Category: Wine, Cider, and Mead
News S&N Launches New Cider in UK
Scottish & Newcastle announced that will launching a new cider through its UK unit Scottish Courage. The company said that Strongbow Sirrus, a 5% ABV, triple-filtered packaged cider, will be available in the on- and off-premise accounts where in 275ml and 500ml bottles.
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News Fish Brewing Buys Spire Mountain Cider
The Fish Brewing Company, of Olympia, Washington, has acquired Spire
Mountain Cider from the Washington Wine and Beverage Company in Woodinville,
Washington. Spire Mountain Cider changed hands in a full asset purchase that
will relocate all cider production to the Fish Brewery in Olympia by late
January. The deal for Spire Mountain Cider involved a transfer of Fish
Brewing stock to the Washington Wine and Beverage Company, making W.W.B.C. a
significant shareholder in Fish Brewing Co.
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News Challenge to Arizona Wine-Shipping Laws
The Institute for Justice, based in Washington, DC, has sued the state of Arizona in U.S. District Court, asking that the state’s law prohibiting interstate shipment of wine to consumers be overturned. Arizona consumers can order wine from out of state via mail order, telephone, or the Internet, but the wine has to go through the state’s three-tier retailing system first. The wine must be shipped to a distributor, who then turns it over to a retailer. Only then can the customer take delivery of the product. The Institute for Justice, a non-profit law firm, filed the lawsuit on behalf of a vineyard in Leesburg, Virginia. The Institute contends that the law protects distributors and in-state liquor producers, who are allowed to ship directly to Arizona buyers. A lobbyist for Arizona’s Wholesale Beer and Liquor Association defended the practice, saying that state laws that govern liquor sales provide for tax collection and enforcement of the legal drinking age, and claimed that taxes on wine purchases made by Arizona consumers would be almost impossible to collect if out-of-state wines are allowed to be shipped directly to consumers.
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News AOB Releases New Book on Mead Making
The Association of Brewers’ Brewers Publications division has announced the release of its newest book, The Complete Meadmaker. Authored by master meadmaker and amateur orchardist Ken Schramm of Troy, Mich., the book provides a modern update on home production techniques for the world’s oldest adult beverage.
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