BENGALURU - The year 2017 was perhaps one of the most difficult for the $35-billion Indian liquor industry. Prohibition, highway liquor ban and introduction of GST took the industry down several notches.
Scotland’s new 50p minimum alcohol unit price, which will come into effect on 1 May 2018, will raise the average price of sparkling wine and perry by 116% and the price of cider by 90%, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) revealed on Friday.
Groups representing Kentucky distillers, brewers, and wholesalers are funding more than $10,000 in free rides for Kentucky residents. The goal? To ensure safety on the roads in the closing weeks of 2017.
A bill that would revoke the licenses of repeat drunken drivers passed out of an Assembly committee on Tuesday.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation, according to the bill, would be required to revoke a person’s driver’s license if they commit four or more drunken driving offenses, or if they commit two or more drunken driving offenses along with two or more "qualifying convictions."
The number of U.S. deaths at work from unintentional drug and alcohol overdoses jumped more than 30% in 2016, according to new government data, showing that the nation’s struggle with a deadly opioid epidemic is migrating to the workplace.
The Brewers Association reported that that the number of breweries in the U.S. has risen to 6,000. “Craft brewers continue to thrive if at a slower pace, fueled by a passionate community dedicated to bringing innovation, jobs, and beer across America—on Main Street and beyond,” said Bart Watson, chief economist, Brewers Association.
Marketing fads develop rapidly, almost explosively. But they are transitory, flaming out quickly. Longer-term trends usually unfold more slowly, like the petals of a flower opening in spring.
The Beer Institute (BI) and the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) have made an early New Year’s resolution: improve beer category health.
Professor David Nutt, previously chairman of the United Kingdom’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and now teaching at Imperial College, believes that having a hangover after an episode of binge drinking would soon be a thing of the past.
Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 18th Amendment banning the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol in the United States.
The amendment, which led to Prohibition, received a thumbs-up vote from U.S. Rep. W.W. Griest, who represented Lancaster County at the time. It was ratified in 1919 and went into effect in January 1920.