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Newsom signs a bill that gives takeout cocktails three more years If you like picking up a well-made drink along with your dinner order, you can relax. California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that keeps cocktails to-go legal in the state until 2029. The measure, AB 2663, arrived just in

For a long time, vodka had a simple reputation. It was the clean, neutral spirit behind the bar, poured into a mixed drink or taken straight and ice-cold. In India, one of the biggest and fastest-changing liquor markets in the world, that reputation is shifting. Drinkers there want more than a neut

From the Top of the Rockies to the Ready-to-Drink Cooler: Breckenridge Distillery's Breck Vodka Seltzer Signals a New Chapter When a distillery sitting nearly two miles above sea level — one that has spent nearly two decades building one of the most decorated bourbon reputations in the country — d

Chip Tate Is Done Playing It Safe: The Balcones Founder Is Bringing Single-Malt Science to Tequila and Mezcal There is a particular kind of restlessness that afflicts the best distillers — a refusal to let mastery of one category become a ceiling. Chip Tate has always lived inside that restlessnes

A New Call Goes Out From New Orleans Every summer, thousands of bartenders, distillers, brand builders, and hospitality veterans converge on New Orleans for one of the most influential gatherings in the spirits business. Now the organization behind that event is asking the industry to help build n

There was a time when ordering a drink meant picking from a short list and living with whatever showed up in the glass. That era is fading fast. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, known throughout the industry simply as DISCUS, has just rolled out a new national campaign built arou

The group of major players guiding spirits policy in the United States just got a new name on its roster, and it's one that's been around a lot longer than the trade association itself. Disaronno International USA has signed on as a director member of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United Sta

Sazerac's £500 Million Bet on Au Vodka Is About Far More Than a Gold Bottle When a Kentucky spirits company with four generations of family ownership and a portfolio anchored by some of the most coveted bourbon barrels on earth decides to spend half a billion pounds on a Welsh vodka brand that lau

September carries the title of National Bourbon Heritage Month, and for a whole lot of guys in this country, that means one thing: bourbon gets the spotlight for thirty straight days. But there's a spirit sitting on the shelf next to the bourbon that deserves a second look this month, and it comes

California lawmakers just gave a nod to something a lot of guys have gotten used to since the pandemic hit: ordering a mixed drink along with dinner and taking it home in the car. The state Legislature passed AB 2663, a bill that keeps cocktails-to-go legal in California all the way through 2029. R