Drawback Tutorial

• Drawback Tutorial Home
• TTB F 5154.1
• Glossary/References
  • Definitions
  • TTB actions
  • What is density?
  • What is specific gravity?
  • Important unit conversions
• Calculations
  • Calculation of eligible alcohol
  • Calculation of alcohol content of finished product
  • Calculation Worksheets
• Unfitness for Beverage Purposes
  • What makes a product unfit?
  • 1% solutions
  • Organoleptic Analysis
• Naming Nonbeverage Products
• Components of Formulas
  • Format of submissions
  • Common mistakes
  • Listing Ingredients in Your Formula
  • Identifying all sources of ethanol
  • Limited ingredients
  • Prohibited ingredients
  • Information about solid extracts
  • Artificial versus natural vanillin
  • Flavors purchased from other manufacturers
  • Compounded flavors manufactured in-house
  • Acids as flavoring chemicals
  • Botanicals allowed in flavors
• Submitting Samples with Formulas
• Revisions to Approved Formulas
• Special Products
  • Food products containing ethanol
  • Vanilla Extracts and Vanilla Flavors
• Example Formulas
  • Simple mixture 1
  • Simple mixture 2 (including discussion about yield)
  • Simple mixture 3 (includes a disapproved intermediate formula)
  • Simple extract
  • Washed extract (with multiple sources of ethanol)
  • Dietary Supplements 1
  • Dietary Supplement 2

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After having reviewed thousands of nonbeverage drawback formulas, many of which contained similar errors, TTB’s Nonbeverage Products Laboratory (NPL) chemists decided to construct a tutorial to both codify what the NPL is looking for in formulas and to assist industry members with questions when filling out the TTB Form 5154.1 The Tutorial is topic-based with similar topics grouped under a general heading. 

In addition to the topical listing, the Tutorial contains worksheets to determine whether a product is unfit for beverage purposes and ones to assist in performing the calculations required on the form.  There are sample formulas representing various types of manufacturing processes and explanations of the calculations for each of these types.

As issues evolve and as time allows, the NPL will expand the topics and the types of sample formulas.  Please sign up to be notified of tutorial updates by clicking here ( Get Email Updates ). You can make suggestions for topics and formulas by contacting the NPL at drawback@ttb.gov however, please do not send status requests to this address.