enough of a tip-off that the beer isn't going to taste like a regular porter. "According to [Martin], the misleading information was the word 'porter' in the banner," Smack said. "The consumer is not going to see the 'chocolate orange' above 'porter.' They're going to get it and be disappointed." Smack said he understands Martin just has a job to do, but questioned the sense of having laws that govern beer label minutiae. "We are talking about stupid laws, that protect no one and are an absolute freaking waste of tax dollars," Smack said. Because the beer labels needed to be reworked, Smack said, the timeline for releasing the beers themselves needed to be pushed back about a week. That delay will end up costing money, but Smack said he wasn't sure of the total yet. "We have a huge loan that we're paying interest on, so there's another week that we can't brew," he said. Now, Smack said, the beers will need to be classified as "robust porter" to avoid the association with typical porter. Though that classification will pacify the TTB, Smack said, beer aficionados may be less enthusiastic. "In brewer's terminology, it isn't a robust porter ... I guess you could say I'm being told to call it something it's not," Smack said, adding that most people won't notice the difference. "Nobody knows except at the severe geek level," he said. The legal bottom line for alcohol labels, Lehrman said, is keeping everything on a standard. "It's