Tag: Beer & Spirits

Your company’s recipes, methodologies and customer base are what distinguish it from the competition. If this information is disclosed to third parties, it could detrimentally hurt your business because a competitor could seemingly replicate the same or similar beverage. It is important that you protect your company’s trade secrets, customer relationship and other confidential information from employees, especially the brew master or distiller, in the event the employment relationship ends.

If you are considering venturing into the distillery business, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or any other state, it is important to know what the Federal Government’s rules, regulated through the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (“TTB”), provide for the location, use of plants and production of distilled spirits. The following article highlight’s the TTB’s rules and regulations:

Rounding out the available manufacturers licenses available in New Jersey are the Rectifier and Blender License and the Bonded Warehouse Bottling License.

In a prior post, the Restricted Brewery License was reviewed. This license permits the operation of a “brew pub” on the licensed premises. In this respect, the brew pub may supply malt alcoholic beverages that it brews on premises for consumption in an adjoining restaurant that is operated regularly and principally for the purpose of providing meals to its customers and having kitchen and dining facilities. As previously discussed, the holder of a Restricted Brewery License may only produce up to 10,000 barrels for on-premises consumption or sale to licensed wholesalers, and this license may only be granted to a party that also owns a Plenary Retail Consumption License that is operated in conjunction with the above-referenced restaurant.