Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

He's got to do computer time because now you're a. Yeah, you're a boss man and you got to get

label approvals and submit things to TTV and do this and that.

All the little

things.

breweries, wineries, retailers, distilleries, everybody managing their interstate distributions and even direct to consumer shipping.

We provide a lot of services involving license management, taxes and shipping report provisions, and of course, label registrations and label management, including integrations both with the TTB and perhaps if you have been registering labels across the country, you may have used our service, the product registration online service.

If you say, have registered some labels in Colorado or New York, South Carolina, states like those, that is a service that we help provide.

And again, we're all about reducing risk, lessening your burdens, and making this a little bit easier for you to go back to doing the fun stuff in your business, not worrying about compliance.

So this was identifying what is the actual contents of the beverage in there.

You know, this will be malt beverage, a beer.

There are lots of different standard class and types that the TTB, the Trade and Tax Bureau, have set out that you may want to be applying onto your label.

We'll talk about these a little bit more in a second.

Well, how in the world do you call it a finished whiskey if it, you know, you're, with what we're doing, with how we're doing it.

And there's, you know, we have to get everything approved through the TTB and what we do, and we have to explain our processes.

So I'll tell everybody our process right now.

We take our four-year-old high rye bourbon and we open up the barrels.

I got ate by a bug.

But also, what I was getting ready to talk about is news has confirmed that Anchor Brewing Company has set two labels set to approval for the TTB.

TTB?

Anchor.

And you're like, the TTB? TTB is the government branch where all the beer recipes and labels and names have to get submitted to be approved by the government.

Okay.

There

ATF, alcohol and tobacco and firearms.

Hush, hush.

When you see a nutritional label, that means that the product itself is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration or the FDA, but wine, she's regulated by something called the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

And right on their website, they say, quote, TTB regulations do not require nutrient content labeling for alcohol beverages, end quote.

And since no one is really checking wine, some crazy things have been reported.

These are regulated by the USDA.

Gluten-free alcoholic beverages are regulated by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

According to the FDA, gluten-free food label claims are allowed if foods are inherently free of gluten, foods contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten, this is the lowest amount of gluten that can be reliably detected and if foods are free of all wheat, rye and barley ingredients or they're free of ingredients derived from these grains.

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Like how do you find these things out? Yeah, you can see the gluten-free label.

In order to put that on there, TTB and the FDA, they have to approve all that kind of content so that you can put it on there.

Right.

But everything else on the label, what does it mean? Because that is a whole lot of...

lot.

So we only have a couple minutes, so I want to kind of like spell it out.

If you're concerned about gluten in your whiskey, if your manufacturer is saying gluten-free, the TTB is on your side.

So when I

And we built our own in-house system.

The only thing we do is report things to the TTB and then you get taxed on that.

They don't come through and dictate your entire industry and every move your business makes.

They're