Compliance
“What am I required to do, and when is it due?”
Every licence, filing, and return you owe — tracked, dated, and cited to the passage it came from.
States · Filings · Calendar · Documents · Alerts · Ask Almanac
For distilleries, wineries, breweries & cideries
One place to run your brand in every state you sell in.
Stay licensed, follow what changes, track your depletions, and manage distribution.
Membership is by invitation
California · Type 02 Winegrower
In progressLicence renewal
Due 12 Sep · in 33 days
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Verified · Bus. & Prof. Code § 23358
- Compliance
- Bulletin
- Intelligence
- Connect
What it solves
None of it is secret. All of it is gatekept.
The statutes are public. The depletion numbers are your own sales. What gets sold is reaching them — priced for companies a hundred times your size.
Bulletin
“What just changed?”
Regulatory news filtered to your states and what you make. We read the statehouses nightly.
The Feed · Legislative watch · Digests
Intelligence
“How is my brand selling — everywhere, at once?”
Every distributor's report, from every state, on one dashboard — and whose hasn't arrived.
Dashboard · Depletions · Accounts · Report health
Connect
“Who carries me, and where do I go next?”
Who carries you where, who to talk to next, and what happened the last time you spoke.
Distributor directory · Introductions · Contact history
Almanac is those four, built as one piece of software instead of four sets of professional fees.
Inside Compliance, per state
- Licensing & permits
- Excise tax
- Brand registration
- Direct-to-consumer
- Franchise & distribution
- Tied-house & trade practices
- Forms library
- Reporting & records
- Labeling & advertising
- Control-state specifics
Ask Almanac
Every record we hold, answerable in a sentence.
Ask in plain English. Answers come only from Almanac's records for your states — never from a model's memory of liquor law.
You asked
How often do I file California excise tax, and with whom?
Almanac
Quarterly, with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration — not the ABC, which handles your licence [1]. Your next return is due 15 July [2].
- [1]CA · Excise tax · ca-excise-quarterly (v3)
- [2]CA · Excise tax · ca-excise-rates (v2)
And when it holds nothing
What's the bond requirement in Vermont?
Almanac doesn't have a record covering that yet.
- It answers from records, not the internet.
- Every answer shows what it read.
- It says when it doesn't know.
- It reads. It doesn't act.
Ask Intelligence does the same over your depletions.
Proof
You can check every word of it.
Every fact shows its source.
Each field carries the passage it was read from, and a link to the page it was read on.
Verified means a person checked it.
Not a confidence score. Someone compared that line to the source and signed it.
Access
Tell us where you operate.
Tell us your states and what you make. We'll come back with what we hold for each one.
Or write to us
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