TTB Formula Guidance UX Study Plan
Pre-Study Questions
What is your job title or main area of responsibility? [Open text response]
How many people work for your company? [1–9; 10–99; 100–499; 500+]
How many formula applications would you say you have submitted to TTB? [ 0-4; 5-26; 26+]
What product(s) do you submit formula applications for? [Beer, Wine, Distilled Spirits - respondent may choose up to three]
What is the origin of the products for which you submit formulas? [Domestic, Imported, Both]
Activity – Where would people find this information on the wireframe?
Getting started: You have a new wine you want to sell, and have been told it might need a formula approval. You are new to formula approval; find an overview of what formula approval is and the application process.
Formula approval basics: (https://ttb.gov/formulation/pre_cola.shtml).
Do I need a formula?: Find out whether a new beer you want to sell requires a formula approval.
Do I need a formula tool: (https://www.ttb.gov/formulation/do-I-need-a-formula.shtml).
Malt beverage list: (https://ttb.gov/public-guidance/TTB-G-2016-1A.shtml) (Key Topic and Commodity Specific sections).
Do I need a lab sample?: Find out if you need to send TTB a bottle of your dried fruit brandy to be analyzed as part of your formula application.
Do I need a formula tool: (https://www.ttb.gov/formulation/do-I-need-a-formula.shtml).
Distilled Spirits list. (https://www.ttb.gov/industry_circulars/archives/2007/pre-cola_eval_spirits.pdf) (Key Topic and Commodity Specific sections).
How to Submit Laboratory Samples. (https://www.ttb.gov/formulation/abf-approval-lab-sample-analysis.shtml).
Limited ingredients: Find out if St. Johnswort flowers could be used to make your alcoholic beverage.
Which ingredients can be used: (https://ttb.gov/formulation/determine-ingredients-beverage.shtml).
FID Sheet: You are using a cloudifier you purchased from a flavor house in your vodka. See if TTB requires additional information about this ingredient as part of your application.
Flavor ingredient data sheet guidance: (https://ttb.gov/formulation/fids.shtml).
Limited Ingredients Calc Sheet: You are using several flavors that your company bought from a flavor house in your latest beverage. Some of the flavors contain substances that can only be used in certain concentrations. Find a tool that will allow you compute the total concentration of those substances in your beverage.
Limited ingredient calculation worksheet guidance: (https://ttb.gov/formulation/limited-ingrd-cal-worksheet.shtml).
Spec Sheet: You are using chocolate syrup in your chocolate stout. What additional information will you need to provide about the chocolate syrup as part of your application?
Spec sheet guidance: (https://ttb.gov/formulation/sample-spec-sheet.shtml).
Hemp policy: You want to incorporate cannabis into a new beverage. Find information about TTB rules regarding cannabis.
Laws: Find the regulatory document that would tell you which malt beverages no longer need to get formula approvals.
TTB Ruling 2015-1: (https://www.ttb.gov/rulings/ttb-ruling-2015-1-malt-beverage-formulas.pdf) and the 2 sub-sections (Key Topic and Commodity Specific sections).
Examples: Find a sample of a wine specialty formula application so you can see if you are on the right track with your own application.
Wine example formulas: (https://ttb.gov/formulation/wine-example.shtml) (Key Topic and Commodity Specific sections).
Prohibited ingredients: Find information about ingredients that you are not allowed to use in alcohol beverages.
Which ingredients can be used: (https://ttb.gov/formulation/determine-ingredients-beverage.shtml).
How to submit a sample: Find out how to send in a bottle of a wine you are importing.
How to Submit Laboratory Samples: (https://www.ttb.gov/formulation/abf-approval-lab-sample-analysis.shtml).
Contact ALFD: You haven’t found any of the information you’re looking for. How would you get help?
Click on the green box at the bottom of the page.
Log into your FONL account: You are ready to submit your formula for approval. Find the page where you can enter your credentials and begin your submission.
Log in to Formulas Online: (https://ttbonline.gov/ttbonline/).
How FONL works videos: Find an overview of how Formulas Online works.
How to use Formulas Online: (video series) (NEW).
Imports: Find out if there are additional rules you need to follow when bringing in a wine from a different country.
Imported beverages: (https://ttb.gov/faqs/alf23.shtml#importers).
Class/type: You want to make a bourbon liquor. Find TTB’s definition of a bourbon liquor so you can make sure that what you plan to make lines up with TTB rules for making this kind of drink.
DS class and type chapter from BAM: (https://www.ttb.gov/spirits/bam/chapter4.pdf).
Post-Activity Questions
What is your general impression of the page you worked with today? [free-form response]
How difficult or easy was it for you to find the information you were looking for on this page? [5 point scale: Very difficult, difficult, neither easy or difficult, easy, very easy]
Was there anything you found particularly hard to find? If so, what? [free-form response]
Do you have any suggestions for ways we could improve this page to make it more helpful for you?
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