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Domestic vodka, like America itself, is diverse, with distinct DNA for each brand. Lately, American-made vodka has lots to celebrate. The quality is there, sales are up and brands are proliferating - sea to...

Keeping up with the changes in American whiskey is a full-time job. Just ask retailers, with customers lining up for limited-time offerings of rare releases, new line extensions and brands, vintage offerings and the...

While craft beer continues to sell well, there are potential signs of trouble ahead. Growth has slowed. After posting years of double-digit sales gains, the category has recently settled into a pattern of single-digit increases....

Craft beer has entered a new phase. No longer a booming new trend, but now firmly established, the category has experienced some growing pains. But there’s still plenty of opportunity and innovation as new...

Coming to Louisville for its third year on June 10-12, 2019, the Beverage Alcohol Retailers Conference is for the first time including the Inaugural Top 100 Off-Premise Retailer awards. The conference will conclude with...

Virginia is for lovers, and wine — and also whiskey. The state boasts a burgeoning craft distilling industry. Virginia shares a similar climate, ideal for barrel aging, with its westward neighbor of Kentucky. Virginia spirits...

For this round of our wine panel, we asked members — retailers and operators from across the country — to sip and grade cabernet sauvignon. Any style from anywhere in the world. As always, these...

The Scotch category has recently struggled to keep pace with boom times enjoyed by other brown spirits. Lack of creativity is one part of the problem. Another is the spirit's stuffy reputation as the...

Southern Glazer's announced that it has donated 3,000 backpacks filled with school supplies to Children’s Home Society of Florida (CHS), Florida’s largest statewide organization devoted to helping children and families. The backpack drive, sponsored by Southern Glazer’s Florida-based VolunCheers...

So-called “malternatives” first appeared in the beer aisles in the 1980s, when changes in the tax code undermined the market for wine coolers and opened an opportunity for malt-based drinks that could qualify as beer...