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.
This year’s top spirits headlines capture an industry in transition: major distribution shifts, sudden closures, shocking lawsuits, the race to win an emerging category, and of course, at least one celebrity closing a deal. Here are the top 10 BevNET spirits stories, as ranked by popularity.
Stateside Brands, the company responsible for popularizing vodka-based iced tea, is now adding vodka to another beverage: the sports drink.
The Clean Alcohol Collective (CAC), co-founded by Meredith Mills-Merritt, founder of ready-to-drink (RTD) brand The Original Southside, and Conor Begley, co-founder of Father’s Brewing, launched this month as a coalition of alcohol brands offering greater ingredient transparency and shared formulation standards.
The next evolution in adult non-alc (ANA) will require brands to push flavor to greater heights, invest in retail strategy, and find new occasions.
Los Angeles-based Ikasu Brewing won the 17th edition of the Brewbound Live Pitch Slam.
Eight finalists pitched their brands in the 2025 Brewbound Live Pitch Slam today.
Former Ilegal mezcal COO Michelle Ivey will join Lake Hour as CEO, joining co-founders Wyatt Russell and Richard Peete in guiding the canned cocktail brand.
Spirits and wine ready-to-drink (RTD) suppliers are likely feeling the holiday cheer as they bucked declines across categories for the two-week period ending November 15, according to analysis of NIQ data from Goldman Sachs Equity Research.
If you’re a ready-to-drink or spirits company taking marketing cues from CPG, you may be doing it wrong.
BevNET spirits editor Ferron Salniker chatted with the creator of St-Germain about how to translate learnings from the bar to RTDs, where to spot opportunities in crowded categories, and how to be a bartender’s RTD brand even when selling off-premise.
The inspiration for Shake Up Cocktails didn’t come from a bar or a boardroom … it struck at a Midwest state fair.
Functional adult non-alc (ANA) spirits brand Aplós has closed a $5 million funding round, the company announced today. The raise follows a breakout year of triple-digit growth across wholesale and retail channels.
On the precipice of its first national chain retail placement, Waste arrives as the world’s first canned cocktail made from upcycled ingredients.
New Mix, an El Jimador Tequila-based cocktail launched in 1997, has been testing retail shelves across U.S. markets this year, with a wider rollout announced today.
