The Distilled Spirits Council reported its ninth straight year of record spirits sales and volumes on Tuesday. Supplier sales were up over 5.1 percent, rising $1.3 billion to a total of $27.5 billion, while volumes rose 2.2 percent to 231 million cases, up 5.0 million cases from the prior year.
While mezcal remains tiny compared to its better-known cousin, Tequila, its consumption has risen dramatically over the past five years, with 288,000 cases depleted in the U.S.
For the past several years, as the movement to legalize marijuana spread across the country, Mark Gorman heard a familiar refrain emerging from advocates who are supporting measures to approve medical or recreational cannabis use.
Americans love to tip — as in we tend to tip more people more money than other cultures: Tip the waiter, tip the hairdresser, tip the taxi driver, tip the doorman… It goes on and on.
UK sales of beer rose to their highest level in 45 years last year, the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has said, driven by last year’s good weather and the World Cup .
Flavour modulators are food ingredients that help mask the taste, aroma, and feel of the finished product in order to make it tasty and flavourful. Flavour modulators are gaining traction from consumers belonging to different age groups.
CHICAGO, Feb. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Adult beverages play a huge part in attracting customers and the on-premise channel is vital to an alcohol brand's success.
A new market could soon be materializing for buckwheat. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has published proposed new rules to modernize the labelling and advertising regulations for wine, distilled spirits and malt beverages.
As recently as 25 years ago, you’d have been hard-pressed to find any comprehensive demographic data about whiskey drinkers. The internet was in its nascent stages, and besides, few if any websites back then were devoted to analyzing the adult beverage industry.
Michigan-based Bell’s Brewery Inc. has stopped shipping its beers to the entire Virginia market as part of an unresolved distribution dispute with the nation’s largest beer distributor.