Jan 2, 2025 · Spirits 5 Cocktail and Spirits Industry Trends to Watch in 2025. Between greater scrutiny of celebrity spirits and the looming threat of a trade war, these are the trends and issues the industry will be talking about in the year ahead

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Oct 28, 2024 · It was 2018. The EU had just imposed a 25 percent tariff on American whiskey in retaliation for tariffs imposed by the United States on European steel and aluminum imports.. In the tumultuous years that followed, Catoctin Creek Distillery and countless other members of the U.S. beverage alcohol industry would find themselves collateral damage in transpacific and transatlantic industrial trade ...

Dec 9, 2024 · Tyler Wetherall is the senior editor for SevenFifty Daily and the Beverage Media Group publications.Her drinks journalism has appeared in publications including Punch, The Guardian, Condé Nast Traveler, Thrillist, and The Spirits Business, which awarded her the Alan Lodge Young International Drinks Writer of the Year.Tyler is also the author of No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run, and ...

Jan 6, 2025 · Decreased consumption, proliferating climate disasters, and a change in U.S. leadership that promises to upend business as usual are making for tough times in wine. But, as Adam Casto, the winemaker at Napa’s Ehlers Estate, observes, “A sense of destabilization in virtually all categories of a ...

Nov 4, 2024 · Peterson’s experience is emblematic of the tenuousness of DEI work in the drinks world today. In 2020, propelled by the Black Lives Matter movement after the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the industry took stock.

Apr 25, 2024 · “Frankly, additive-free is being thrown around a lot right now and it can be tricky to see who’s actually playing ball and who’s doing smoke and mirrors,” says Ivy Mix, the author of Spirits of Latin America and co-owner of the Brooklyn cocktail bars Leyenda and soon-to-open Whoopsie Daisy.. Tequila connoisseurs seek out additive-free options for a number of reasons; some are trying to ...

Oct 17, 2024 · The map of world whiskey has been steadily expanding.In the 2024 World Whisky Awards, over 40 countries competed—twice as many as a decade ago—with entries from Sweden to South Africa.. Investment has followed. The Diageo-backed drinks business accelerator Distill Ventures took on Australia’s Starward in 2015 and invested $10 million in Denmark’s Stauning Whisky, which launched ...

Nov 11, 2024 · My current position is shared by many doctors, scientists, and public health researchers with decades of expertise in the field. Take the measured words of Dr. Gregory Marcus, MD, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, speaking about moderate alcohol consumption on KQED’s Forum in September: “The current evidence for health and harm is fairly ...

For over 30 years, Passoã has been the leading choice for adding bold passion fruit flavor to cocktails and drinks. Today, it’s keeping up with current consumer trends with its relatively low alcohol…