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Nonalcoholic spirits led liquor category growth on Drizly, the company said.  Top-selling brands include Seedlip, St. Agrestis, Ritual, Lyre’s, and Ghia. Within the beer category, an emerging hard alternative, hard soda, saw high year-over-year gains. The top-seller last month was Not Your Father’s Root Beer followed by Crabbie’

Some 3.7 million barrels of beer were imported in May, up 5.2% from May 2022.   Mexican imported beer "was nearly the sole driver of growth for the imported beer segment this month, up approximately 350K barrels (+11.9%) compared to May of last year," the Beer

Beer Institute said it estimated domestic tax-paid shipments for 13.3 million barrels, a 7.7% drop from a year earlier.  Year-to-date estimates are down 4.4% compared to the same months in 2022.

Molson Coors Beverage Co. says it is seeing great success with flavors.   Buoyed by the introduction of Simply Spiked Peach in April, the brand family has booked around $4.5 million in sales in for the four weeks that ended May 28, according to Circana, a combination of IRI and

We warned you that strong inflation means sales declines, even for bev/al.  The latest SipSource report from WSWA proves me correct.  In the first quarter, sales of spirits were down 5.1% and sales of wine were down 7.4% compared to a year earlier. On-premise depletions share compared

Total U.S. On Premise sales have dropped 3% below the same week in 2022, according to CGA by NIQ's U.S. Impact Report, even those traffic is up 1%.  The problem is check value remains negative. Daily trends over the latest couple of weeks are largely steady,

The cuts may affect such well-known labels as Squealing Pig, Wolf Blass, Lindermans, Pepperjack, Wynns, Seppelt and 19 Crimes. Tim Ford, CEO, Treasury Wine Estates CEO, said the cuts are a result of a change in consumer spending in both Australian and overseas markets.   Last month, Wine Australia's

Hard lemonade experienced the highest year-over-year sales increase last month within the beer category, Drizly said. It’s showing strong growth against other hard alternatives as well; in April 2023, hard lemonade doubled its share within the specialty beer/alternatives subcategory year-over-year, moving from 2% to 4%. The top-selling SKU

That's according to DO Cava, which called 2022 a year of recovery for the region after the economic difficulties of 2021. Foreign sales accounted for 69% of DO's total sales.  Germany remained the top consumer, followed by the US, Belgium and the UK.

The numbers from Community Benchmark aren't pretty. In the first quarter of this year, data from 523 wineries in California and Oregon show: * Overall YTD DTC sales are down -7.9% vs. 2022. (+7.7% vs 2021) * Visitors YTD are down -21.3% vs. 2021 (+31.6% vs.