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Mongozo Banana Ale — full label as filed with TTB
Label as filed · tap for full resolutionPLATE Nº 19322001000134 · cleared 29 November 2019
Fruit Beer · cleared 29 November 2019 · imported

Mongozo Banana Ale

Mongozo
  1. Filedwith the TTB
  2. Cleared29 November 2019
  3. SpottedNot yet — watching

Register-wide, a cleared beer typically surfaces at its brewery within 16 days — four out of five inside 29 — measured across 135 filings we've watched land. This page gets stamped the moment it's seen.

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The Weekly Docket

This filing went on record 29 November 2019, before the beer reached a shelf. Every week's new filings, read and delivered Tuesday morning.

In the register

This is the 3rd of 3 label filings we hold from Mongozo. It is one of 18 fruit beer labels approved in November 2019. It cleared 11 days after it was filed. It was brewed under contract — BBL, Inc. holds the permit, which is ordinary in the register and easy to miss on a shelf. It is an imported label, filed for US distribution.

Certificate of Label Approval
StyleFruit Beer
Alcohol3.6%
VesselDraft
FamilySpecialty
Serial19-134
Cleared29 November 2019
ProvenanceUS TTB COLA — the filing itself
From the label

“Label states 'ALE WITH NATURAL FLAVORS' and product name is 'MONGOZO BANANA ALE'. The banana is the defining fruit ingredient. TTB class 956 (MALT BEVERAGES SPECIALITIES) supports a specialty beer classification. Brewed and filled by Huyghé Brewery in Melle Belgium, imported by BBL Inc. Frederick MD — contract production. No explicit style word printed; classification inferred from the banana fruit identity and ale base.”

Extracted from label art by hopgrail · fields verified against the filing

The house

Applicant
BBL, Inc.
Location
4600 WEDGEWOOD BLVD STE M, Frederick, MD, 21703
Production
Contract-brewed

Brew it

A starting-point recipe from the style and the filed ABV — derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.

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The hunt

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