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USA | Donald Trump said on 1 May he will remove all tariffs and restrictions on whisky imports in honour of King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit. The UK government confirmed this applies to all whisky tariffs, including Irish whiskey.
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USA | Stone Brewing is changing hands again. Duvel Moortgat USA and Firestone Walker will acquire the Stone brand (“Arrogant Bastard”) from Sapporo for an undisclosed sum, media reported on 21 April.
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USA | Craft beer production dropped again in 2025, down 5.1 percent to 21.9 million barrels beer in 2025, the Brewers Association (BA) reported on 15 April. Even so, craft slightly increased its share of the total beer market to 13.3 percent, from 13.2 percent in 2024. The beer category overall declined 5.7 percent by volume.
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USA | Boston Beer may have to pay Ardagh Metal Packaging some USD 175.5 million in damages, after an Illinois jury issued a verdict in favour of the packaging supplier. In its lawsuit against Boston Beer in 2022, Ardagh alleged that Boston Beer fell short in contractual minimum purchases of aluminium cans from 2021 to 2025.
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USA | What a great way to honour a person. The Michael James Jackson Foundation, founded by Garret Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery in honour of the late British beer writer, said that in just five years since its inception, it has assisted 71 individuals in entering the brewing and distilling industries. The non-profit foundation is dedicated to providing education scholarships to people of colour in the United States.
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Canada | And about time too. On 1 April (no joke) the federal government announced an additional two-year extension of the 2 percent cap on the annual alcohol excise duty inflation adjustment, and of the 50 percent reduction on excise duty rates for the first 15,000 hl of beer brewed in Canada, effective 1 April 2026.
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USA | Shares of Constellation Brands were slightly down on 8 April, after the beer, wine and drinks producer said it pulled a longer-term forecast, citing an “evolving socio-economic backdrop and limited near-term visibility”.
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USA | US spirits exports were down 3.8 percent in value to USD 2.37 billion in 2025, according to the 2025 American Spirits Exports Report, released on 31 March by the Distilled Spirits Council (DISCUS). Overall, exports were weighed down by declines in two major markets, Canada and the EU, due to trade tensions and retaliatory actions. Indeed, excluding Canada, US spirits exports were actually up 2.5 percent in 2025.
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USA | One year after Canadian provinces began removing US wines from store shelves in retaliation for Mr Trump’s tariffs, new data underline how the bans and “Buy Canadian” campaigns triggered a collapse in US wine exports. Full-year 2025 trade data from the Wine Institute shows that exports to Canada fell 78 percent year-on-year, driving a USD 357 million decline in value.
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USA | Craft brewer Firestone Walker has acquired the US rights to Trumer pils from the Texas firm Gambrinus, the brewer of Shiner Bock. It plans to move production from the Trumer brewery in Berkeley, San Francisco, to its own Paso Robles brewery in California and start serving the award-winning German-style pilsner as early as this summer. The deal, announced on 27 March, will add roughly 28,000 barrels of Trumer to Firestone Walker's output, pushing its annual sales to over 500,000 barrels beer, observers said.
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