I got an email today from TTB notifying me that I had been approved. I had been looking online about every day the last month. I did not look yesterday which was Friday. But today, there it was. So I logged on and yep, the status had changed to Approved. So here is where it gets crazy: TTB records first show my application on 12/12/2018. So if I count the business days and delete Christmas, New Year's Day and President's Day, that was 59 days (if I counted correctly). Then I did a search and Google said the government shutdown was 35 days. So that means 24 days. I did use a "Beer Lawyer" to file my application and they have done quite a few. So maybe, that money was well spent.