Our Favorite Wines We Drank in 2021
For our final wine panel of 2021, we asked our panelists to recall and rate their favorite wines that they drank during the past year. Holiday season is a time of celebration, so this...
What Will Alcohol Retail Technology Look Like in 2022?
Alcohol retail technology boomed during the pandemic. Growth rates for these ecommerce companies spiked, with many reaching triple digits. Fueling this was a large number of consumers, stuck at home, who realized for the...
How Top Ten Liquors Grew a Successful Alcohol Retail Brand
When a corporate attorney in New York decided to move back home to the Twin Cities region in Minnesota, you might think he'd return to the career he'd previously known. After all, it’s a...
Podcast: The Future of Alcohol Retail Technology
In our latest podcast episode of On & Off, the leading alcohol trade podcast, we discuss the future of technology for alcohol retail and also the on-premise.
Editors Melissa Dowling and Kyle Swartz chat about...
The Top Alcohol Retail Tech for 2021-22
Technology was already important for beverage alcohol retailers before the pandemic. Now, with consumers more accustomed to buying everything online as they prefer quicker, efficient shopping, running the right tech at your business has...
Podcast: How to Become an Alcohol Journalist
This latest podcast episode isn't one of our own but an episode of Served Up, the podcast presented by Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits. It features Beverage Dynamics Editor Kyle Swartz and Cheers...
Industry Poll: Domestic Beer Declining is a Concern
The Beverage Information Group surveys our readers quarterly, collecting trends/sentiment data from distributors, on-premise and off-premise operators. For our third quarter 2021 survey, conducted in August, the rise in whiskey sales had the biggest...
A Lesson All Retailers Can Learn from Budweiser
“Why ask why? Try Bud dry” was a 1990 advertising campaign that was successful in the introduction of light lager beers. It is also a very useful phrase in your business.
Frequently we visit businesses...
New to Wine? Study France First!
It is almost impossible to make sense of the modern wine world without grasping the influential role played by France.
The French may not have been the first to make wine, and may no longer...
The Best Alcohol Gifts for 2021
Every year, Beverage Dynamics magazine publishes our guide of the best alcohol gifts for the coming holiday season.
This year's list of 27 items includes limited-edition offerings, value-added packs, seasonal treats, stocking stuffers and all-around...