Liquid Assets: A Beverage Industry Podcast

We catch up with Mark Chaplin (Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits President, Commercial Sales) and Devyn Dugger (Senior Vice President, NY Beer Division) to discuss their recent beer-business-buying binge, focusing on the changes that they are bringing to the beer business and how they are bringing best practices from the beer business into their broader wine and spirits op...

New drinks aplenty and trends always changing. Exploring culture, with the drinks we are raising. Asking a stranger, "Why did you order that thing?" These are a few of my favorite [drink] things.

Friends at a conference with gossip worth sharing. Newsletters, dailies, and podcasts worth airing. Together let's ask what all of these numbers mean. These are a few of my fa...

Sarah Barrett, Managing Editor at Wine & Spirits Daily, and Chris Shepard, Senior Editor at Beer Marketer's Insights, join us to debate the most impactful stories of the year so far.

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For more than a year, alcohol sales in the on-premise (restaurants, bars, stadiums, and hotels) have outperformed sales in the off-premise (grocery, convenience, and liquor stores). On the surface, this trend contradicts many of our explanations for the industry's struggles. If people are broke, why are they spending money in the channel where alcohol costs the most? If peopl...

Around 25% of US spirits sales move through control states, but how do they work? How are they different from open states, and what can suppliers do to improve their performance in these markets? In this episode we speak to leadership at the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA) about how government-run liquor businesses operate and what brands can do to bette...