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New Orleans Bartender Geoffrey Wilson Helps Others Find Power and Purpose

Imbibe Magazine

The organization was created to help historically underrepresented groups rise in the bar and liquor industries—not simply as pourers of beer and clearers of glassware, but as highly respected professionals in the field. And you could only go so far,” says Wilson, who has been a program manager and educator for Turning Tables since 2020.

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Like Making Music: The Secrets of Canadian Whisky with Found North Blender Nick Taylor

Drinkhacker

We started in 2020, right as Covid hit. We sent samples to Mission Liquor in California. Rye whisky from 2000 to 2020 was one of the fastest growing categories from a percentage standpoint, because in 2000 there were about a hundred thousand cases sold in the U.S. By 2020 when there were about 1.7

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Brandy and Cognac Trends for 2024

Cheers

million 9-liter cases, according the Beverage Information Group 2024 Liquor Handbook. During the past year, the Cognac category has stabilized and returned to pre-pandemic consumption levels before the spikes of 2020 and 2021, says Jennifer Pisciotta, global vice president of marketing at DUss. in 2023 to pre-Covid levels of 12.8

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Colin Asare-Appiah Is Reshaping the Bar World

Imbibe Magazine

After the social awakening of 2020 and George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, people started paying more attention. But it wasnt until after 2020 that people outside the Black and brown and queer communities took notice.” One day, the owner quizzed him, asking him where a certain bottle of liquor was from.

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The Definitive Timeline of Bourbon ‘Taters’

VinePair

The watershed event would be a 2016 release where over 1,000 people queued at a Liquor Barn in Kentucky — many for at least 48 hours — in the mere hope of scoring some Pappy. Craft Your Perfect Bourbon, first released in 2018), Weller Full Proof (2019), and Weller Single Barrel (2020). There was soon Weller C.Y.P.B.

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Telangana seeks pending excise duty from liquor suppliers

Spiritz

The Telangana State Beverages Corporation Limited (TSBCL) has issued notices to IMFL and beer suppliers, seeking the remaining 70 percent Excise Duty (ED) or Countervailing Duty (CVD) on drain out stock from depots for the period 2020-21 to 2022-23. The supplier had paid only 30 percent of Excise Duty instead of 100 percent.”

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The 10 Most Important Scotch Whiskies of the Last 25 Years

VinePair

Michael Goldstein, the owner of high-end New York spirits retailer Park Avenue Liquor, approached Compass Box founder John Glaser to create a custom blend for the store. When its first official whisky debuted in 2020, it had been in barrel for five years, nearly double the maturation length of most first-time brands.

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