Ireland’s whiskey distilleries are investing more in tourism as sales pick up pace, but the sector’s leading trade body claims there are three obstacles that could “devastate” the industry.
THE IRISH WHISKEY sector has been warned that it is too reliant on the US market – while alcohol producers as a whole should brace for future disruption from the legalised cannabis trade in the States.
While Italian wine producers have long been legally able to add sugar to their sparkling wines, during the production process, a duo of small-production Prosecco producers has been called out for over-adulterating reportedly 750,000 liters of Prosecco.
A customer pays for cannabis products at Essence Vegas Cannabis Dispensary in Las Vegas, Nevada.
25 YEARS AGO, BARRY TOPP, owner of the New Forest Cider Company, drove trucks filled with apple cider to sell at festivals all over the United Kingdom. There’s one festival in particular he reminisces about with great fondness: at the Royal Air Force Lakenheath base, which hosts American military personnel.
As the laws governing the use of cannabis continue to broaden in the US and other countries, beverage brands are increasingly investigating using the ingredient in products.
It’s been 17 days since the White House and Congress entered a stalemate over the southern border wall, causing a weeks-long partial government shutdown.
The future of wine has never looked so different. Humans have been drinking this ancient tipple out of glass bottles for hundreds of years.
Sazerac, the New Orleans-based family-owned spirits company, is continuing a programme of rapid expansion by buying an enhanced stake in India’s John Distilleries Private Limited (JDPL) from Gaja Capital, the private equity house.
Craft beer culture is constantly evolving and developing, and I, like many writers, like to take the New Year as an opportunity to recalibrate, examine what has recently happened, and speculate on what may be soon to come.