One couldn’t help noting the array of hard seltzer introductions shown last week at the National Beer Wholesalers Association meeting.

Sonic Hard Seltzer takes cues from the fast-food chain’s non-alcoholic limeade fountain of- ferings. Reality TV chef Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Seltzer, with flavors like Berry Inferno and Knicker Twist, touts the drink as ...

This week’s issue touches on a couple of important beverage industry themes that we’re paying a lot of attention to these days. The first is the blurring of product and distribution lines between non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverage categories. Driving this trend is a need by scaled players in both ...

We’ve added a new category to the Beverage Digest Awards. Best Powdered Functional Beverage. In January, I wrote about the emergence of single-serve powdered beverages and one analyst’s view that the category could become...

Three exclusive stories in this edition highlight the complexities of today’s marketplace during a lingering pandemic. In the first story, beverage bottlers, who face unprecedented...

Now that the NCAA allows college athletes to enter paid endorsement deals, I can’t wait to see which marquee names sign on...