Wine & beer News
Happy Hours – Starbucks Expands Wine & Beer Sales
Starbucks Corp., the world’s biggest coffee-shop chain, which proved the world that there’s nothing as paying too much for a cup of coffee, is planning to experiment with wine and beer, the two elixirs that Americans love. Food and Beverage magazines believe that Starbucks is looking to differentiate itself from competitors, by entering into an alcoholic beverage segment. Well, it seems that happy hours are back again for California and Atlanta.
Heineken Beer to Use Dos Equis to Boost U.S Sales
Heineken’s flagship beer has lost U.S. market share to the likes of Belgium’s Stella Artois over the last five years, and is using Dos Equis, which Heineken acquired in 2010, as way to boost that market share once more. Sales of Dos Equis beer rose 17 percent for the quarter ending in October 2011, compared with Heineken’s 1-percent sales decline and industry wide declines of about 2 percent.
Holiday Beers: 2011 Edition
With the holiday season beginning in less than a week, many breweries are coming up with their 2011 holiday beers for consumers to pair with Thanksgiving turkeys and Christmas hams. Fortunately, there’s no eggnog beer or cranberry beer in the mix. Perhaps those will be some of the holiday beers of 2012? Anyway, here are what some breweries around the world are offering as Christmas beers this holiday season.
Richard Hennessy. The Cognac for Connoisseurs.
Exclusive, luxurious and very much desired, Richard Hennessy is the finest Cognac under the Hennessy brand. Originally known as Jas Hennessy & Co., the Hennessy brand was founded by Irishman Richard Hennessy in 1765 in France. A leading Irish Cognac house, Hennessy has established its superiority where the manufacture of Cognac is concerned, and figures [...]
Judgment Day Chardonnay du Monde®: 2011’s Best Chardonnays declared
Wine connoisseurs world-over wait for this: a list of the best wines of the year, and given this specific event, a ranking of the world’s best chardonnays for the year. The Chardonnay du Monde® presents itself as the most widely recognized platform for getting your wine judged as one of the world’s best. 2011’s participant [...]
Buy a Slab of Beer – Get Stakes in the Brewery for free
Typical of the down-under love you say ? Two well-known facts: Aussies LOVE their beer. And they love everything Australian. So drink to this: A new Aussie beer company, Broo, owned by Kent Grogan, has given away shares with every slab of the beer purchased in order to keep it 100% Australian owned. According to [...]
“Bring it on!” scream wine-lovers. Bumper profit-threatening harvest in New Zealand
Not everyone’s rejoicing about the possibility of wine cellars overflowing. Wine-growers in New Zealand, reported the country’s industry body, are worried that the 300,000 metric tons of grapes this year – 13 percent higher than targeted – will harm profits. A High Beyond Expectations The expected harvest for this year being around than 265,000 tons, [...]
The High with a Soul: Swedish Vodka ‘Karlsson’s Gold’
What do you think will be the fate of Karlsson’s, a start-up Swedish vodka brand, when its difference and essence is based in ‘going against the grain’, so to speak, of vodka’s obsession with purity ? Some global beliefs that have become pre-requisites while judging any vodka as being ‘good vodka’ are that the drink [...]
Bringing Home the Brew. SABMiller panting for Fosters
Amid fresh speculation of being in line of fire for a takeover bid, Foster’s shares surged 4% yesterday with London beverage giant and world’s second biggest beer company, SABMiller, having overcome key obstacles for a potential takeover bid for the local Australian brewing giant. It is believed that SABMiller was previously prevented from putting in [...]
