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Merlins Magic English Style Special Bitter Ale — full label as filed with TTB
Label as filed · tap for full resolutionPLATE Nº 19328001000087 · cleared 29 December 2019
English Pale Ale / Bitter · cleared 29 December 2019

Merlins Magic English Style Special Bitter Ale

Broken Chair Brewery
  1. Filedwith the TTB
  2. Cleared29 December 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 December 2019, before the beer reached a shelf. Every week's new filings, read and delivered Tuesday morning.

In the register

This is the 7th of 11 label filings we hold from Broken Chair Brewery. It is one of 3 english pale ale / bitter labels approved in December 2019. It cleared 35 days after it was filed.

Certificate of Label Approval
StyleEnglish Pale Ale / Bitter
Alcohol4.3%
VesselDraft
FamilyPale Ale
Serial19-87
Cleared29 December 2019
ProvenanceUS TTB COLA — the filing itself
From the label

“Handwritten text on collar reads: 'Merlins Magic English-Style Special Bitter Ale' and 'ALC 4.3% by VOL' — 'English-Style Special Bitter Ale' is an explicit style statement mapping to english_pale_ale (ESB/Special Bitter).”

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

The house

Applicant
Broken Chair Brewery, LLC
Location
424 PENN AVE, West Reading, PA, 19611
Production
Brewed in-house

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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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