Category: 2024

Lochlea Debuts Five-Year-Old Offering

UK-based Lowland region Lochlea Distillery [near where famous Scottish poet Robert Burns resided] has unveiled their first age-statement whisky – the limited edition Lochlea 5 Year Old – a product of five casks. Lochlea 5 Year Old is a combination of a pair of first-fill ex-bourbon casks, one first-fill Oloroso sherry cask, one double-matured Oloroso […]

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UK-based Lowland region Lochlea Distillery [near where famous Scottish poet Robert Burns resided] has unveiled their first age-statement whisky – the limited edition Lochlea 5 Year Old – a product of five casks.

Lochlea 5 Year Old is a combination of a pair of first-fill ex-bourbon casks, one first-fill Oloroso sherry cask, one double-matured Oloroso sherry cask and a double-matured Pedro Ximénez sherry cask, bottled at 50% alcohol by volume [100 proof] and is said to contain notes of black pepper, brown sugar, caramel, hazelnuts, lemon zest, orange peel and rose petals.

Lochlea 5 Year Old is being made available beginning on January 25, 2024, for $115 per 700ml bottle.

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Uber Cans Drizly

Three years ago, Uber rideshare service app purchased USA-based alcohol delivery service app Drizly for a whopping $1.1 billion. Uber is now experiencing a hangover and closing Drizly as of March 2024. Uber says that, instead, they will integrate alcohol delivery into their homegrown delivery service app, Uber Eats. Since the purchase, Drizly had operated […]

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Three years ago, Uber rideshare service app purchased USA-based alcohol delivery service app Drizly for a whopping $1.1 billion. Uber is now experiencing a hangover and closing Drizly as of March 2024. Uber says that, instead, they will integrate alcohol delivery into their homegrown delivery service app, Uber Eats.

Since the purchase, Drizly had operated independently under Uber with a separate app – despite being integrated into the Uber Eats app – as they offered local liquor stores the opportunities to provide their own deliveries to Drizly customers in more than 1,400 U.S. cities.

However, a massive cybersecurity breach in 2020 – which reportedly exposed the information of approximately 2.5 million customers – may have assisted in the demise of Drizly. An investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that Drizly’s CEO had been aware of the company’s security issues since 2018 but took no action to fix them. The FTC then ordered, in 2022, Drizly to wipe its systems of any personal data it collected and restrict the types of customer information it was allowed to collect.

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The Lost Distillery Unveils Pair Of Blended Whiskies

UK-based The Lost Distillery Company has released a pair of blended whiskies – Lossit 27 Year Old and Towiemore 25 Year Old – featuring flavor profiles created to mirror former distilleries in the Speyside and Islay regions. [Towiemore was a Speyside distillery active until 1931, while Lossit was an Islay distillery active until 1867]. The […]

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UK-based The Lost Distillery Company has released a pair of blended whiskies – Lossit 27 Year Old and Towiemore 25 Year Old – featuring flavor profiles created to mirror former distilleries in the Speyside and Islay regions. [Towiemore was a Speyside distillery active until 1931, while Lossit was an Islay distillery active until 1867].

The Lost Distillery Company’s Lossit 27 Year Old was bottled at 47.3% alcohol by volume [94.6 proof] and is said to offer notes of chocolate, leather, oak and smoke.

The Lost Distillery Company’s Towiemore 25 Year Old was bottled at 52.1% alcohol by volume [104.2 proof] and is said to offer notes of almond, Madeira cake and sherry.

Only 210 bottles of The Lost Distillery Company’s Lossit 27 Year Old are being made available for $660 per bottle.

Only 330 bottles of The Lost Distillery Company’s Towiemore 25 Year Old are being made available for $520 per bottle.

