Category: Editor’s Picks
How to Recognize Faults and Qualities in Wine
Knowing what constitutes great wine is a skill one develops through time and experience tasting the product. Though it helps to read a few good tips along the way. With the …
Interview: BlueCart, an App for Better Ordering Between Restaurants and Suppliers
E-commerce has spread fast into the alcohol industry. One of the newer apps is BlueCart, which streamlines product orders between restaurants and suppliers. It is free …
Will California’s Bad Crop Yields Lead to Wine Pricing Pressure?
The 2015 vintage on California’s North Coast (which includes Napa and Sonoma Valleys) is quite beautiful, but extremely tiny. And what was so surprising about the …
6 Historical Events that Shaped the Alcohol Industry
Note: this piece is part of Cheers’ sister publication Beverage Dynamics celebrating 80 years of print. Click here for the full 80th Anniversary Feature. The history of alcohol in …
Here’s How Absolut Plans to Push Premium Vodka in 2016
Vodka is supposed to be dead. Millennials much prefer whiskey to the white spirit. Then why did Pernod Ricard host a holiday party to celebrate Absolut …
Q&A with Ninkasi Brewing’s Co-Founders About Testing the Limits of Beer
Since opening almost a decade ago, The Ninkasi Brewing Company in Eugene, Oregon, has expanded four times. Today, the brewery employs 107 people and features a 90-barrel brewing …
9 Cocktails that Can Spread Some Holiday Cheer
Holiday season is a time for merriment. And what better way to capture that feeling than by serving your customers or guests some seasonally appropriate cocktails? So here …