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Wine has emerged as the UK’s favourite alcoholic tipple, according to a survey released by Wine Drinkers UK.
In the late 1980s, Booker Noe, grandson of Jim Beam, was royally pissed off. American whiskey makers had been beaten to a pulp by vodka, rum and tequila producers for two decades, and had been forced to cut down their whiskey’s strength as a result.
Despite Colorado legalizing recreational marijuana in 2012, there remains a persistent taboo surrounding marijuana use.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Beer continues to be the alcoholic beverage U.S. drinkers say they drink most often; but, for the first time in Gallup trends, liquor essentially ties wine in second place.
Molson Coors Brewing Co.'s newly appointed chief executive is already developing a plan to address a change in consumer tastes away from beer to compete with trendy new products like spiked seltzers and cannabis-infused drinks.
Distilled spirits continue to take a bite out of beer and wine in the American drinking market. In fact, 2018 marked the ninth straight year of record sales and volumes, increasing to $27.5 billion of supplier sales — or 37.4 percent of the total alcoholic beverage market.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to tax French wines in retaliation for the country's digital services tax, in a move that has heightened concerns among French wine producers over their access to the US market.
You get what you pay for. It’s a common cliché that fits nicely into the craft beer formula. Small breweries take the extra time, employ more labor-intensive techniques, use extra ingredients (like five times the malt, for instance) and give customers a personal, localized experience that inevitably costs more per beer.
Much as ESPN revolutionized the TV sports-watching experience in the 1980s and Food Network turned the United States into a culinary-obsessed nation in the ‘90s, the face of a one-of-a-kind streaming entertainment network devoted to drinking spirits anticipates the new endeavor will change the way we buy and understand alcoholic beverages for generations to come.