WI: Craft Breweries And Tavern League At Odds Over Who Can Hold A Liquor License

WI: Craft Breweries And Tavern League At Odds Over Who Can Hold A Liquor License Wisconsin Laws Make It Difficult To Open A Brewery With An Adjacent Tap Room   Wisconsin Public Radio By Galen Druke November 18, 2015 The growth of Wisconsin’s craft breweries has been lagging the rest of the nation. According to […]

New Zealand: Light beer sales up 60 per cent on tougher drink driving laws

New Zealand: Light beer sales up 60 per cent on tougher drink driving laws   Stuff.co.nz By John Anthony November 19, 2015 Healthier lifestyles and new drink driving laws are being credited for soaring light beer sales.   DB Breweries says supermarket sales of lower alcohol beer have increased by more than 60 per cent […]

Phone Apps That Home Deliver Alcohol Pose New Worry For Parents

Phone Apps That Home Deliver Alcohol Pose New Worry For Parents   ABC 7 NY By Michelle Charlesworth November 18, 2015 NEW YORK (WABC) — There is growing concern about a shockingly easy way teenagers are ordering alcohol deliveries right to their front door without parents ever knowing.   A mother in Manhattan tipped Eyewitness […]

Eat your drink! FEMAIL visits the world’s first alcoholic sweet shop in London

Eat your drink! FEMAIL visits the world’s first alcoholic sweet shop in London (where five of the jellies are as potent as just one glass of wine)   Daily Mail By Suzanne Baum For Mailonline November 19, 2015 Two friends have opened a grown-up sweet shop in London’s Carnaby street selling cocktail-infused candy floss, alcoholic […]

Washington, DC: Ads for alcohol coming to Metro

Washington, DC: Ads for alcohol coming to Metro   WTOP By Max Smith November 20, 2015 WASHINGTON — Next to ads for doctors, townhomes or food, Metro rail and bus riders will soon see ads for alcohol across the system.   The Metro Board voted 7-1 on Thursday to allow the ads, with only Board […]

Liver deaths ‘likely to increase’ after relaxation of alcohol tax policies

Liver deaths ‘likely to increase’ after relaxation of alcohol tax policies   The Guardian By Sarah Boseley, Health editor November 19, 2015 Deaths from liver disease in UK quadrupled between 1980 and 2013 as alcohol became cheaper due to policy encouraged by lobbying from drinks industry, report says   Deaths from liver disease are likely […]

Women and alcohol: Montreal panel sounds alarm

Women and alcohol: Montreal panel sounds alarm   Montreal Gazette By Charlie Fidelman, Montreal Gazette November 19, 2015 Pinky Vodka. Tequila Rose. Snow Queen Vodka. Skinnygirl cocktails.   Is gender-targeted marketing driving women and girls to drink?   Data on alcohol sales suggest it does, author Ann Dowsett Johnston said Wednesday in Montreal at a […]

Parents Warned About Soda-Flavored Alcoholic Drinks

Parents Warned About Soda-Flavored Alcoholic Drinks   CBS Philly By Stephanie Stahl November 19, 2015 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A growing trend in alcoholic beverages: “hard” or “spiked” soda. It’s a drink that tastes a lot like a plain old soft drink flavor. The difference is it has booze.   When Sarah Sigro picks up drinks […]

Maryland: Leggett Strongly Opposes Efforts to End County’s Liquor Monopoly

Maryland: Leggett Strongly Opposes Efforts to End County’s Liquor Monopoly    The Montgomery County executive urged state representatives Wednesday not to pursue legislation that could doom the Department of Liquor Control   Source: Bethesda Magazine By Andrew Metcalf 2015.11.19   Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett made his first public appearance in more than two weeks […]

Massachusetts: Gov. Charlie Baker bellies up to liquor license reform

Massachusetts: Gov. Charlie Baker bellies up to liquor license reform   Source: Boston Herald Matt Stout November 19, 2015   The Baker administration is looking to reform the state’s liquor license laws to keep millennials from abandoning the Bay State in search of better night life.   It’s part of a yet-to-be-completed proposal tucked into […]