Legal issues for distilleries, including federal permits, insurance, storage, distribution, and business operations.
Red Boot Distillery’s permit dispute raises a difficult boundary between government misinformation and independent agency conduct. We examine the Federal Tort Claims Act ruling and how suppliers can document operational restrictions, resulting losses, and their administrative claims.
Maine required Tito’s to use its control-state warehouse system, then treated the inventory as a tax connection. The decision gives alcohol suppliers a reason to review bailment terms, retained title, and the tax consequences of mandatory distribution arrangements.
A barrel-rack collapse put years of whiskey production at risk. Vale Fox’s insurance dispute illustrates why producers should examine collapse coverage, construction exclusions, and definitions of finished stock.
When a non-alcoholic brand expands into alcohol, statutory definitions may leave a distributor’s investment exposed. The Arizona SunRise and Arizona Hard dispute offers lessons for defining brands, extensions, and goodwill in contracts.
Broken bottles exposed a dispute over which supply terms governed. MacH Flynt v. Veritiv offers lessons about signed agreements, purchase orders, website terms, warranties, and forum-selection clauses.
Competing claims to Kentucky bourbon history produced a dispute over literal falsity, consumer perception, and materiality. This article examines the district court’s 2025 ruling and its lessons for spirits branding.
TTB’s December 2024 rule established a defined American single malt whiskey category. This article examines production criteria, labeling, barrel requirements, and the transition provisions.
Losing a major brand can affect sales elsewhere in a distributor’s portfolio. The Four Roses dispute shows why a claim for those losses needs concrete evidence of causation and a defensible damages analysis.
Both bourbon brands claimed a Kentucky first. Their dispute raised a question for every producer that relies on TTB label approval when defending an advertising claim.
Where does a sale occur under your beer distribution agreement? The second Amtec dismissal ruling shows how the place of sale and transfer of title can matter.
The Illinois Craft Brewers Guild’s 2023 omnibus bills proposed changes that reached well beyond breweries. Here’s what the package offered producers and hospitality businesses.
Who funds the discount at the register? Illinois’s 2022 proposal distinguished several kinds of beverage promotions and addressed retailer reimbursement for scan backs.
