The effects of the federal government shutdown are being felt in Bend, forcing a brewery and distillery to put new product launches on hold.

As a new distillery, Bend’s Cascade Alchemy has formulas for spirits and product labels under review by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, co-owner Ross Wordhousewrote in an email Monday. And Cascade Alchemy can’t move forward with those products until they are approved. The distillery can’t pre-make the spirits. It cannot bottle a spirit without a label on the bottle, he added.

“It’s not so bad for established distilleries who have their products already approved, but for a new company, it’s definitely hurting us,” Wordhouse wrote.

A formula alone takes between 1 1/2 and three months to get approval, he said, and then it takes another month to get the OK for the label.

“But now, we have to add on another 14 days and counting to that,” he said in the email. “We’re ready to have this shutdown over, so we can get to making our products.”

The TTB approves new alcohol producers’ manufacturing facilities, recipes and labeling for beer and liquor bottles. But the processhalted Oct. 1 when Congress failed to approve funding for government operations. According to the agency’s website, operations will resume when funding is restored.

Silver Moon Brewing Co. in Bend also is waiting for TTB approval for new labels, said co-owner Matt Barrett. He and James Watts recently purchased the brewery and are rebranding its beers.

Silver Moon also has a new beer ready to be bottled, Barrett said. It was supposed to hit grocery-store shelves Nov. 1, but it needs label approval before it can be packaged.

“It affects the sales of that beer because it’s not being bottled, and it affects production because we can’t move that beer out of that tank,” he said.

Tom Gilles, co-owner of the Platypus Pub, said the shutdown hasn’t impacted the pub’s ability to produce its own beer — yet. The first Platypus Pub beer will be on tap at the pub today, he said. The beer was brewed off-site at an approved brewery, and he said he isn’t currently pursuing labeling.

However, he won’t be able to brew at the pub, located on Northeast Third Street, in the future without TTB approval.

“Depending on how much longer it is going to take, it could pose a problem,” Gilles said.