Buffalo Fan Zone
- Filedwith the TTB
- Cleared17 July 2026
- SpottedNot yet — watching
Register-wide, a cleared beer typically surfaces at its brewery within 17 days — four out of five inside 29 — measured across 137 filings we've watched land. This page gets stamped the moment it's seen.
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This filing went on record 17 July 2026, before the beer reached a shelf. Every week's new filings, read and delivered Tuesday morning.
This is the 5th of 5 label filings we hold from Ellicottville Brewing Co. It is one of 88 american pale ale labels approved in July 2026. It cleared 1 day after it was filed.
A densely packed illustration of Buffalo sports fans and cultural figures fills the entire front label, rendered in a comic-book inked style with hundreds of small cartoon characters wearing team colours, holding foam fingers, jerseys, and sports memorabilia across both an urban grey streetscape and green grass field. The composition is a full-bleed scattered pattern of overlapping figures — faces, children, mascots, and crowd scenes — arranged chaotically across the label surface. Ellicottville Brewing Co. and the beer name appear in bold sans-serif typography centred over the illustration, with a dark navy banner reading "INDIA PALE ALE" and "IPA" below. The palette is dominated by bright royal blue, red, white, green, and flesh tones with black outlines throughout.
From the label“Label explicitly states 'INDIA PALE ALE • IPA' below the main 'BUFFALO FAN ZONE' branding. However, the label also shows '6.5% ABV', which is below the typical threshold for double IPA (~7.5%+) and consistent with a standard IPA or pale ale. The explicit 'IPA' designation on the label is the primary evidence, but the moderate ABV and lack of any 'hazy', 'double', 'imperial', or other substyle modifier suggests american_pale_ale or ipa_other. Given the explicit 'IPA' text and 6.5% ABV, this is classified as american_pale_ale (a balanced, hop-forward ale) rather than a more aggressive IPA substyle. The label is a standard 12 oz can with UPC barcode visible on the left edge.”
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