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You Can’t Tag This

Think before you post, tag, tweet, or instagram. Florida beverage manufacturers want to maintain good relationships with the bars, tasting rooms, and restaurants that sell their products. As a manufacturer, it’s natural to want to support the vendors that support you. But when it comes to promoting vendors on social media, Florida beverage manufacturers must use caution.

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TTB Delays & How to Minimize Them

Waiting for the TTB’s approval for a new beverage manufacturer has always been frustrating. Unfortunately, that wait could get a lot longer, especially for new breweries. TTB permit processing times According to the TTB’s posted information, the average number of days for approval of a new brewery jumped from 115 days in July 2015 to 132 days in August...

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Breweries | Read Time: < 1 minute

Florida Property Owners Want Breweries

More and more property owners want to include breweries in their commercial spaces. As one example, here’s a listing for a commercial development in Eustis looking for a brewery tenant. Property owners recognize that brewery/taprooms bring in people.

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Breweries | Read Time: 5 minutes

Choosing Trademark-Safe Names: 5 Questions

There are only so many hoppy, reserve, barrel-aged names to go around. This means that more and more otherwise happy, brotherly-loving brewers, vintners and distillers are taking aim at each other over company names and product names that may or may not be infringing on one another. Before deciding your next beer MUST be named Brewers’Law Lager, or whatever,...

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The Florida Breweries Report | Read Time: 13 minutes

The Florida Breweries Report – April 2015

Number of licensed Florida breweries topped 150 for the first time in April 2015. Monthly Highlights Three new breweries are included in this edition of The Florida Brewery Report: Concrete Beach Brewery in Miami, Goat Lips Deli & Dinner House in Pensacola, and House of Brewz Taps & Tapas in Ft. Myers. In April 2015, the total number of...

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