VinePair

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It’s safe to say that the craft beer boom has now reached nearly every corner of the globe. This year’s list of the best beer destinations recognizes cities with up-and-coming craft scenes, many of which have exploded in recent years. Head to the taproom for crisp, low-ABV brews marked by notes of tropical fruits and citrus.

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VinePair

JUNE 23, 2024

But beer tourism? Even then, taking a vacation devoted to beer is a harder thing to justify. Nonetheless, there are stellar breweries around the country that bring beer nerds to their taprooms every year to score their most coveted releases. Wine tourism is a bonafide industry. Curating such a list is no small feat.

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VinePair

JANUARY 19, 2024

Go to any bottle shop these days and you’re bound to be greeted by a respectable section devoted to non-alcoholic offerings. Beer has arguably pulled off the NA feat best, cracking the zero proof code and producing genuinely drinkable options that resemble real styles. Making a good non-alcoholic wine was never going to be easy.

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VinePair

MARCH 29, 2024

s leading non-alcoholic retail chain could allegedly be shuttering all its locations as soon as this Sunday. Boisson opened its first retail location in New York in February 2021, and in August 2022, the brand announced its plans for expansion after receiving $12 million in seed funding. appeared first on VinePair.

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VinePair

AUGUST 29, 2024

But at the Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner, Texas, the vast majority of sales come from a very different beer style. Seven out of every 10 beers we sell is Shiner Bock,” says Nick Weiland, the brewery’s brand director. Although the dominance of India Pale Ale has led to memes, rants, and Reddit posts about craft beer’s homogeneity, the U.S.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since it arrived there in 1929, Coke and its many rivals have carved out a unique place in Germany’s drinks culture, particularly its beer culture — from the popularity of Spezi , a cola-based non-alcoholic drink made by South German breweries, to the national inclination to blend Coke with beer. It remains the market leader.

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VinePair

JANUARY 13, 2025

According to IWSR data , during the two-year stretch from 2019 to 2021, U.S. From 2021 to 2023, Champagne sales declined by 7 percent annually while Prosecco maintained an annual growth rate above 5 percent. Champagne sales grew by 11 percent annually while Prosecco saw a slightly slower 10 percent growth rate during the same period.

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VinePair

MARCH 26, 2024

The years-long saga between Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) and Constellation over the definition of beer continues. On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a jury’s March 2023 ruling that hard seltzer is beer. When Grupo Modelo provided Constellation with a license to sell those beer brands in the U.S.,

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The social media era may be coming to an end, but the residual marketing power that The Platforms™️ deliver to small businesses in general and beer brands in particular will likely stick around for awhile after normies deactivate their accounts and the extremely online depart for digital walled gardens. Matt Brewing Company.

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VinePair

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2021, the U.S. In 2021, Americans drank over 935 million gallons of wine, according to new data from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). In 2021, Americans drank over 935 million gallons of wine, according to new data from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

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Dry Atlas

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Since 2021, I’ve closely followed the non-alcoholic (NA) beer space and witnessed the rise of small-to-medium-sized breweries crafting their own NA beers, often serving them locally or in taprooms, with some even expanding into national distribution. Their Red Martian IPA and West Coast IPA are among the best I’ve had.

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VinePair

JANUARY 18, 2024

I make my bones writing about beer, not making it, and I make an effort to respect the very real boundaries between the two. One year ago, I took to VinePair’s digital pages to rebuke craft beer brewers and enthusiasts who spent this popular annual rite of abstinence complaining about breweries’ lost sales on social media.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Every morning, my email inbox cues up yet another dirge of reports on grape gluts , government bailouts , bankruptcies , and generational reckonings for wine and alcohol in general. The sky is falling , or at least that’s the sense one gets when reading wine industry news over the past year. A Quick Buck or the Long Haul?

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VinePair

JUNE 4, 2024

In 2021, the duo introduced the 3.75 percent ABV Funny Water , carving a new niche in non-carbonated alcoholic drinks that, unlike wine or most cocktails, aren’t too strong. Twisted Tea , which is owned by Boston Beer Company , has become a category-defining behemoth with broadly appealing flavors and, like iced tea, zero carbonation.

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VinePair

JANUARY 30, 2024

This pub, reopened in November last year, is run by Dubliner Oisín Rogers and Guinness has quickly become a central part of its appeal: More than 60 percent of the beer sold here is Ireland’s famous stout. Now it’s the most fashionable beer in the country, a social-media staple, a key part of many young drinkers’ online personalities.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

annually collaborates with Venture Snowboards on a Ska-themed snowboard that might feature its logo, dapper skeleton mascot, or a new beer. She was like, ‘That was my favorite beer. To this day, it’s still one of our favorite beers that we’ve made.” The beer industry is simultaneously complex and simple. They high-fived.

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Dry Atlas

JANUARY 22, 2024

Mikey shares his journey from a seasoned bar industry professional to the non-alcoholic beer space. Mikey discusses the challenges of crafting a non-alcoholic beer that rivals traditional brews in taste and quality, plus his vision for making non-alcoholic options a norm in social settings. It was a throwaway.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Molson Coors pulled the line from its portfolio in the summer of 2021. According to news outlet Milwaukee Business Journal , sales of premium light beers like Miller Lite have taken a dip as of late, but the “below-premium category,” which includes Miller High Life Light, has been booming.

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VinePair

MARCH 12, 2024

Earlier this year, as Keith Wedeking began building a garage at his house in Cedar Falls, Iowa, he resolved to drink a rare beer upon completing the project. Hoarding is familiar behavior in beverage alcohol, from loading car trunks with Tree House IPAs or stocking cellars with bourbon from W.L. I stockpiled it just so I would have it.”

