Once the undisputed kings of beer, AB InBev and MillerCoors are struggling to curtail a multi-year slump in sales of their top brands and re-energize brews that have failed to keep pace with changing consumer tastes and trends.
US spirits group Sazerac, maker of Corazón Tequila, has launched a website dedicated to agave education.
A Houston-based spirits company and its Dallas partners are being sued by the Jack Daniel's brand for allegedly lifting its trademarks for an "inferior" product.
Craft beer was forged out of a need for diversity. Before the craft revolution, everywhere you looked, American beer was pretty much the same: yellow and fizzy.
London gin producer Hayman’s has called for increased regulations governing the distillation and labelling of gin, stating that some distillers that are marketing expressions “that have little to no juniper character” are “misleading consumers”.
The price of wine is going up. Global wine production slumped to its lowest level in 60 years in 2017, according to data from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine.
The impact of tariffs being imposed overseas is being felt strongly in the East Bay, especially when it comes to reds and whites.
Booze and government taxes seem inexorably joined at the hip. Indeed, it is hard to find a government that didn’t see its domestic spirits industry as a lucrative source of cash.
When she took over as president of Domaine Carneros in 1987, Eileen Crane was one of the few women to lead a North Coast winery.
Draft beer now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all on-premise beer volume, according to the Beer Institute’s (BI) annual State-Level Packaging Report, released today.