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Campari and Stirred Partner on Mobile App

A new app aims to teach consumers everything about cocktails. It also reflects perhaps the next step in relationships between alcohol producers and app designers. The Stirred online cocktail platform launches this month. Designed for...

What The Sessions Memo Means For Legal Cannabis

Editor's note: As the emerging U.S. cannabis industry may effect the alcohol industry, we occasionally crosspost content from our legal pot publication, Cannabis Regulator.  The future of America’s cannabis industry grew murkier last week when...

Imported Whisky Trends in 2018

While all the talk the past few years has been about the astounding rebirth of the American whiskey category, producers of many of the world’s best- known imported whiskeys are similarly counting their lucky...

Opici Wines Adds Three New Whiskey Brands

Market Street Spirits, a division of Opici Wines founded in 2014, has expanded by adding three new brands of whiskey. The new lines are: Tullibardine Single Malt Scotch Whiskies The Temple Bar Whiskies  Rebellion Bourbon...

Red Stripe Beer Readies For U.S. Growth After $16M Investment

Since Heineken acquired controlling stake of Red Stripe Beer in 2015 and returned production back to the brand’s Jamaican homeland in 2016, the company has embarked on an aggressive 10-year investment plan dedicated to...

Dogfish Head Announces Wood-Aged Bitches Brew, New Packaging

Three brews from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery will hit shelves in new forms in mid-January: Wood-Aged Bitches Brew, Romantic Chemistry, Lupu-Luau IPA and Namaste White. Additionally, the Delaware brewery has announced a release from its 2018...

Augmented Reality App Brings Walking Dead Wine Labels to Life

The Last Wine Company has introduced The Walking Dead Blood Red Blend and Cabernet Sauvignon, each featuring a label that responds to the Living Wine Labels app, an augmented reality innovation that brings labels...

Meet Jaiker Soto, Who’s Innovating Rum For Modern Palates

Jaiker Soto is the creative mind behind some of the more innovative premium rums made today. As master blender at Destileria Serralles, makers of Don Q, he oversees production of a wide variety of rums...

How Macadoodles Built a Customer-Focused Retail Powerhouse

There’s only one boss: the customer. That was the philosophy of legendary entrepreneur Sam Walton, who founded both the Walmart and Sam’s Club retail chains. Walton’s customer-centric approach to business is something he passed along...

Coravin Unveils New Bluetooth-Enabled Model, Wine App

The global wine-tech company Coravin will expand its line of products with the bluetooth-connected wine preservation opener, the Coravin Model Eleven. In conjunction with the Model Eleven, the company is also launching a wine experience app,...