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Good Morning and Happy Monday, September 14, 2026. Trump Says He'll End Tariffs on Irish Whiskey President Trump said he would remove a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey, a duty that currently fall under those imposed on all European Union wine and spirits exports to the U.S.

Good Morning, and Happy Friday, September 11, 2026 Southern Glazer's to Pay $12.5 Million to Resolve Bribery Case Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits agreed to pay $12.5 million as part of a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) with the U.S. Justice Department for bribing employees

Good Morning and Happy Thursday, September 10, 2026. Molson Coors Value Portfolio: 5th Largest Beer Company in America Taken all by itself, Molson Coors Beverage Co.'s value portfolio – Miller High Life, Keystone and Keystone Light – would be the 5th largest beer company in America CEO Rahul Goyal told

Good Morning and Happy Friday, September 4, 2026 U.S. Beer Production Dips Another 2.8% Beer Institute estimates that the volume of beer produced in the U.S. in July that was subject to excise tax was 12 million barrels, down 2.8% from a year earlier. The year-

Good Morning and Happy Thursday. It's September 3, 2026. A Note from Joel: Tired of the gloom and doom about the alcohol beverage industry? Be sure to read "What I'm reading" (linked below) sometime today. It tackles that question and a number of others

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday, September 2, 2026 In the RNDC Wind Down, Who Loses Just to prove how nerdy we can get, we spent a few hours reading the documents in the Republic National Distributing Co. Chapter 11 bankruptcy. We began because Chapter 11 usually means the debtor is