Alcohol duty hikes will be put on ice for another six months until August in a boost for the hospitality trade.
The Treasury is expected to confirm today that it will delay a planned increase to booze levies which had been due to come into force in February.
The cost of going out drinking has increased ahead of Christmas, with wine, gin and whisky prices rising.
All alcohol prices rose last month at pubs, restaurants and cafes, with the cost of bitter and lager also up.
Pubs and breweries will face major financial losses and many will be forced to shut if the energy bill relief scheme is not extended for them beyond 31st March, new research shows.
Nip of Courage Wholesale (NOCW) has launched an online ‘Supplier Review Scorecard’ which allows for communication better NOCW and distilleries and highlights areas where a distillery is working well and other areas that could be improved.
Wednesday marks 100 years since Norway's Vinmonopolet was established, with the state-owned wine monopoly becoming a national institution in its century-long existence.
UK restaurants are going bust at a faster rate than during the Covid crisis owing to a "toxic mix" of surging energy costs, staff shortages and falling bookings.
Last week the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) passed Bill 53, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act, to address various administrative matters.
Moray Chamber of Commerce says the planned increase in alcohol duty in line with inflation will cost the region £80 million per year as the hospitality industry grapples with a perfect storm of rising costs.
People in their 20s and 30s who were moderate-to-heavy drinkers were more likely to have a stroke in early adulthood compared with those who consumed low amounts of alcohol each week, Korean national database records showed.
A Highland MSP is demanding Chancellor Jeremy Hunt U-turns on his plans to abandon a whisky tax freeze.
The SNP's Emma Roddick insisted the treasury must not increase the alcohol duty levy and warned it could put the sector at risk.