TTB Compliance Training

Self-paced • 30-minute core curriculum • Certificate of completion included

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The Fastest-Growing Segment Is the One You're Most Likely to Get Wrong

Low and no alcohol beer. Hard seltzer. Hard soda. Hard kombucha. Four of the fastest-growing segments in craft beverage, and four categories where the regulatory treatment shifts dramatically depending on variables most brewers don't think about.

How much alcohol is in the finished product. Whether it contains both malted barley and hops. Whether it crosses state lines. Whether the alcohol content rises after bottling. Get any one of those wrong, and you're looking at a formula violation, a label problem, or a trade practice finding.

This course teaches you to see these products the way TTB sees them. Not by walking through the CFR section by section, but by following a decision tree. You figure out which path your product is on, and then you follow that path's rules.

What You'll Learn

Most brewers walk into non-traditional products assuming the rules are a lighter version of the beer rules they already know. They're not. They're a different set of rules, and the penalties for missing them are just as real. This course covers the ten concepts that separate brewers who get it right the first time from brewers who end up rewriting labels, resubmitting formulas, or defending a trade practice finding. By the end, you'll know exactly which path your product is on and what TTB expects of you on that path.

  • The 0.5% ABV threshold and why it's the single most important number for your products

  • How the Internal Revenue Code and the Federal Alcohol Administration Act treat the same product differently

  • Why ingredients (specifically the presence or absence of both malted barley AND hops) drive your entire compliance path

  • The three paths low/no alcohol beer can take, and the rules for each

  • Hard seltzer classification under TTB Ruling 2008-3, and why most seltzers in the market sit outside the FAA Act

  • Kombucha's continued-fermentation problem, and why a producer remains responsible for ABV after the product leaves the facility

  • Formula approval triggers and how to use TTB's online decision tool

  • Labeling requirements under 27 CFR Parts 25 and 7, including the exact class designations you can and cannot use

  • What's coming in TTB Notices 237 and 238 on Alcohol Facts labeling and major food allergen disclosure

Thirty Minutes. One Decision Tree. Twenty-Five Dollars.

The fastest way to figure out which TTB rules apply to your non-traditional products, narrated slide-by-slide by a former Virginia ABC Special Agent. Covers low and no alcohol beer, hard seltzer, hard soda, and hard kombucha in a single sitting. Self-paced. Certificate of completion included.
Only $25.00