On July 13, 2023, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) published Procedure Number 2023-1, providing brewers with updated guidance on the transfer of beer without tax payment between breweries not of the same ownership.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Young adults in the U.S. have become progressively less likely to use alcohol over the past two decades, with the percentages of 18- to 34-year-olds saying they ever drink, that they drank in the past week and that they sometimes drink more than they should all lower today.
WASHINGTON -- As a former bartender and current tipped worker, Trupti Patel knows that customers tend to get grabby when there is alcohol involved.
After working in the food service industry for more than a decade, she is accustomed to dealing with drunk customers who get out of hand, especially if they become belligerent or make lewd comments. But the District of Columbia resident finds it disturbing to think of teens trying to handle the same situation.
Bars in various states across the country may be staffed by high schoolers as more lawmakers and businesses push to lower the legal age to serve alcohol and bartend.
There are at least nine states -- including Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, New Mexico, Alabama, Wisconsin, and Idaho -- that have enacted or introduced laws that would allow minors ages 14 to 17 to serve alcohol, according to a report from Economic Policy Institute.
Starting this month, JetBlue will serve non-alcoholic craft beer as a part of its inflight drink service, making it the first major US airline to do so. The announcement comes as the airline enters a partnership with Athletic Brewing Company.
When Pernod Ricard launched BarSmarts Advanced in 2008, attendees were required to pass an online course before attending a daylong seminar where industry notables like David Wondrich and Steve Olson offered spirits tastings and lessons in the fundamentals of drink-making. Now, 15 years, more than 155,000 registrants, and one global pandemic later, it looks quite different.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.--In Connecticut, grocers are pushing to be allowed to sell wine and are in turn encountering fierce opposition from so-called package stores. According to The Wall Street Journal, this is just one aspect of a nationwide move "to expand access to booze by changing alcohol regulations--some of which date to the end of Prohibition--that were suspended in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Buying alcohol online can seem like an easy and convenient option, but there are potential risks involved that you should be aware of.
Four in five complaints about alcoholic marketing and packaging in 2022 were concerned with their appeal to under-18s, a new report by the UK's Portman Group has found.
A more contrarian argument suggests prohibition was actually a success — pointing at dramatic reductions in alcohol consumption during and after the Prohibition Era, alongside declines in alcohol-related mortality and crime.
