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The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is continuing its effort to streamline the licensing and permitting process for alcohol beverage industry members. The latest TTB rulemaking proposal would streamline much of the qualification requirements for Brewer’s Notices as well as cut back on the requirements for reporting certain brewery businesses changes.
Read more...After years of failed attempts to modernize some of the state’s restrictive alcohol laws, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law yesterday the ‘Free the Growler’ bill that will allow breweries up to 150,000 barrels in annual production to offer growler sales, up from the current 20,000-barrel cap.
Read more...The Vermont Legislature has passed a bill that will lower taxes on spirits-based ready-to-drink beverages. As in most states, Vermont currently taxes spirit-based RTD’s at the same rate as all other distilled spirit beverages.
Read more...The new TTB portal page is now live and can be accessed here. The new site provides a preview of the “one-stop shop” experience to access TTB online services and is another step towards myTTB, the agencies new integrated and personalized online system for industry members to transact business with TTB.
Read more...The American Craft Spirits Association (ACSA), American Distilling Institute (ADI) and Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), three trade associations representing distillers large and small, joined forces to launch “Ship My Spirits,” a coalition with the goal of modernizing the spirits marketplace by allowing direct-to-consumer shipping of distilled spirits, specifically targeting New York state where the New York legislature is currently considering two bills, S4245-A/A3275-A and S556/A2513 which would permanently allow distillers to ship their spirits products directly to adult consumers.
Read more...The Brewers Association took a significant leap into strengthening the association’s government affairs program by hiring two people for the newly created position of state government affairs manager.
Read more...The interest and enthusiasm for direct-to-consumer (DTC) beer shipping has not waned in 2022, even as the past year has brought some relief from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by Sovos ShipCompliant. The report included a survey by The Harris Poll and was conducted in partnership with the Brewers Association.
Read more...The US Treasury Department released today a much-anticipated report on competition in the alcohol beverage industry.
Read more...Two competing bills have been introduced by the same Senator in the Nebraska Legislature, pitting the state’s beer wholesalers with craft brewers.
Read more...The spirit’s industry has mounted an organized lobbying and marketing campaign to take market share from beer by expanding distribution rights and lowering taxes on canned cocktails, according to an article in the Washington Post.
Read more...Homebrewing falls into a bit of a grey area under Ohio law, so lawmakers have passed and sent a measure to Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk would clear the path for homebrewers and fermenters to host events showing off their latest batch.
Read more...The Louisiana Craft Brewers Guild has put up more than 30 billboards in Lake Charles to urge lawmakers to consider addressing craft-friendly reform in the state.
Read more...Despite the ongoing pandemic, more than 9,000 breweries operated in the United States in 2021, a 6% increase from 2020, according to the Brewers Association (BA).
Read more...Two new board members, Tomme Arthur, Co-Founder of Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey and Holly Redding, Managing Member at Winchester Brew Works have been elected to the board of directors of the Brewers Association.
Read more...Have you ever wondered what the penalty might be if a alcohol beverage manufacturer lost a court case against a wholesaler in a franchise dispute? It doesn’t happen often that franchise disputes go before a jury, but in Missouri court case, the cost was high. Jägermeister was been found guilty of violating a contract with their distributor Major Brands Inc, with a jury awarding nearly $12 million in damages to Major Brands.
Read more...The Alcohol Tax and Tabaco Trade Bureau (TTB) has expanded the list of changes that can be made to previously-approved alcohol beverage labels without requiring those labels to be resubmitted to TTB for review.
Read more...Alcohol taxes in the U.K. are being radically modified in the biggest overhaul in more than 140 years.
Read more...Kentucky distillers have filled 2.5 million barrels so far this year, breaking the record for production. For the first time, there are more than 10 million barrels of bourbon aging across the US state right now.
Read more...Massachusetts Rep. Kay Khan has introduced a bill that would double the state’s excise tax on alcohol. The taxes, she said, could net $435 million in revenue to fund public health programs, including some for substance abuse.
Read more...In a flurry of bill-signing after the end of the legislative session, California governor Gavin Newson signed a number of bills impacting the alcohol beverage industry in the state.
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