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Every beer sold in America files a label with the federal government first. We read all of them. These are the pieces where the filings add up to something worth writing down.
Nº 11From the registerFiled today, on tap in about two weeks: the lag, measuredA TTB label approval is public the day it happens, but it isn't a release date. For beers approved since July, we measure the gap to first public appearance — and publish the sample size with the number.Nº 10From the registerHow many beer labels does the TTB approve? The register's countEvery beer label approval is public, and hopgrail reads them daily. Here is the monthly volume since full coverage began, the working-day rhythm, and what last month was made of — refreshed nightly.Nº 09The industryTerrapin's kettles go cold, and the brand sails onTilray ends brewing at the Athens home of Terrapin on September 25 - part of a restructuring that touches Redhook, Atwater, Hop Valley, and Revolver. The register saw the paperwork get busy first.Nº 08From the registerDrinkers want 3.5%. Breweries are filing 6.4%Low-ABV is the loudest demand in beer right now. In the last 90 days of federal filings, barely 2% of new labels sit at 3.5% or under. The gap is the story - and the opportunity.Nº 07From the registerFall arrived in the filing cabinet in May145 Oktoberfest labels have been filed since May 1 for a style nobody drinks until September. Beer's paperwork season runs a quarter ahead of its drinking season - and hop acreage just found its floor.Nº 06The industryCraft beer is quietly leaving the grocery shelfCostco's craft experiment is winding down, draught is taking channel share from packaged - and a third of new label filings are for kegs, beer that will never see a shelf at all.Nº 05The industryBrooklyn Brewery's move is the taproom bet, written in brickAfter 30 years, the Williamsburg warehouse closes August 29 - and the brewery is moving four blocks into a room four times the size. The healthiest numbers in craft explain why.Nº 04From the registerIs the lager turn real? What 4,260 filings sayEveryone says lager is back and the haze craze is over. The federal label record has an opinion, and it only half agrees.Nº 03The industryHalf of craft beer is growing. The average is fallingThe Brewers Association's midyear numbers look like decline. Underneath them, most breweries are up. Both things are true, and the gap is the story.Nº 02MethodologyNobody agrees how many breweries there are, including us9,344, 12,238, or 7,204, depending on who is counting and what they think a brewery is. Here is every number we hold and exactly what each one means.Nº 01FiledThe 2026 Bourbon County lineup, as filedGoose Island's autumn stouts showed up in the federal register in May, weeks before anyone announced them. Nine filings, with dates.
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