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JUNE 13, 2025

China launched its investigation last year after receiving complaints of brandy dumping from the China Liquor Industry Association. The investigation, launched on 5 January 2024 and initially due to last one year, was expected to be completed by 5 April. Sign up for our daily news round-up!

Brandy

Spiritz

MARCH 28, 2024

In a bid to strengthen liquor pricing framework and manage the alcohol consumption in the state, Assam’s excise department announced a hike in alcohol prices in all categories with effect from 1st April 2024. As per the reports, minimum beer prices in the state are set to increase ranging from Rs 33 to 43 per 650 ml bottle.

Liquor

Cheers

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Beer sales have been less than desirable as of late, to put it mildly. beer industry’s volume consumption decreased 4.4% gallon cases, according to the Beverage Information Group’s 2024 Industry Overview. Customers go and try these poorly constructed beers that are very expensive, and so they think they’re wasting their money.

Beer

Spiritz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

The Odisha government has decided not to sanction any new liquor off-shop during 2024-25, under its new excise policy. In a bid to boost tourism, the policy mandates that the Tourism Department of Odisha must grant approval for liquor sales at beaches and other tourism hotspots like eco-retreat, based on necessity and demand.

Liquor

Spiritz

MARCH 12, 2024

In Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 370 out of 1,046 liquor shops have been allocated to women entrepreneurs for the fiscal 2024-25. Women entrepreneurs, who have been allotted liquor vends, will assume control over more than one-third of the liquor business in the city from 1st April, 2024.

Liquor

Spiritz

JANUARY 29, 2024

State run Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) has announced a hike on all categories of liquor with effect from 1st February 2024. TASMAC is mandated to sell liquor in Tamil Nadu. New hike on retail liquor price in Tamil Nadu will be ranging from Rs 10 to Rs 80 under different categories.

Liquor

Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

For example, if you are a tiki bar, then you want your menu to reflect cocktails, liquors, beers, and flavors that match a tropical and Caribbean theme, i.e. rums and frozen drinks. The flavors and style of your drinks and product selection should reflect your concept or theme.

Bar

Spiritz

MARCH 4, 2024

Telangana government has issued a set of instructions to implement GPS tracking of IMFL / beer / ENA consignments to prevent theft or diversion and Gio fencing of routes. The post Telangana makes liquor consignment tracking with GPS mandatory appeared first on Spiritz Magazine.

Liquor

Spiritz

JULY 28, 2024

With a goal to cross the targeted growth in state excise collection by the end of the 2024-25 fiscal, the West Bengal government is thinking on the possibility of increasing the prices of different liquor and beer brands in the state. 5 for a 600 ml bottle and the state government might increase beer prices by Rs.

Liquor

Spiritz

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Under Uttar Pradesh’s new excise policy for the upcoming fiscal year, effective from April 1, 2024, beer vends in the state will be eligible to apply for an exclusive drinking area. Liquor shop sale timings would also be extended by an hour, till 11pm on Christmas eve on 24th December as well as New Year’s Eve on 31st December.

Beer

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 10, 2024

They started out in CDMX in 2015 and have had a couple collabs with Pilot Project’s Brewers Kitchen brand in the last year, but now they’re rolling out some beers stateside with the PP team. Now, onto something less fun but also less surprising: It looks like West Lakeview Liquors is finally closing.

Craft Beer

VinePair

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With few exceptions, 2023 was a no good, very bad year for the entire American beer business writ large. Draft beer and sustainability were out, iterative juice bombs and portfolio firesales were in. In reverse order from mediocre to flat-out terrible, here are the eight worst stories from another bummer year for American beer.

Beer

VinePair

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While it’s usually a time when big beer and alcohol companies put their marketing dollars to work in an attempt to strike a chord with the masses, this year, we only got four beer ads this year— two before Usher’s halftime performance, and two after. Plus, there wasn’t a single liquor or wine ad. Not so much.

Beer

Spiritz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has greenlit a new excise policy for the upcoming fiscal year, effective from April 1, 2024. As part of the policy changes, the excise duty on country-made liquor will witness a Rs 5 increase starting from the specified date. Nevertheless, there is an expected 10 percent rise in license fees for all retailers.

Liquor

Spiritz

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The Andhra Pradesh government has implemented a 2 percent cess on all liquor categories as part of its new liquor policy, which takes effect from 16 th October 2024. The cess will be imposed on Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), foreign-made liquor, beer, wine, and ready-to-drink beverages.

Liquor

Spiritz

APRIL 9, 2024

Punjab’s liquor vends in certain areas of the state are facing shortage of popular liquor brands of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL).The The state has a total of 236 excise groups, comprising approximately 6,374 vends, excluding model shops, sub-vends, and stand-alone beer shops.

Liquor

Spiritz

JULY 18, 2024

According to a notification dated July 10, 2024, a new duty of Rs 5 per bulk litre has been imposed on extra neutral alcohol (ENA), essential for producing India Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) like whisky, vodka, and rum. The strong beer segment will see an increase of 20-30 percent, and the mild beer segment by up to 40 percent.

Alcohol

VinePair

DECEMBER 12, 2024

People would say, Less calories, less carbs less beer? The American beer aisle is virtually unrecognizable compared to the one Michelob Ultra entered 22 years ago, but the general wisdom still applies. You really want a cold beer, [and] you want it cold the whole time: Mini Ripper. (A It didnt go well. Kimberly A.

Craft Beer

The Whiskey Wash

MAY 17, 2024

Modernizing Oregon’s Liquor Laws” The partnership between Heritage Distilling Company and the Coquille Indian Tribe is the culmination of the overturning of a 188 year old Federal law that banned Native American tribes from distilling spirits on tribal lands. The distillery is the first to be established on Native American tribal lands.

Liquor

PubClub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“We have the best views in town for ringing in 2024,” said Hilton Complex General Manager Peter Hart. San Francisco has fireworks over the bay for New Year’s Eve. Tickets to the Cityscape NYE party are $200 and $1,500 for a VIP corner seating table.

Bar

Bar Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

LONDON, APRIL 2024: Imbibe Live, the UK’s premier event for the drinks industry, promises to captivate and educate attendees with an array of newly curated content. Beer Specialists: Explore craft and mainstream beer developments, brewing innovations, and taste the future of beer.

Sommelier

VinePair

MAY 16, 2024

Once home, a pint glass in hand, I pour approximately 8 ounces of the Slimer-green taurine bomb before carefully floating 8 ounces of dark-ruby-red-colored beer on top of it. Popular beer meme account Dont Drink Beer posted the exact same image on the platform, racking up 1.3 million views. Today he has over 400,000 followers.)

Stout

VinePair

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In the 1980s at 24, he was teaching high school English when his father asked for his help operating a small local liquor store called Liquor Outlet. A few years later, Lewis was the owner of the Liquor Outlet, which had since expanded to six stores and was rebranded as The Party Source.

Whiskey

Spiritz

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A thoughtful and incisive discussion, the session addressed pressing topics such as the need for market-driven pricing of alcohol brands, initiatives to simplify industry regulations, and the call to remove Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA) used in liquor manufacturing from the GST framework.

Liquor

Dry Atlas

MAY 29, 2024

I was drinking more cannabis beverages (and non-alcoholic beers) and less alcohol. The cannabis beverage market is projected to reach $117 billion by 2032, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 58% from 2024 to 2032. I loved it. After moving to Florida in 2023, I started regularly ordering Cann and discovering new brands, too.

Liquor

PubClub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Ultimate 2024 Big Game Tailgate” at AZILO Ultra Pool Doors for “The Ultimate 2024 Big Game Tailgate” at AZILO Ultra Pool will open at 12 p.m. Available for $140 per person is the beverage package, including unlimited premium liquor, beer, hard seltzer and prosecco until halftime. Tickets will be on sale soon.

VIP

PubClub

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The 2024 Sugar Bowl is Jan. There are beer and liquor stores along the Strip and of course, it’s legal to drink in the street. The Sugar Bowl teams, alumni and students are all in town which just adds to the fun. Going up and down Bourbon Street is the call but at midnight be at the ball drop in Jackson Square.

Pub

PubClub

APRIL 3, 2024

Schedule between Boston (BOS) and Paris (CDG) Daily service starting April 3, 2024 (Eastbound) & April 4, 2024 (Westbound) *all times local BOS – CDG Flight #33 CDG – BOS Flight #34 8:00 p.m. – Core customers also enjoy a free selection of soft drinks, coffee, tea, beer, wine and liquor. Book by 4/4/2024.

Customer Service

PubClub

MAY 22, 2024

Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) will operate through September 30, 2024, bringing JetBlue’s signature low-fares and great service to the United Kingdom’s second most popular tourism destination. Travel 5/28/2024 – 7/31/2024. Daily summer-seasonal service from New York’s John F. 9:30 a.m. (+1)

Promotion

Dry Atlas

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Initially conceived as a medicinal liquor, gin has its roots in the juniper-infused spirits produced by monks and alchemists across the continent. The spirit’s popularity was further amplified due to a series of legislative acts that made it easier and more profitable to produce gin rather than beer or wine.

Gin

Dry Atlas

APRIL 24, 2024

That said, here are six of the best overall non-alc spirit brands as of April 2024: Cut Above A recent entrant into the non-alc industry, Cut Above is already a customer favorite at Spirited Away. You don’t have to be a mixologist to realize that leaves you with just ginger beer and lime, hardly a complex, adult cocktail.

Alcohol

VinePair

MARCH 28, 2024

The locals pride themselves on surviving through it, but the 2024 season has not measured up to the apocalyptic standard. Rich and complex, Russian imperial stouts are differentiated from other dark beers by both strength and apocrypha. In 2001, the resultant beer, Czar Jack, was born.

Stout

Cheers

JANUARY 23, 2024

Trend picks and predictions for 2024 began rolling in late last year, and we’ve poured over numerous reports. They will keep on coming in 2024, but as with the hard seltzer boom of a few years ago, the market can’t support them all, and the impact of RTDs on the on-premise is still unclear. “A

Gin

VinePair

JANUARY 5, 2024

Hop Take’s first full calendar year is in the books, and the beer industry is worse off than it was 12 months prior. Sure, the American beer business got it from all directions in 2023 , and I think there’s more trouble ahead. Boston Beer Co.’s Spring resets will hit in March 2024, and America’s No.

Beer

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 4, 2024

I realized midway through last week that I didn’t update y’all on the results of my expedition to find signs of life in five Chicago-based beer brands. Their beer recipe was brewed on Stone Brewing’s 120bbl system and distributed to nearly two-dozen states. Per Axios, NA beers had a big January in Detroit.

Beer

VinePair

JUNE 28, 2024

In June 2023, it was announced that attendees of the 2024 Paris Olympics would be prohibited from drinking alcohol at events unless they were VIPs. Alko solicited the aid of Finnish beverage company Hartwall to develop lonkero — a pre-mixed, carbonated, proto-RTD consisting of liquor and fruit — specifically for the games.

Brandy

VinePair

MARCH 7, 2024

The most exciting challenge in years to the most boring part of the beer industry has ended. I’ve never had much luck getting the American drinking public to care about the machinations and intrigue of the beer industry’s middle tier. 24, 2024, Hard MTN Dew is up 3.5 As in, nonexistent. percent in volume.

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