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Martell Reveals Year Of The Dragon Cognac

Martell has revealed their special cognac for the Chinese Lunar New Year – the Year of the Dragon – which arrives on February 10, 2024. Specifically, Martell is dubbing it L’Or de Jean Martell 1715 Zodiac Edition – Assemblage du Dragon. L’Or de Jean Martell 1715 Zodiac Edition – Assemblage du Dragon has been blended […]

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Martell has revealed their special cognac for the Chinese Lunar New Year – the Year of the Dragon – which arrives on February 10, 2024. Specifically, Martell is dubbing it L’Or de Jean Martell 1715 Zodiac Edition – Assemblage du Dragon.

L’Or de Jean Martell 1715 Zodiac Edition – Assemblage du Dragon has been blended from 1,400 eaux-de-vie – including some from previous Years of the Dragon eaux-de-vie – and is said to offer notes of cinnamon, longan (an edible fruit also known as dragon’s eye), lotus seed, Sichuan pepper and tamarind.

L’Or de Jean Martell 1715 Zodiac Edition – Assemblage du Dragon is held in a Baccarat crystal decanter and features a 19-carat gold neck sealed with a crystal stopper in the shape of a dragon’s head [celebrating the year’s Zodiac animal – dragon].

Only 750 bottles of L’Or de Jean Martell 1715 Zodiac Edition – Assemblage du Dragon are being made available for $10,500 per bottle [and only 10 of those are being made available in the USA].

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Blue Moon Promotes New Dry-Back January Non-Alcoholic Beer

Molson Coors-owned Blue Moon Brewing is promoting their Blue Moon Non-Alcoholic Belgian White — which debuted in December 2023 — for those abstaining from alcohol for the so-called Dry January but intending to reset in February 2024. Beginning on January 12, 2024, for every six pack of Blue Moon Non-Alcoholic Belgian White that consumers purchase […]

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Molson Coors-owned Blue Moon Brewing is promoting their Blue Moon Non-Alcoholic Belgian White — which debuted in December 2023 — for those abstaining from alcohol for the so-called Dry January but intending to reset in February 2024.

Beginning on January 12, 2024, for every six pack of Blue Moon Non-Alcoholic Belgian White that consumers purchase from January 12, 2024 through the end of the month, Molson Coors is providing a $12 rebate that can be used for a six pack of anything in the Blue Moon brand portfolio [20+ beers] next month by submitting a qualifying receipt by February 7, 2024, along with a rebate of up to five dollars for the requisite orange garnish.

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WhistlePig Offers Cannabis-Infused Zero ABV Cocktail Creation

Vermont-based WhistlePig has prepared for the so-called Dry January with a non-alcoholic Old Fashioned ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktail created with non-psychoactive cannabis terpenes. WhistlePig’s Dank & Dry Old Fashioned Cocktail is based on the brand’s Barrel Aged Maple Old Fashioned recipe and is made with WhistlePig’s PiggyBack Devil’s Slide 100% Rye Non-Whiskey and barrel-aged maple syrup […]

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Vermont-based WhistlePig has prepared for the so-called Dry January with a non-alcoholic Old Fashioned ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktail created with non-psychoactive cannabis terpenes.

WhistlePig’s Dank & Dry Old Fashioned Cocktail is based on the brand’s Barrel Aged Maple Old Fashioned recipe and is made with WhistlePig’s PiggyBack Devil’s Slide 100% Rye Non-Whiskey and barrel-aged maple syrup along with Vermont cannabis terpenes that were cultivated in whiskey barrels.

WhistlePig’s Dank & Dry Old Fashioned Cocktail is being made available for $50 per 750ml bottle [with a ‘Hox Box Bundle’ including a pig-shaped cocktail smoker and a bag of cocktail smoking chips going for $65]. Both are available on the official WhistlePig website.

WhistlePig is donating 100% of the proceeds from sales of Dank $ Dry Old Fashioned Cocktail to bartenders through New Orleans-based non-profit Turning Tables.

