Tuesday, January 08, 2019

Glad I'm not a brewer of craft beer

One section of the Treasury Department is the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. One of its tasks is to review labels on cans, bottles, and kegs of all wine, malt beverages, beer, and distilled spirits in the United States, ensuring they carry information like the alcohol content by volume and the Surgeon General’s warning. Well, the shutdown has prevented this from happening.

There are thousands of new beers introduced in most years. Normally, the labels are approved within three weeks of submission; selling can begin. And the brewer can start getting back some money on his investment. But now who knows when, if ever, the beer will be on the market? 

1 comment:

Unknown said...

They're still accepting fees! Honestly, the problem isn't that they are shut down, it's the waste of time approving labels to begin with. There is little rhyme or reason in the whole process. And 3 weeks is a very optimistic estimate.