Friday (6/4) is International Beer Day, and brewers should be celebrating.  Beer is currently the most expensive item on the BBQ menu – making up 27% of the total cost – and consumers have endured 14 consecutive years of price hikes, which ought to make brewers feel better despite the fact

Beer has outpriced wine and spirits for more than a decade, according to Tom Bailey, senior consumer foods analyst at Rabobank. And that's contributed to beer losing significant market share over that period, he says. At the same time, beer is facing stiffer competition from ready-to-drink cocktails and hard seltzers,

A sneak attack.  Maybe not rivaling Pearl Harbor, but a sneak attack that caught distillers unaware and they had the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. let their unhappiness be known.   What's at issue is the 4% across the board price increase on more than 3,500  of the