Super Bowl Sunday sees 15% drink driving spike
Super Bowl Sunday sees 15% drink driving spike Source: The Spirits Business by Melita Kiely 1st February, 2016 American football fans are being urged not to drink and drive next weekend after research revealed drink driving offences are 15% higher on Super Bowl Sunday. Alcohol Monitoring Systems, AMS, studied the drinking behaviour […]
Smugglers keep trying to get alcohol into Saudi Arabia and customs officials keep twe
Smugglers keep trying to get alcohol into Saudi Arabia and customs officials keep tweeting it Source: Washington Post By Adam Taylor January 31 Thanks to the country’s austere interpretation of Islamic law, alcohol is illegal in Saudi Arabia. The punishments can be harsh: Anyone caught in possession of wine, beer or other alcoholic […]
Hoarders. Prohibition Whiskey Edition
Hoarders. Prohibition Whiskey Edition Source: The Chuck Cowdery Blog January 29, 2016 Throughout Prohibition (1920-1933), legal whiskey was available to everyone. All you needed was a prescription from your doctor. Some doctors refused to write them, but many believed (as many do to this day) that drinking whiskey was beneficial to health. Bakers […]
77% support lower drink-driving limit, says alcohol health group
77% support lower drink-driving limit, says alcohol health group Source: Daily Mail By Press Association 29 January 2016 More than three quarters of people polled about drink driving support reducing the limit in England and Wales to the same as Scotland, an alcohol health group has said. The findings were published on […]
Brand Battles: Booze Battles
Brand Battles: Booze Battles Source: Law360 By Bill Donahue January 29, 2016 In Law360’s latest roundup of new actions at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, intellectual property powerhouse Finnegan faces a new challenge in its bid to register the name of its IP newsletter, Rihanna moves to protect her name, and Anheuser-Busch […]
Washington, DC: These Are the Most Popular Kinds of Alcohol DC Orders by Phone
Washington, DC: These Are the Most Popular Kinds of Alcohol DC Orders by Phone Washingtonian By Dan Henebery January 28, 2016 As a historic snowstorm pummeled the East Coast last week, DC residents rushed to stockpile the necessities: milk, bread, rock salt, and a lot of booze. Last-minute liquor store runs are nothing new, but […]
United Kingdom: 77% support lower drink-driving limit, says alcohol health group
Daily Mail By Press Association January 28, 2016 More than three quarters of people polled about drink driving support reducing the limit in England and Wales to the same as Scotland, an alcohol health group has said. The findings were published on the day the House of Lords will debate a Private Members’ Bill on […]
Kroger Plans To Upend How it Organizes Booze in Stores
Kroger Plans To Upend How it Organizes Booze in Stores NASDAQ By Tripp Mickle and Ilan Brat January 29, 2016 Kroger Co. has started a booze-fueled brawl with the alcohol industry with a plan to change how the country’s largest supermarket chain organizes beer, wine, and liquor on its store shelves. The proposal would do […]
Fears powdered alcohol could be new craze after being seized in UK jails
Fears powdered alcohol could be new craze after being seized in UK jails Exclusive: Substance can be snorted, baked into cakes or mixed with water to make booze The Sun By Craig Woodhouse, Chief Political Correspondent January 28, 2016 POWDERED alcohol has been found in British prisons for the first time ever, The Sun […]
Right Distribution Is Key To Successful Beer Remedies
Right Distribution Is Key To Successful Beer Remedies Law360 By Andre P. Barlow January 27, 2016 In an indirect way, today’s craft beer renaissance in the United States was made possible by prohibition. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, normally referred to as prohibition, was in part a reaction to the system of “tied houses” […]