Category: Operations
Expert Topic Falconer Foundation Offering Two Full Scholarships to Siebel Institute
In collaboration with the Seibel Institute of Technology, the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation is offering two full-tuition brewing education scholarships in 2021. The scholarships are full tuition grants and come with travel/lodging stipends.
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News Michael Jackson Foundation Announces Five Scholarship Awardees
The Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling (MJF) has received a $35,000 donation from the American Institute of Wine & Food. The donation will allow the MJF to award BIPOC scholarship opportunities to further their education in the brewing and distilling industries.
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Expert Topic Choosing A Brew School
In today’s marketplace filled with fake schools offering fake degrees that aren’t worth the cost of the paper and ink you’d have to expend to print it up yourself, you’ve got to wonder “How can I make sure I choose a legitimate program to invest my hard earned coin in? It’s not like there’s a “yelp” page for that right? Actually you’d be wrong, there are a bunch of yelp reviews on various schools, but that really doesn’t help you, does it?
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News Innovation in Can Carriers Continues
Can carriers have improved in recent years towards more recyclable options, including what has become the popular overwrap carton for cans. But cans in a box don’t allow consumers to read “canned-on” dates or other info that may be on the can and not the carrier. A new innovation has just been introduced that is a fully recyclable paper can carrier that functions in the same way as the plastic carrier.
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News TTB Offers Educational Videos on Tied House Laws
As part of TTB’s effort to provide on-demand educational information, the federal agency is offering a new video series for the alcohol beverage industry that explains the history leading up to the trade practice rules, defines the related terms, and walks through the four prohibited trade practices.
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News TTB Updates Guidance on Voluntary Calorie Statements
The TTB has published two new guidance documents that expand the tolerances for voluntary calorie statements in the labeling and advertising of alcohol beverages. This new guidance makes calorie tolerances more consistent with the food labeling regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with the hope that it may facilitate the broader use of voluntary nutrient content statements in alcohol beverage labeling and advertising. The ruling does not require any changes to approved labels, but instead allows greater flexibility for industry members who choose to use voluntary nutrient content statements on labels or in advertisements.
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News TTB Offers Online COLA Workshop
Do you know all the ins and outs of applying for federal label approval? If not, the TTB is offering a free COLAs Online Workshop on September 29, at 1 p.m. ET, to learn how to register for and use TTB’s online alcohol label approval system. For more details and registering, go here.
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News TTB Reminder: Formula Approval Required for All Beer – Even if Only Sold In-State
When the TTB has a reminder, it’s a good idea to listen. In their latest newsletter, the TTB reminds brewers that regulations do not require a brewer to obtain a certificate of label approval, or COLA, for a domestically bottled malt beverage that will be sold exclusively in the state in which it was bottled, but the formula approval requirements do apply regardless of whether the beer will be sold in intrastate or interstate commerce. This means that a beer sold only at a taxpaid “tasting room” affiliated with your brewery may be subject to TTB formula approval.
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News TTB Reminder – Health-Related Statements Not Allowed
According to the latest TTB Newsletter, the agency has found an increasing number of alcohol beverage advertisements, including company websites and social media accounts, depicting health-related statements that suggest a relationship between the consumption of an alcohol beverage and its purported health benefits or effects. And the TTB reminds all alcohol producers – that’s a no-no.
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News California Governor Appoints New ABC Director
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced today the appointment of Eric Hirata as Director of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, where he has been Chief Deputy Director since 2017. He will take the place of Jacob Appelsmith who served as ABC Director between 2011 and 2013 and again from June 2017 to July of this year when he retired.
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