Vancouver council is considering the city's first-ever applications for a new kind of licence enabling something that would seem completely unremarkable in many cities around the world: an establishment that serves food during the day, then shuts down the kitchen in the evening to become a bar.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Nowadays, it seems like just about anything can be bought online and delivered to your door, but a COVID-era Arkansas law allowing alcohol deliveries from stores could soon be repealed.
Several spirit and beverage companies announced that they have no plans to raise prices amid government scrutiny suggesting the industry could be targeted by anti-inflation measures.
The Saputo family, one of most prominent beverage and beer distribution families in Florida, is changing its leadership structure.
When Pernod Ricard launched BarSmarts Advanced in 2008, attendees were required to pass an online course before attending a daylong seminar where industry notables like David Wondrich and Steve Olson offered spirits tastings and lessons in the fundamentals of drink-making. Now, 15 years, more than 155,000 registrants, and one global pandemic later, it looks quite different.
Drinking alcohol grew into a socially acceptable activity in multiple societies, starting in the Neolithic period. From the earliest traces of brewing, which happened about 10,000 years ago, to former trade negotiations and family celebrations – the use of alcohol intertwined with people's everyday life.
As Coloradans browse the aisles of their local grocery and convenience stores in March, looking for the right loaf of bread or reasonably priced eggs, they will soon have a new option for soothing their inflation-squeezed shopping experience: wine.
Michigan's up north vineyards years ago earned a reputation for producing world-class white wines, but vintners are increasingly planting reds across the region as demand grows and climate change brings often warmer and even longer summer growing seasons.
From concerned parents to wholesalers and state lawmakers, soda-alcohol crossover products are causing quite a stir. Now, a proposed set of state bills could legally regulate the retail placement of RTDs such as Hard Mtn Dew and Simply Spiked Lemonade.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.--In Connecticut, grocers are pushing to be allowed to sell wine and are in turn encountering fierce opposition from so-called package stores. According to The Wall Street Journal, this is just one aspect of a nationwide move "to expand access to booze by changing alcohol regulations--some of which date to the end of Prohibition--that were suspended in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic."