Louisiana: Drizly Brings Alcohol Delivery to New Orleans
Drizly™, the technology company powering fast, convenient beer, wine and liquor delivery for consumers and businesses across the U.S., today announced the launch of its delivery service in New Orleans. Powered by partnerships with Brady's Wine Warehouse and Pearl...
Beer with Lots of Protein – The Moderately Mighty Squirrel
A couple times a year I hear about an alcohol beverage that is somehow, against all odds, "good for you." It happened again this week and so I eagerly rushed to the Public COLA Registry to see what was new. Lo and behold, I found the squirrel. A mighty one - or so it...
Louisville’s ‘Wall Street of Whiskey’ in Flames
On Monday afternoon, a piece of Louisville, Kentucky's rich whiskey history caught fire, leaving preservationists, historians and bourbon lovers wondering what will become of the city's Whiskey Row. Three buildings were damaged in the blaze which broke out at 4:30...
Craft Brewing Has a Sexism Problem (Excerpt)
1978 was the worst year for beer diversity in post-Prohibition America, with only 89 breweries operating in the entire country. Most of those breweries sucked, so a nation addled by other drugs might not have realized that things were starting to look up. President...
Pennsylvania: McIlhinney Comments on Veto of Liquor Privatization Bill
HARRISBURG — Senate Law and Justice Committee Chairman Chuck McIlhinney (R-10) issued the following statement today in response to Governor Wolf’s veto of legislation to privatize the sale of liquor and wine in Pennsylvania: “Governor Wolf’s veto of House Bill 466 is...
On-Premise trends improve in latest 4 weeks through mid-June, despite shift of Father’s Day and slowing off-premise trends
On-premise trends improved during the latest 4 weeks ending June 14th, with traffic down 1.6% vs down 2% for the last 12 weeks (and down 2.7% for the prior 4 week period). The improvement is an encouraging sign as the last week of the period was negatively impacted by...
Is PBR still cool? America’s hipster beer is slowing down
Cheap and hardly advertised, PBR's lager gained a cult following of hipsters in recent years. Its parent company, Pabst Brewing, says PBR has been the fastest growing domestic beer over the past decade. But the beer's moment in the sun appears to be fading, experts...
Snoop Dogg promotes rum cousin cachaça to US
As much as Snoop Dogg might not be an obvious choice to champion one of Brazil's most traditional products, the US rapper assumed the role this year when he signed up to market Cuca Fresca, a brand of the sugar cane spirit, cachaça, to the gringos in North America....
Rum’s success stems from certain resilience of spirit
When a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, Thierry Gardère, the owner of the Barbancourt rum distillery in Port-au-Prince, the capital, lost almost half of his ageing stock. Many of his barrels of French Limousin oak cracked and the spirit - popular among...