The US Congress has passed the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2017 (CBMTRA), a bill that will cut the federal excise tax on beer, spirits, and wine producers effective on Jan. 1, 2018.
Asahi Group Holdings has announced it will sell its stake in Tsingtao Brewery Company Limited to Fosun Group and Tsingtao Brewery Group Company Limited in two separate transactions.
From lightweight bottle designs to the growing adoption of single-use beverage sachets, brands are minimizing materials for packaging that offers greater cost and sustainability.
Today, 83% of Americans live within 10 miles of a local brewery. The Brewers Association, the not-for-profit trade association for US craft beer, looks back on the highlights of 2017 for the craft beer industry.
Alcohol sales grew by nearly £172m ($230m) in the UK over the past 12 weeks compared to the same period last year: but Kantar Worldpanel highlights non-alcoholic beer as the ‘new kid on the block’ to watch.
Crown’s successful partnership with Island Records to produce a 'Shazamable' can for its Session IPA craft beer has led to a second design for its Jamaica Porter beer.
The High End, Anheuser-Busch’s (A-B) US craft beer and imports division, has launched an initiative called “Elevate” to address recent consecutive years of soft category growth by attracting new consumers to the category.
Australian consumer advocacy group CHOICE is campaigning for mandatory kilojoule (calorie) labelling on alcoholic beverages, in order to give consumers more information about what they drink.
Molson Coors is bringing Snow, the world’s top selling beer, to the UK and Ireland this month; thanks to a partnership agreement with China Resources Snow Beer.
Anheuser-Busch has placed an order for 40 Tesla self-driving trucks, saying the technology will help it reduce its environmental impact and increase efficiency. It represents one of Tesla’s largest reported pre-orders.
AB InBev has opened its newest brewery in China, aimed at tapping into the booming growth of the country’s growing middle class - accounting for 76% of the total urban population by 2022 - and their premium beer preferences.
Patrice Bersac, president of two wine associations SyVIF (Île de France) and SyVINO (North-West) in France hit the headlines last week when he challenged the Syndicat Général des Vignerons de la Champagne (SGV) to approve the planting of new vines in...
A study by researchers from the University of Connecticut and Georgia State University have found that counties located in legalized medical marijuana states reported a 15% decrease in monthly alcohol sales between 2006 and 2015.
The new wave of beer drinkers are ‘keen to take beer beyond its conventional circumstances and timings’ – and Foresight Factory has analysed over 98 million social media beer posts to pick out the emerging trends in beer.
Heineken has laid the foundation stone of its first brewery in Mozambique, identifying 'promising long-term economic perspectives' in the African country.
The European Commission has accused AB InBev of abusing its dominant position in Belgium's beer market, by hindering cheaper imports of its Jupiler and Leffe beers from the Netherlands and France into Belgium.
Patrice Bersac, president of two wine associations SyVIF (Île de France) and SyVINO (North-West), has got a fight on his hands as he challenges the Syndicat Général des Vignerons de la Champagne (SGV) to approve the planting of new vines in the region.
AB InBev has acquired Pirate Life, with a $10m ($7.6m USD) investment in a new South Australian brewery kick-starting growth plans for the Adelaide brewer.
Carlsberg Sverige’s brewery in Falkenberg, Sweden, is now 100% powered by biogas and green electricity, eliminating the brewery’s carbon emissions from thermal energy and electricity.
Scientists have identified genes expressed in grapevine roots that limit the amount of sodium that reach berries – a discovery that could ‘significantly accelerate’ the breeding of more robust salt-tolerant grapevines.
Cans are now used for a quarter of craft beers sold in the UK, with canned craft beer sales increasing 327% from January to August 2017, according to Nielsen.
As people aim to reduce their alcohol consumption, almost half of UK consumers are planning to buy more soft drinks this Christmas, according to Britvic, which is advising operators to prepare for a boom in soft drinks.
The biggest opportunities for the alcohol industry lie in successfully targeting the consumer journey and purchase occasions through data, according to Pernod Ricard VP of consumer insights & planning.
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma-Heineken (CCM/Heineken) of Mexico has been able to source all of its malted barley from Montana [US] tax-free, but that relationship could change with the EU and Mexico currently...
The Wine Institute has reported that the majority of California’s 2017 winegrape harvest was not negatively impacted by the wildfires that burned through more than 245,000 acres of the state’s wine regions last month.
A multi-million dollar investment has been made into a research project for measuring and sensing flavors and aromas in beer, with Carlsberg and Microsoft among the team behind the project.
Australia’s small winemakers see increased opportunities in wine tourism, and are expanding and diversifying their businesses with activities around the cellar door.
The Brewers Association (BA), through an agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), will fund a public hop breeding program to develop and release disease-resistant aroma hop cultivars for the...
Craft spirits sales are growing rapidly by volume and value in the US with industry investments on pace to double by the end of 2017, according to The Craft Spirits Data Project.
Geosaf has introduced the Vipoll Visatron VKR0E 32-32-4K/4D to the North American beverage market, an “all-in-one” machine capable of rinsing, filling, and capping anywhere from 4,000 to 20,000 cans or bottles (glass or PET) per hour, says the company.
By the end of 2017, global wine production is projected to register an 8.2% drop to 246.7 mhl compared to 2016, with the largest declines seen in the EU which recorded a 14% drop, says the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV).
The allure of emerging markets has attracted brewers to new regions of the world, with rising global beer consumption fueling further M&A activity in the category, said Rabobank.
China Foods will sell all its wine and non-beverage business to its parent Cofco for HKD5.1bn (US$649m) after years of poor performance and gloomy forecasts for future business.
Tech has infiltrated the homebrewing space with digital tabletop brewing devices poised to be the next frontier of the beer industry as consumers look for a more personalized beer drinking experience, says Euromonitor senior alcoholic drinks analyst Spiros...
Adelphi Ardnamurchan has signed a three-year deal with Advanced Research Cryptography (Arc-net) to use its blockchain platform on its limited edition bottles and other products, to protect it from fraud.