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Dry Atlas

JULY 31, 2024

By Mike Gurr, Vice President of Operations at Gruvi For 15 years, I was deeply immersed in the world of craft beer. My trajectory in the beer industry—marked first by unbridled enthusiasm, a period of stagnation, and then great uncertainty—in many ways mirrors the industry’s own evolution.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

In 2021, Parker invested in Champagne Jeeper , a 1949 estate, and Provençal winery Château La Mascaronne. I was not a big fan of hard alcohol. We spoke with Parker about bringing French wine culture to early-aughts Texas, the proliferation of NBA wine enthusiasts, and which wine he always drinks on vacation.

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VinePair

JULY 12, 2024

On the less exciting end of the Olympic milestone spectrum, this will be the second Summer Games in a row where alcohol won’t be available for sale or purchase at stadium venues, following 2021’s events in Tokyo. Corona Cero will also serve as the International Olympic Committee’s global beer sponsor in 2026 and 2028.

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Dry Atlas

JUNE 5, 2024

This simple phrase is our most-used slogan at Proxies, the brand I co-founded in 2021. But if Proxies aren’t wine, does that mean they’re not non-alcoholic wine either? What is non-alcoholic wine? What is non-alcoholic wine? Typically, non-alcoholic wine is made by first making wine, then dealcoholizing it.

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Cheers

JANUARY 26, 2024

Baby Boomers began drinking less wine — and less alcohol in general — while younger consumers continued to explore other beverage alcohol categories. Growth remained stalled in 2019, but rebounded in 2021, as the on-premise returned with Covid-19 fading. Gen Xers and Millennials have grown up in an entirely different world.

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Dry Atlas

JULY 31, 2024

By Mike Gurr, Vice President of Operations at Gruvi For 15 years, I was deeply immersed in the world of craft beer. My trajectory in the beer industry—marked first by unbridled enthusiasm, a period of stagnation, and then great uncertainty—in many ways mirrors the industry’s own evolution.

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VinePair

MARCH 4, 2024

But new data from Secret Hopper — a shopping service for craft beer businesses — suggests that age plays a major role in how much guests are tipping at taprooms. 1, 2021 to Nov. Bureau of Labor Statistics , the average age of hospitality industry employees working in places serving alcohol is 35.2 According to the U.S.

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VinePair

JANUARY 11, 2024

For all its vagaries and complexity, the United States is the most lucrative and influential beer market in the world, and Japan’s rice-lager leviathans have wanted in for quite some time. Suntory, which despite its full-proof reputation is a top Japanese beer supplier, tied up with distiller Beam in 2014; Sapporo acquired Anchor Brewing Co.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

China’s thirst for American craft beer hasn’t yet peaked (unlike Americans’ own) and its drinkers’ interest is piqued. China’s higher-end beer market also returned to growth in [the first half of] 2023 vs 2022, boosted by strong performances from local brands, and from international products in the reopening on-premise.”

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Dry Atlas

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Will consumer appetite for non-alcoholic spirits, wines, and beers follow the same trajectory? Beyond Meat shares are down 90% over the past five years, and Impossible Foods employees have seen their shares drop 89% from 2021 to 2023. The challenge remains for products that closely resemble traditional alcoholic beverages.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

While draft beer sales have been sluggishly sagging even after the post-pandemic reset — not to mention the questions swirling around the safety of non-alcoholic beer on tap — kegged wine and cocktails are having a moment. But in March 2023, I tried the Ridge 2021 ‘Three Valleys’ from a freshly tapped keg.

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VinePair

JULY 18, 2024

Fine wine also can and increasingly is being profitably sold in the land of where rum and beer reign supreme. From 2017 to 2021, overall wine exports increased by a whopping 67.2 Over the past decade, many countries have evolved from a predominant rum and beer culture to embracing fine wines,” he says.

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The Whiskey Wash

APRIL 6, 2024

In 1835, Dyer’s brewery operations were transferred to the Solan site, as an expanding population around Kasauli resulted in a shortage of spring water for beer production. In 1993, the Piccadily Group expanded into alcohol manufacturing and distilling, building one of India’s largest malt plants at the Indri distillery in 2010.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This represents the second year in a row that spirits supplier revenues have surpassed beer. The spirits sector showed resilience in 2023, navigating through the choppy wake of the pandemic and maintaining our market share lead of the total beverage alcohol market,” said DISCUS president/CEO Chris Swonger. or $476 million totaling $6.5

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Whether it’s a proper airport pint , deep pour of Savvy-B , or the classic airport Martini , we’ve always had trusty alcohol to take the edge off of a day of discomfort. They can [be] and were amplified by alcohol. Yet now, even the seemingly God-given right to get tipsy at the terminal is being called into question.

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Dry Atlas

MAY 29, 2024

By Lars Miller, creator of Herbal Profiles I first tried a cannabis beverage, Cann , in 2021 from a regulated dispensary in Chicago. So, when I went back home, I continued to drink alcohol. I was drinking more cannabis beverages (and non-alcoholic beers) and less alcohol. Subscribe here.

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Cheers

APRIL 2, 2024

Canadian whisky has unique differences among consumer demographics when compared to other whiskey categories, according to a 2022 MRI-Simmons USA National Consumer Study on the beverage alcohol that participants drank in the past six months. The survey found that Canadian whisky appeals to more women than any other whiskey, with 41.8%

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Dry Atlas

JANUARY 22, 2024

Mikey shares his journey from a seasoned bar industry professional to the non-alcoholic beer space. Mikey discusses the challenges of crafting a non-alcoholic beer that rivals traditional brews in taste and quality, plus his vision for making non-alcoholic options a norm in social settings. It was a throwaway.

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