Category: Wine, Cider, and Mead
News Kendall-Jackson Becomes First NBA Wine Partner
Winemaker Kendall-Jackson has reached a deal with the National Basketball Association to become the league’s first official wine partner. It is another signal that the wine industry is making moves to capture consumers who are moving away from drinking beer.
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News American Cider Association Announces Recipients of Excellence Awards
The American Cider Association (ACA) has announced the recipients of their annual Cider Excellence Awards at CiderCon 2024 in Portland, honoring individuals, businesses, and organizations from around the country for their achievements in, and contributions to, the U.S. hard cider industry.
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News Beer is Clear Favorite Over Wine and Spirits in the Non-Alcohol Category
According to a recent poll, 58% of Americans participating in Dry January chose a low-alcohol or no-alcohol beer to help them achieve their goals. 55% of the respondents say that the quality of non-alcoholic beer has improved over the past few years.
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Sponsored Add Wine Making Equipment to Your Beer Brewing Business – A Case Study: Odell Brewing Adds Wine Making Equipment to their Brewery
Odell Brewing is now the 23rd largest independent craft brewery in the country, distributing beer to 19 states. The company is 100% employee-owned. Odell has its roots in innovation and creativity that meets balance, consistency, and quality in each brew. This balance is not just a philosophy for the beers Odell Brewing crafts. It’s a foundation for the company as a whole. Odell Brewing recently announced the introduction of a winery in 2020 to its portfolio. Learn why they decided to diversify the brewery and find out about some of their challenges and opportunities in the process of adding wine making equipment to their beer brewing business.
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News Ackley Brands Winery Buys Mac & Jack’s
There are a lot of craft brewery owners who are ready to exit the industry and are quietly looking for a buyer. But who is buying craft breweries in this new era of slow growth? The wine industry may be one avenue to look at. Ackley Brands, a family-based, Pacific Northwest company that owns several Northwest wineries announced that it has acquired Mac & Jack’s Brewing of Redmond, Washington.
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News Quality Beverage in MA Purchased by Wine & Spirits Wholesaler Martignetti
Martignetti Companies, the sixth largest distributor of wine and spirits in the United States has announced that they will acquire Quality Beverage in Massachusetts. The deal is another indication that wine and spirit wholesalers are blending into the beer distribution side as the middle-tier continues to consolidate.
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News California Bill Would Allow Spirit-based RTD’s to be Sold Alongside Beer and Wine
A bill in California supported by the Distilled Spirits Council (DISCUSS) would allow retailers with a beer and wine license to also sell spirit-based RTD’s, a move which would further blur the line that has traditionally existed between spirits and beer and wine.
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Michelle McGrath on Hard Cider – What’s New and Happening in the Category
Among the major alcohol categories hard cider can often be overlooked. This is a mistake as the beverage, an agricultural achievement, has deep roots in America and continues to surprise and delight regular consumers. Michelle McGrath the executive director of the American Cider Association spoke with Beer Edge editor John Holl about all that is new and happening with cider.
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Mitch Ermatinger on Natural Wine – Is It a Fit For Your Brewery?
To hear wine folks tell it, craft beer and natural wine are kindred spirits. Both are quirky offshoots of the traditional beverage order, expand the flavor ranges beyond the ordinary, and remain a little difficult to define. In pushing beverage alcohol to new frontiers and places, there is an interplay between craft beer and natural wine, especially as beer increasingly mimics the flavors, aromas, and aesthetic of wine through barrel and wood aging, fruit and mixed culture fermentation, and other techniques.
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News Chris Jackson of Seismic Brewing to Purchase Golden State Cider
Chris Jackson, founder and president of Seismic Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, CA has announced that he and his wife Ariel will purchase Golden State Cider of Healdsburg. The cidery was founded 10 years ago and uses locally grown apples for its production.
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News Brewers Not the Only Ones Diversifying – Wine Makers Getting Into Cider and Beer
It’s well-known that many brewers these days are diversifying into a variety of other beverage products, chasing the ever-changing consumer tastes. But its not just brewers who are looking across the beverage spectrum – wineries are diversifying as well.
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News California Craft Brewers Association Files Injunction for Same Treatment as Wineries in Reopening Process
The California Craft Brewers Association announced today the filing of a Motion for Preliminary Injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California as the industry continues to fight for equal protection and equitable reopening guidelines from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
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News Wineries Turning to Distilling for Diversification
Even before the pandemic, alcohol beverage manufacturers of all sizes have learned that a diversified business model provides some amount of additional security. And like their brewer counterparts, many winemaking operations are turning to distilling spirits.
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News CiderCon Virtual Conference This Week
CiderCon will kick off a virtual rendition of its annual conference this Wednesday. The conference will take place online February 3-5, with a variety of education seminars and discussions, a digital trade show and even a digital “after hours” party.
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News US Imports of Wine and Whisky Show Sharp Drop Due to Tariff War
Last month the World Trade Organization authorized the EU to impose $4 billion in tariffs on US imports in the ongoing dispute. The 16-year feud, which centers around subsidies given to Boeing and Airbus, is now the WTO’s longest-running corporate dispute.
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News Odell Brewing Expands into Wine with Opening of OBC Wine Project’s Taproom
Posted by Tom McCormick
Odell Brewing Co. is diversifying into wine with the opening yesterday of The OBC Wine Project’s Taproom, located adjacent to the Fort Collins brewery.
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