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No Sleep Beverage Invests In Nine Banded Whiskey

Texas-based Nine Banded Whiskey Distillery has collaborated with former Pernod Ricard executive Nick Papanicolaou’s No Sleep Beverage investment company with a $10 million funding boost from NSB. In addition to producing spirits, Papanicolaou’s NSB investment will help Nine Banded construct their whiskey tasting room at the distillery’s home base of Austin. Nine Banded Whiskey was […]

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Texas-based Nine Banded Whiskey Distillery has collaborated with former Pernod Ricard executive Nick Papanicolaou’s No Sleep Beverage investment company with a $10 million funding boost from NSB.

In addition to producing spirits, Papanicolaou’s NSB investment will help Nine Banded construct their whiskey tasting room at the distillery’s home base of Austin.

Nine Banded Whiskey was founded in 2016 in Austin and the name is a reference to a local ubiquitous animal – the armadillo – and NBW’s products are currently only available in Texas.

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Guy Fieri Travels To Flavortown

Celebrity TV chef Guy Fieri has collaborated with Connecticut-based Two Road Brewing to produce Flavortown Spiker -ready-to-drink flavored malt beverages that are launching with the release of Flavortown Spiked Fruit Punch. Flavortown Spiked Fruit Punch is claimed to be a mix of real cranberry and orange juices along with 6% alcohol in each can, which […]

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Celebrity TV chef Guy Fieri has collaborated with Connecticut-based Two Road Brewing to produce Flavortown Spiker -ready-to-drink flavored malt beverages that are launching with the release of Flavortown Spiked Fruit Punch.

Flavortown Spiked Fruit Punch is claimed to be a mix of real cranberry and orange juices along with 6% alcohol in each can, which are being introduced in six-packs of 12 ounce cans initially, with plans to expand to larger 19.2 ounce cans in early 2024.

Fieri suggests pairing his Flavortown Spiked Fruit Punch with such dishes as jalapeño poppers or andouille-stuffed jalapeños wrapped in bacon and glazed with barbecue sauce.

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Molson Coors Offers Rides For New Year’s Eve Revelers In Seven Cities

2024 is only days away and beer behemoth Molson Coors is providing rides – via a big bus – for New Year’s Eve revelers celebrating the coming of the new year in seven cities. Those seven cities seeing a blue bus in their midst will be Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Phoenix. […]

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2024 is only days away and beer behemoth Molson Coors is providing rides – via a big bus – for New Year’s Eve revelers celebrating the coming of the new year in seven cities.

Those seven cities seeing a blue bus in their midst will be Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Phoenix. For each of those cities, Molson Coors will be collaborating with each city’s public transit systems as part of their Free Rides program which aims to provide fare-free rides on New Year’s Eve and give drinkers in each city a way to pursue responsible transportation and avoid drunk driving.

Molson Coors is encouraging New Year’s Eve revelers in each city to visit that city’s public transit website, review routes and make any potential arrangements before midnight arrives on December 31, 2023.

Molson Coors has offered their “Free Rides” programs in nine cities during 2023, including St. Patrick’s Day, and is expected to continue the program into 2024.

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Bacardi Takes Control Of Teeling

A mere six years after investing in the Dublin-based Irish whiskey-making Teeling Distillery, Bermuda-based Bacardi has taken majority control of the distiller. The percentage of Bacardi’s ownership stake was undisclosed but founders Jack and Stephen Teeling will continue to own a percentage of the business and run day-to-day operations. Bacardi initially invested in The Teeling […]

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A mere six years after investing in the Dublin-based Irish whiskey-making Teeling Distillery, Bermuda-based Bacardi has taken majority control of the distiller.

The percentage of Bacardi’s ownership stake was undisclosed but founders Jack and Stephen Teeling will continue to own a percentage of the business and run day-to-day operations.

Bacardi initially invested in The Teeling Whiskey Company in June 2017 and – beginning in January 2024 – Teeling will be distributed by Bacardi in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK with Sweden to be added in February and Belgium currently scheduled to be added in March.

Teeling remains the only Irish whiskey in Bacardi’s portfolio which includes its signature rum products as well as popular spirits in other categories such as vodka [Grey Goose], gin [Bombay Sapphire], tequila [Patrón] and blended Scotch whisky [Dewar’s] Scotch whisky.

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