Category: Operations
Expert Topic Shipping – Freight for the Brewery
Shipping and receiving is a crucial component of any successful business that produces a product for consumption. Beer, as a product, offers many unique challenges. Failure to get raw materials to the brewery in time disrupts the brewing schedule. The finished beer product has a built in vulnerability to time and temperature as well as regulatory hurdles that can slow or stop it from reaching consumers. This can make failure to get a shipment from A to B a very expensive mistake. This content is intended to provide brewers with the essential foundation of knowledge needed to prepare and receive shipments, hopefully avoiding costly mistakes and misunderstandings that can doom a small business operating at the razors edge of a profitable margin. Freight for the brewery
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News TTB Launches Online New Tutorial
The TTB has created a new online tutorial to help make using Permits Online a quicker and easier process. Permits Online is a free, secure electronic system that allows brewers to apply for the permits, notification, or notices needed to start any TTB regulated business, or amend your existing approvals.
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News TTB Offers Online Tool for Label Changes
The TTB has just launched the “Label Generator Tool” for industry members to help brewers better understand what changes are allowed to your approved labels without submitting a new Application for and Certification/Exemption of Label/Bottle Approval (COLA). This will allow brewers who want to make small changes to an existing beer label to skip the COLA process.
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News TTB Issues ‘Serving’ Facts Guidelines
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has issued a ruling that allows beverage alcohol marketers to include “serving facts” statement on their products’ labels, similar to those used on food and non-alcoholic beverage products. Including the serving facts is optional, but if included on the label must meet certain guidelines set forth by the TTB.
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News Miller vs. A-B Ad War goes to TTB
The National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business
Bureaus, Inc., the advertising industries self-regulatory forum, announced that it will refer Miller Brewing Company to the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau regarding
advertising for its Miller Lite and Miller Genuine Draft beers.
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News The ABC’s of Marijuana and Beer
Posted by Tom McCormick
The annual National Conference for State Liquor Administrators was held last week in San Antonio, TX. This conference is attended by state alcohol beverage regulatory agencies and other liquor control departments along with many trade associations and stakeholders in the industry.
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