had the authority to do -- they only took a portion of the items with the assurance that the rest of the items would be out of the state by today (Friday)," Peacock said. The agents also showed discretion by choosing not to arrest the general manager of Hop City, he said. The dust between Hop City and ABC was not completely settled on Friday. Peacock said agents took only one book about brewing, while Torres maintained that the agents removed a large stock of literature from the store. Peacock also said representatives from ABC informed Hop City employees that the homebrewing equipment was not allowed before Thursday's seizures, while Torres said they only asked questions about the equipment. Peacock said the items taken