Ferron Salniker is the Spirits Editor, guiding our coverage of the spirits and RTD cocktail space. She reports for BevNET.com and Brewbound.com on everything from new subcategories in established liquor types to the growth of the craft spirits business.
The U.S. spirits market continued to face headwinds in 2025, with revenues declining for a second consecutive year, the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. (DISCUS) reported Thursday in its annual economic briefing.
The court-appointed receiver for Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey says the embattled whiskey company is insolvent – with a 60-day countdown on its survival if there’s no intervention.
The best New York bars for non-all (NA) cocktails don’t heavily rely on NA spirits, according to the Inaugural NYC’s Best Bars for NA 2025 Awards.
With Constellation Brands and Live Nation now in its corner, Hiyo is focused on defining the positioning of its relaxing “social tonics.”
Future Proof Brands, the Austin-based parent company of BeatBox Beverages, plans to lay off 158 employees following Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) majority share acquisition of the party punch maker.
Adult non-alc (ANA) cocktails are gaining momentum in luxury hotels, with one major chain reporting a 32% sales increase over the past three years. But functional ingredients and education still create challenges.
New data suggests that direct alcohol replacements (such as NA beer) and “alcohol adjacent drinks,” including hemp beverages or adaptogenic functional drinks, are growing for different reasons – and are not necessarily competing.
After carving out early momentum in New Jersey, food and beverage serial entrepreneur Jason Cohen is taking his vodka-based ready-to-drink beverage, Spiked Ade, to more markets.
Stoli Group USA, the owner of Stoli vodka, will move into the liquidation phase after initially filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2024.
Import beer’s unstable 2025 came to a positive end for some top brands this December, according to the latest report from market research firm NIQ.
After Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) shed suppliers at an alarming rate last year – resulting in the closure of its California operations – the distributor is being hit with another major loss as Jose Cuervo’s parent company makes its national exit.
Suntory Global spirits has appointed Davin Nugent, a former Anheuser-Busch InBev and Mark Anthony Brands executive, as president of global ready-to-drink (RTD).
A “leading global beverage company” has made a $14 million strategic investment in InvestBev Capital’s flagship Fund V, the private equity firm announced today.
From class-action suits over Fireball to disputes over jalapeño-flavored Tequila, this year’s bev-alc legal drama was, in a word, spicy.
