What questions should you ask about your advertising and labels before making them public?
Beverage producers should take a lesson from the recent media hullabaloo over Hearst Communications’...
Category: Distilling
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)
Recap: For those of you not following the fun, Atlas Brew Works out of...
BREAKING: We’ve got the oral argument audio in important SCOTUS liquor case for you – Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers v. Blair (Byrd)
Fresh from the United States Supreme Court here is the oral argument audio in...
What the new Illinois “of value” regulations say about tap takeovers and donations to charitable causes. (Illinois’s new “of value” standards Part 3.)
You can read and download the full text of the of new Illinois “of...
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.
In this article by the Washington Times on the matter (and in the complaint...
Updated: Oral Argument Transcript. It’s Byrd Day – 100 years to the day after the ratification of the 18th Amendment. Check back for oral argument transcripts this afternoon.
Exactly 100 years after the ratification of the 18th Amendment and one day before...
Winery cannot avoid contractual forum selection provision in dispute with distributor – a good clause lets you choose where a suit or arbitration will take place
A little background on this dispute. Westside Winery, Inc., contracted with Pasternak Wine Imports...
Court rejects allegations of “exclusive” territory in oral beer distribution agreement
Much of this centers on the plaintiff distributor’s failure to properly plead an oral...
Are portions of the Federal Regulations and the Federal Alcohol Administration Act governing alcohol labeling and advertising FUCT?
The Supreme Court just granted cert in the Patent and Trademark Office’s appeal of...
Indiana’s prohibition of joint beer/spirits distribution upheld but did the court leave open the ability to try a different challenge?
An Indiana federal district court has ruled that Indiana’s law prohibiting a delivery company...
Are you ready for new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that make room for wine in a box and the need to comply with FDA regulations? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 3)
The next few installments of our ongoing series reviewing the new proposed rules in...
Seriously exciting! TTB announces new rulemaking proposal to update, simplify, and clarify the labeling and advertising regulations for wine, distilled spirits, and malt beverages
You can read what’s officially dubbed Notice No. 176 here (it’s 132 single-spaced pages...
