While many Americans continue to live under some measure of quarantine, people have been drinking more at home. With restaurants and bars unlikely to reopen soon (if at all), and a near-guarantee of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, it seems the living room bar is here to stay.
Differences in prices of pints and cans of beer, behaviour of social drinkers and prevalence of subscription services claimed to be behind reduction of projections for growth of the UK alcoholic beverages market
Craft distilleries in the US are “barely hanging on” and face “severe financial hardship” unless immediate help is made available, the Distilled Spirits Council of the US (Discus) has warned.
As demand for hand sanitizer spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, American agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is supplying industrial ethyl alcohol to support production of hand sanitizer by North American distilled spirits producer Sazerac Company.
Remember when gift cards were going to save America’s bar and restaurant industry? The solution was first touted by major news outlets during the third week of March, after state governments mandated that bars and restaurants close their on-premise operations.
U.S. industry groups, confronted with the economic damage wrought by the pandemic, have started asking lawmakers for more targeted tax relief.
April and May are busy and exciting times on farms, with plants emerging from winter dormancy, and on-farm tilling, pruning, trellis building, twining, etc. Spring 2020 was shaping up to be the first year that total U.S. hop acres would surpass 60,000 in many decades.
In Brooklyn, New York, Rhodora Wine Bar evokes a neighborhood watering hole transported from Europe. Details like distressed wood, mismatched chairs and marble tables honed matte with wear suggest the passage of time.
Gin brand Hendrick’s has launched a social media programme to help bartenders return to work, called Pour it Forward.
Now key industry body Australian Grape & Wine (AGW) is reminding everyone involved in the industry that cash flow is essential to all businesses along the grape and wine supply chain.