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The State of the Booze Business: What Does the Future Hold?

Booze Business

Non-alcohol beverages growth This shift is strongest among younger generations, with Gen Z (born 1997-2012) drinking over 20% less than other generations did at their age. Overall, 33% of Americans said they had spent $50 or more on a bottle of alcohol in 2022, against just 24% in 2021. Premiumization is most notable in spirits.

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Niche Sports and Games Are Helping Breweries Score Big

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In 2012, Morgan Jappe co-founded the Brewery Running Series , whose first event was a five-kilometer run in Minneapolis that began at Fulton Beer. “It Playing at someone’s house meant someone hosted what always became a “bottle sharing night,” Thomas says. If everyone was drinking beer, why not meet at Castle Church?

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The Mount Rushmore of Craft Breweries, According to 8 Beer Experts

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craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. But through its ups and down, craft beer has proven that it is here to stay, now a part of the culinary and cultural fabric of not just American life, but life all over the world. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):

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The Spice Is Right: Why Brewers Are Betting Big on Micheladas

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In 2007, Miller Brewing (now part of Molson Coors Beverage Company) introduced the bottled “chelada style” Miller Chill, flavored with lime and salt, which remains popular in Australia. Tecate debuted America’s first canned Michelada in 2012, while 2014 saw Modelo roll out Chelada Especial, made with tomatoes, salt, and lime. “We

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The Mount Rushmore of IPAs, According to 8 Beer Experts

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1 craft beer style in America, if not the world. In that time, we’ve seen the beer industry go from malty English IPAs to dank West Coast options — teeth-chatteringly bitter double and then triple and even quadruple IPAs — to softer, fruitier, and hazier New England-style options. Maine Beer Co.

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Rabbit Hole’s Kaveh Zamanian Thinks Wine and Beer Will Inspire Future of American Whiskey

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Zamanian founded Rabbit Hole in 2012, and after seven years of growth and scaling, sold the majority to Pernod Ricard in 2019. My inspiration really has come more in the direction of culinary craft beer, even wine producers. The result is one of Kentucky bourbon’s most recent and now-famous success stories.

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The Absolute Best Canned Cocktails Right Now

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As such, larger-format, ready-to-serve libations were not included in the tasting (though there are several worth checking out, from bottled Martinis to Old Fashioneds ). Slow & Low Rock and Rye Hochstadter’s produces four canned cocktails under the Slow & Low label, including Rock and Rye, America’s first bottled cocktail.

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