The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau governs the labeling of alcohol packaging such as beer bottles. For a time they did not acknowledge Cascadian Dark Ale as a style and required brewers to use the term "Black India Pale Ale" even though fans of the dark ale considered them two distinct brews. When Secession debuted in 2009 as a draft, Hopworks called it a Cascadian Dark Ale, but early bottles titled it a Black IPA and in finer print included "or Cascadian Dark Ale."