Has anyone run across a plan to label spirits?
This morning, I just happened to tune in to a local TV station, to catch the very end of a report showing a number of spirits - including Johnny Walker - and then showed what appeared to be a contents label (like food products). I only saw the last second or two of the segment so I can't be definitive.
Did any of you hear this story?
It's about time Dept: labeling of spirits?
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And let's add this...
It appears the TTB is taking their own regulations more seriously. As we know the regs on aging and identity are often ignored and weakly enforced. This may be changing. While the regs on aging have not changed, the TTB has issued new guidelines on enforcement for whiskeys, especially bourbon.
At the Bottom of the Barrel blog (below), I couldn't help but also point out that the standards of identity for bourbon (section 5.22) requires that all "...storage must be charred new oak containers". There is no distinction between storage for aging from that for what is euphemistically called "finishing". Nor is the size of the oak container important. Storage is storage and to call it a "bourbon", it must be solely in "charred new oak".
I do hope the TTB is tightening up on not only "bourbon" but "rum" as well, calls a spade a spade, er "flavored rum" based on sugar and other additives.
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http://chuckcowdery.blogspot.com/2015/0 ... r-age.html
http://bottomofthebarrelbourbon.com/201 ... uidelines/
It appears the TTB is taking their own regulations more seriously. As we know the regs on aging and identity are often ignored and weakly enforced. This may be changing. While the regs on aging have not changed, the TTB has issued new guidelines on enforcement for whiskeys, especially bourbon.
At the Bottom of the Barrel blog (below), I couldn't help but also point out that the standards of identity for bourbon (section 5.22) requires that all "...storage must be charred new oak containers". There is no distinction between storage for aging from that for what is euphemistically called "finishing". Nor is the size of the oak container important. Storage is storage and to call it a "bourbon", it must be solely in "charred new oak".
I do hope the TTB is tightening up on not only "bourbon" but "rum" as well, calls a spade a spade, er "flavored rum" based on sugar and other additives.
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http://chuckcowdery.blogspot.com/2015/0 ... r-age.html
http://bottomofthebarrelbourbon.com/201 ... uidelines/