Who Owns the Brewery Logo? When Beer-and-a-Handshake Branding Deals Collide with Brewery Sales
Craft brewing grew up on beer-and-a-handshake deals. An artist liked the brewery, liked the...
Category: Craft Beer
Lite vs Light in Beer: Why Two 7th Circuit Cases Keep the Terms Fair Game
September marks the anniversary of the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in Miller v. Jos. Schlitz...
5th Circuit’s pun-filled opinion upholds CANarchy’s right to sell beer to go in Texas because it leases and does not “own” most of its breweries across the country.
When we first wrote about this matter back in February of 2021, it was...
Selling alcoholic beverages in Illinois? Retailers, wholesalers, distilleries, breweries and wineries should get familiar with the soon-to-be new rule regarding alcoholic beverage promotions involving coupons and rebates; scan backs are prohibited.
Following an initial first-round publication (now edited) and two rounds of comments (here and...
Court finds leaving a territory for 13 years might not be enough to accomplish termination of a beer distribution agreement – but sales and transfer of title outside the state may preclude beer franchise statute application
Brewers, distillers and vintners should pay attention to a recent ruling about an imported...
Court finds craft brewer’s label protected by free speech, state regulation of label content unconstitutional (yes, it’s Flying Dog… again)
Flying Dog Brewery has long been known for its Ralph Steadman label artwork. Steadman...
ILCC Introduces Forms For Brewers, Brewpubs, Distilling Pubs and Distillers to Obtain Approval Before Transferring Between Wholly Owned Operations.
For the past few iterations of amendments and creations for the Class 1, brewers...
Recent updates to the Illinois Liquor Control Act, Part 1 of 2, Definitions, Class 3 Brewers, Self-Distribution, Alternating Premises Tap Rooms and more.
The Governor’s signature brought Public Act 102-0442 to life on August 20. The Act...
Here’s the oral argument audio in the Bacardi grains of paradise preemption case.
You can read about this case in our previous posts on it here, and...
What does the Illinois Beer Industry Fair Dealing Act say about a distributor assigning my distribution agreement (“selling my brand rights”) to another wholesaler and what recourse does a craft brewer have in that situation?
We’ve written quite a bit over the years about Illinois’ beer franchise statute –...
The scariest thing about the TTB / Anheuser-Busch offer in compromise and suspension agreement over sponsorship and advertising practices is what wasn’t written… assertions of verbal agreements require vigorous enforcement.
For a week or two now #beerlaw twitter has been writing about the record...
The Twenty-First Amendment Enforcement Act isn’t the boon for state enforcement of antiquated and Commerce Clause violating direct shipping restrictions that regulators might think it is. These Ohio alcohol shipping cases are about to show that.
An Ohio Federal Court has marked two wine shipping cases as related. One suit...
