Breweries and Alcohol Licensing

The Brewery industry continues to grow – if you are a craft brewery dreamer, you are in the right place at the right time and ABC Consulting is glad you’re here! We’re also secretly glad that you are concerned enough to search for alcohol compliance, regulation and licensing and found us!

ABC Consulting offers services for breweries and within our umbrella of services; we are one-stop shop! Most of our services are available and convenient, online, and for a single fee: we handle your federal TTB permits, state and local licensing, provide your business with 12 months of FREE compliance and consulting assistance and even offer in-house (or online) BREW VA ™ training.

Don’t forget, your state or local jurisdiction probably has a bond requirement on top of the Federal TTB requirement. Our consultants are former state and federal alcohol enforcement & licensing professionals.  We’ll assist your business by offering almost everything that your business needs to become successful in the alcohol industry. We support convenience stores, taverns and restaurants as well as breweries, distilleries and wholesalers. If you want to sell or manufacture alcohol and start off on the right foot, our ABC consultants are here to help. 

Application Processing – ABC Consulting processes any alcohol licensing for you. You can rest assured that all the documents needed for Virginia ABC approval will be reviewed by our experts before presenting the package to Virginia ABC. Our experts will find and correct any issues BEFORE submitting the application to Virginia ABC.  This results in a quicker license approval. You will not be surprised to know that documents needed for approval are not always indicated on applications and ABC Consulting knows what is needed for approval.  We are also the first to know of changes in the approval process. 

TOAST Academy  offers on-site and on-line training. The Operational Alcohol Standards Training of Virginia was developed by Crystal E. Stump, a former Virginia ABC Special Agent and now CEO of ABC Consulting.  This training course is presented from the unique perspective of an ABC Special Agent. The program includes in-depth training of the regulations, the ability to spot fake ID’s, managing confrontational situations, and instruction on the various programs operated by VA ABC Authority including the underage buyer program. Now this program has additional information added that is specific to YOUR industry: the brewery, craft beer business.

BREW VA ™ – this training, from the perspective of an ABC Special Agent, is specific to the brewery and craft-brew seller, in Virginia. It includes in-depth training of the regulations, the ability to spot fake ID’s, managing confrontational situations, and instruction on the underage-buyer program.

MBAR (Mixed Beverage Annual Review) – ABC Consulting maintains state required food-to-liquor ratio, minimum monthly sales requirements and year end reporting of food and beverage sales for Mixed Beverage clients.

BREW VA training by ABC Consulting

​We’re here to help your business succeed in a number of ways:

  • Brewery Services
  • COLAs Label Approval
  • Industrial Alcohol – Non Beverage
  • Distillery Services
  • Alcohol Licensing
  • Retail Compliance and Consulting

ABC Consulting is here to help you get licensed, get trained, get permits and create policies for your employees to card and ID – we are a complete program of alcohol-serving services. Do you know of any other programs that teach how to pass a TTB and VA ABC inspection? We don’t.

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