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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. In the last 10 years, you have all of these non-whisky categories like rum and agave being consumed by serious whisky drinkers under the conditions of transparency. Look at Foursquare Rum. We sent samples to Mission Liquor in California. By 2020 when there were about 1.7

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We Celebrate 90 Years of Hood River Distillers with President and CEO David Ballew

Chilled Magazine

In 2020, generational family member Ronald Dodge, Executive Vice Chair, handed the reins of the company to industry veteran David Ballew, who was subsequently named President and CEO in 2022. Hood River Distillers, Oregon’s first distillery celebrates nearly a century of crafting award-winning spirits from the bounty of the Pacific Northwest.

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Indri Indian Whisky – Your Complete Guide to Exploring This Rising Star

The Whiskey Wash

The majority of Indian spirits labeled as ‘whisky’ are closer to rum due to being distilled from molasses, falling within a category of alcohol termed as Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL), and are marketed to domestic Indian consumers. The Camikara cane juice rum brand was launched in 2022. Sharma in 1953.

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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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Diageo Acquires Ritual Zero Proof

Cheers

Today, the brand’s portfolio contains alternatives to whiskey, tequila, gin, rum and aperitif, which can all be substituted one-to-one with traditional spirits to create non-alc versions of well-known recipes. In fiscal year 2020, Diageo acquired a minority stake in Ritual through Distill Ventures.

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The Ultimate Guide To Craft Mocktails For Dry January

A Bar Above

Surprisingly, the origin word “mocktail” doesn’t come from a sober mixologist but instead from a 1979 Libbey Glass advertisement targeting both alcohol-drinkers and those who abstain from liquor. However, as reflected in the 2020 Cocktail Trends Report , the #1 trend is low/no alcohol drinks. Not very appealing options.

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Beware the ‘Gonster,’ Social Media’s Viral Guinness-Monster Mashup

VinePair

As early as 2020, however, well-followed Irish TikToker Daragh Curran began posting his own Guinness and Monster mash-ups. He next tried his first Guinness and Monster , in September 2020, and thought it was only marginally better. By late 2020, quite a few other Irish and U.K.-based Today he has over 400,000 followers.)

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