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Despite All Odds — full label as filed with TTB
Label as filed · tap for full resolutionPLATE Nº 26194001000574 · cleared 15 July 2026
Oktoberfest / Märzen · cleared 15 July 2026

Despite All Odds

Fonta Flora Brewery
  1. Filedwith the TTB
  2. Cleared15 July 2026
  3. SpottedNot yet — watching

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The Weekly Docket

This filing went on record 15 July 2026, before the beer reached a shelf. Every week's new filings, read and delivered Tuesday morning.

In the register

This is the 31st of 48 label filings we hold from Fonta Flora Brewery. It is one of 58 oktoberfest / märzen labels approved in July 2026. It cleared 2 days after it was filed.

Certificate of Label Approval
StyleOktoberfest / Märzen
Alcohol5.6%
VesselCans
FamilyLager
Serial26-574
Cleared15 July 2026
ProvenanceUS TTB COLA — the filing itself
The artwork

A diseased chestnut tree trunk dominates the centre, rendered in watercolour with orange canker marks and black cracks against grey-brown bark, flanked by bright green feathery foliage above and pale ground below. The phrase "Despite All Odds" appears in teal caps across the upper third, with the brewery name in script at the base. The label is a full-bleed illustration that extends edge to edge, documenting the visual signature of chestnut blight fungus that devastated American chestnut populations.

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From the label

“a festbier-style lager in collaboration with American Chestnut Foundation chestnut blight, introduced in the early 1900s, devastated the american chestnut and causes a distinctive orange color on infected bark brewed with water from our wells and 90% local ingredients”

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

The house

Applicant
Fonta Flora Brewery, LLC
Location
6751 NC-126 HWY, Nebo, NC, 28761
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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The hunt

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