TTB Permittees

All TTB-issued basic permit holders with COLA filing activity — every US distillery, winery, brewery, importer, and wholesaler in the federal alcohol registry.

Rows
~114,000
Format
CSV (UTF-8)
Updated
Daily
License
CC0 1.0
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Every US alcohol producer and importer needs a TTB-issued basic permit before they can do business. The TTB publishes the underlying registry, but exporting it into something you can join against your own data is harder than it should be.

This file is the TTB permittees registry, cleaned and filtered to permittees that have filed at least one COLA since 2005. State and ZIP are normalized. Inactive permits are kept with a status flag rather than dropped, so historical joins still work.

It refreshes daily from the TTB source. It's not the full TTB Permit Online dataset — it's the operational slice useful for industry research.

Schema

Column Type Description
permit_number string TTB-issued basic permit number (e.g. CA-W-15812)
is_active boolean True if the permit is currently active
active_reason string Reason for current status (e.g. 'permit listed', 'expired')
company_name string Legal name of the permit holder
company_zip_code string 5-digit ZIP code of the principal place of business
company_state string 2-letter state code
permittee_type string Permit class (Wine Producer, Distilled Spirits Plant, Brewer, Importer, Wholesaler, etc.)

Sample query

select company_state, permittee_type, count(*)
from permittees
where is_active
group by 1, 2
order by 3 desc;

Who uses this

  • Identify new distilleries before they have shelf presence — pull permits issued in the last 90 days.
  • Verify a supplier is TTB-registered before signing a deal.
  • Build a state-by-state map of US wineries, breweries, or distilleries.
  • Enrich a CRM with TTB permit numbers as canonical identifiers.

License & reuse

This dataset is dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal. Use it however you like — commercially, in derivative products, in research — with no attribution required. Attribution to COLA Cloud is appreciated but not required.

The data is sourced from the US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), a federal agency. Federal government works are not copyrightable; the cleaning and normalization layered on top is dedicated to the public domain.

Browse by permittee type

Drilldown pages for the largest permittee categories, each with state breakdown and (where applicable) the most-active permittees by COLA filings.

  • US Wineries

    Every federally licensed US winery — both standalone wine producers and bonded wineries — pulled from the TTB basic permit registry.

  • US Distilleries

    Every federally licensed Distilled Spirits Plant (DSP) in the United States — the TTB term of art for a distillery.

  • US Alcohol Wholesalers

    Every federally licensed alcohol wholesaler in the United States — the largest single category of TTB permits, covering distribution to retail.

  • US Alcohol Importers

    Every federally licensed alcohol importer in the United States. Imported alcohol products require a US-based importer of record on every COLA.