When you see a “TTB UPDATE” sitting in your inbox, rarely is it exciting or pleasing news for a producer of an alcoholic beverage. And that’s fine; someone has to… Read More

Good news for you small craft brewers out there: Starting Jan. 1, 2017, if you are a TTB-permitted entity owing less than $50,000 in excise taxes in the previous year… Read More

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, god love ’em, continue to try and improve their processes and make things a bit easier on all of you when navigating… Read More

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau just issued an interim rule to raise the civil penalties for violating the Alcoholic Beverage Labeling Act. Specifically, this interim final rule… Read More

Did you wake up today in a panic thinking, “Oh god, I have no fucking clue what the domestic tax paid estimate for May is?” Well, panic no more as… Read More

I’ve always liked the acronym for the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau — simply TTB — because it cuts to the chase. It says “forget those fun words… Read More

Before the calendar flipped to 2016, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau issued “TTB Ruling 2015-1, Ingredients and Processes Used in the Production of Beer Not Subject to… Read More

Most up-and-coming brewers face the same set of questions and challenges when they decide to take the step toward opening their own craft brewery. Opening a brewery requires preparation, knowing… Read More

Craft brewers are rule breakers, and it’s an ethos we encourage here at Craft Brewing Business. Well, except when it comes to those more official rules — the ones that… Read More

Everyone’s pals at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) issued their Quarterly Brewer’s Report of Operations in February, and the instructions to the form, TTB F 5130.26i.… Read More