NBWA SUPPORTS PROPOSED TTB 90/10 STANDARD

Association: Malternatives must reformulateThe National Beer Wholesalers' Association announced last night that its Board met in Washington, DC to discuss how they would publicly come out on the proposed TTB standard for malternative formulation (see BBD 03-21-03 and 03-24-03). Although we predicted this, it was not a foregone conclusion that the wholesalers would support the measure (which would mandate that 90% of the alcohol for malternatives must be derived from malt), as many distributors have gained tremendous revenue from FMBs