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.
Pernod Ricard India, the most profitable liquor company in the country, is banking on India’s changing demographics and rapid urbanisation to fuel its growth here.
LYNCHBURG, Tenn. (WTVF) — Down at Jack Daniel’s in Lynchburg, they pride themselves on making great whiskey, but a select number of Jack Daniel’s employees also pride themselves on keeping the distillery and town safe from any potential fires.
Low and no-alcohol serves have become a major force in the drinks industry. But while beer, cider and spirits have taken off in this sector, wine is lagging behind. Edith Hancock discovers what is powering this revolution.
A Lovingston distillery producing single-malt whiskey is being sued in the U.S. District Court of Delaware by a Scotland-based trade association for using on beverage labels words traditionally associated with whiskey produced in Scotland.
The microbrewery market is built on innovation — innovation in flavors, business models and even beer names. Yet this modern, clever and adaptable industry is beholden to some comparatively old rules, regulations and laws.
On July 5, 2019, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (“TTB”) issued TTB Industry Circular 2019-2 advising that certain eligible beer, wine, and spirits wholesalers and importers shall have until December 31, 2019 to disclose previously unreported changes in control or change in proprietorship of the wholesaler’s business without civil or criminal penalties for failure to disclose such changes within thirty (30) days as required by 27 U.S.C.A. § 204.