Category: Circulars

Coverage of agency circulars and industry notices addressing beverage labeling, advertising, taxes, and trade practices.

breweries wineries and distilleries are having their bonding requirement eliminated in Illinois if they're under $50,000 per year in tax

TTB provides insight for tax relief and destruction of unmerchantable beer; also changes some trade practice policies for craft distillers, craft brewers, wholesalers, bars and wineries during COVID-19.

A review of TTB’s temporary 2020 policies on beer destruction, tax relief, product returns, credit terms, gift cards, and retailer-related donations.

Liquor Beer Spirits wine aggregate packaging

Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that would restrict aggregate packaging and update electronic record keeping standards? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 6)

Part six examines proposed aggregate-packaging restrictions, electronic recordkeeping, and claim substantiation under Notice 176.

wine beer malt beverage distilled spirits prohibited statements in advertising and labeling.

Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that would remove the blanket prohibition on labels bearing the U.S. Flag and change other current restrictions? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 5)

Part five examines proposed changes to alcohol-label content restrictions, including the U.S. flag, under TTB’s Notice 176.

Beer with no label - labeling shutdown with TTB

U.S. files response in craft brewery’s First Amendment case for TTB’s failure to grant COLAs during shutdown; brewer replies (we’ve got the briefs – argument is this afternoon)

The January 2019 response and reply briefs frame Atlas Brew Works’ First Amendment challenge to COLA enforcement during the government shutdown.

An unlabeled brown beer bottle beside a tall glass of beer on a wooden table.

Why craft brewer’s 1st Amendment lawsuit over the lack of COLAs during the shutdown is necessary and you should thank them; and how it might have been avoided.

The 2019 Atlas Brew Works lawsuit raises First Amendment questions about selling beer when the government requires but stops processing COLAs.

Illinois's new of value standards regarding social media and alcohol advertising for craft beer, wine, craft spirits and alcohol distribution

What the new Illinois “of value” regulations say about using social media. (Illinois’s new “of value” standards Part 2.)

Part two of the 2018 Illinois of-value series examines social-media activity and the relationships between beverage suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers.

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