Beer Remains Favorite Drink For U.S. Consumers, Wine Gains Ground
While consumers increasingly alternate between alcohol categories depending on the drinking occasion, everyone has a favorite beverage to sip on – and overall that remains beer.
For nearly four in ten regular drinkers (U.S. LDA consumers who...
How West Cork Is Innovating Irish Whiskey
Irish whiskey is traditionally smoother than its bolder cousin, Bourbon. But that doesn’t mean the spirit is less flavorful — or less innovative.
A new Irish whiskey brand exemplifies this creativity. West Cork Distillers opened...
Why Imported Whisky Is Booming
Lost beneath the hubbub about the boom in American whiskey are some exceptional numbers in the U.S. for the rest of the world’s whiskies. For example, while the spirits industry has grown accustomed to...
United States Beverage Partners With Empire Brewing, 1911 Established
Beer company United States Beverage announced this week two new partnership deals with Empire Brewing and 1911 Established.
United States Beverage will handle sales for Empire Brewing in the U.S. The brewery was founded in 1994 in Syracuse, New York, and has partnered...
Hiro Sake Announces New California Distributor
Hiro Sake has announced a new distribution partner in California.
Effective February 1, 2017, the Japanese sake brand will be distributed by the Henry Wine Group, a division of Winebow.
Hiro was previously distributed by Western Beverages and Jalisco...
How A Tiny Tennessee Distillery Taught Advertising Lessons To Madison Avenue
“I didn’t know we owned land in Tennessee,” our then-teenage son greeted us when my wife and I returned home one evening. “The Sheriff of Moore County called. Said there were poachers on our...
Gruppo Campari Buys Bulldog Gin
Gruppo Campari announced today the signing of an agreement to acquire Bulldog London Dry Gin.
The purchase price was $55 million, plus working capital and assumed liabilities for another $3.4 million.
Campari has distributed Bulldog since 2014 through its own...
10 Craft Beer Trends In 2017
One craft beer trend is certain for 2017: it's boom time.
For the first time in history craft beer has surpassed a 10% share of the overall U.S. beer industry. This is still a category on the rise....
SpikedSeltzer Expands Into 11 U.S. Markets
SpikedSeltzer, a pioneer in the hard seltzer category, announced this week that it is expanding from New England, New York and New Jersey into the Mid-Atlantic, southeast and south.
The brand will now be available in...
Guinness Brewery Planned For Maryland
Diageo today announced its intention to build a U.S. version of Dublin’s Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Baltimore County, Maryland.
As currently planned, the company would build a mid-sized Guinness brewery and a Guinness visitor...