just-drinks bloggers
Olly Wehring
Super Bowl Sunday - A Taster from Anheuser-Busch
3 February 2012 16:11
Ahead of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday (Go Giants!), brace yourself for the usual advertising hooplah between plays.
Chris Mercer
Truman's moving back to London
27 January 2012 17:11
It's become pretty common to dislocate beers from their geographic homeland in the present era of brewing industry consolidation, which is why the Truman's story caught my eye this week.
Michelle Russell
Coca-Cola, Nestle announce the inevitable
9 January 2012 13:00
The Coca-Cola Co and Nestle's announcement on Friday (6 January) that they are to scale back their global joint-venture, Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW), may have come as little surprise to many.
Chris Brook-Carter
Wine's slow, steady sparkle
21 October 2011 13:25
I am just putting together the final touches to my presentation on non-Champagne sparkling wine for next week's International Sparkling Wine Symposium.
Latest just-drinks blogs
Super Bowl Sunday - A Taster from Anheuser-Busch
By: Olly Wehring - 3 Feb 2012 16:11
Ahead of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday (Go Giants!), brace yourself for the usual advertising hooplah between plays.
Carbendazim - A Pictorial Guide
By: Olly Wehring - 31 Jan 2012 10:01
Carbendazim - A Pictorial Guide
William Grant & Sons - Is 'quirky' a dirty word?
By: Olly Wehring - 30 Jan 2012 19:03
How would you feel if someone described your portfolio as being 'quirky'?
Truman's moving back to London
By: Chris Mercer - 27 Jan 2012 17:11
It's become pretty common to dislocate beers from their geographic homeland in the present era of brewing industry consolidation, which is why the Truman's story caught my eye this week.
Burger... hic... Kebab ... hic ... Hot DoHOWMUCH?!
By: Olly Wehring - 25 Jan 2012 11:43
We've all done it. The morning after, as the haze starts to slowly ascend, you check the pockets of last night's trousers to see if you've got any cash left. Among the coppers, you find a receipt from a fast-food joint, the time and date confirm that it wasn't that you slept with a cat in your mouth; that fur lining of your mouth comes from the dirty burger you wolfed down around midnight on the bus.
They shall drink beer, says FIFA
By: Chris Mercer - 19 Jan 2012 17:15
Just imagine a football World Cup without beer? Go on, imagine it. You can't, can you? Well, neither can FIFA.
Suck & Blow - the worst idea for an alcoholic drink of all time?
By: Chris Mercer - 19 Jan 2012 15:27
The UK's Portman Group has clattered US-based SAB Enterprises over its Suck & Blow alcoholic jelly tubes.
Coors Light unseats King Bud
By: Chris Mercer - 11 Jan 2012 18:23
Coors Light has achieved its expected coup in the US by knocking Budweiser off its perch as the second biggest selling beer in the country.
Coca-Cola, Nestle announce the inevitable
By: Michelle Russell - 9 Jan 2012 13:00
The Coca-Cola Co and Nestle's announcement on Friday (6 January) that they are to scale back their global joint-venture, Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW), may have come as little surprise to many.
Australia's ex-PM sinks a beer "for the country"
By: Chris Mercer - 6 Jan 2012 12:16
Australia's ex-prime minister, Bob Hawke, shows how it's done.
just-drinks is Closed for the Holidays
By: Olly Wehring - 23 Dec 2011 14:15
To advise, we are closed from tomorrow (24 December) for the festive season. We shall return on Tuesday 3 January.
UK Government kills ad spend on alcohol
By: Chris Mercer - 7 Dec 2011 15:28
The UK Government's Department of Health ceased all funding for advertising on responsible drinking in its last fiscal year, new figures show.
When brand ambassadors go wrong
By: Olly Wehring - 6 Dec 2011 12:30
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will have heard that I met someone off the telly last week.
Wine duty forecast: Is this a joke?
By: Chris Mercer - 30 Nov 2011 18:09
The UK Government thinks that, by 2017, its duty tax receipts on wine will have risen by 58% in value.
Stevia gives visitors to Fi Europe plenty to chew over
By: Dean Best - 30 Nov 2011 09:52
Stevia was one of the key topics that appeared to be at the forefront of exhibitors' minds as just-drinks' sister site just-food toured this year's Food Ingredients Europe trade show in Paris.
Coopering: An enviable skill
By: Chris Mercer - 28 Nov 2011 15:46
Maybe it's because I stopped being able to 'make things' once I'd grown out of Lego, but I've always had a lot of respect for coopers.
Surprising(?) figures on UK wine consumers
By: Chris Mercer - 23 Nov 2011 15:25
Figures released by Accolade Wines show that half of "regular" wine drinkers in the UK don't know that Cabernet Sauvignon is a red wine. And, that's not all.
Will Aldi give Scotch whisky a headache?
By: Chris Mercer - 22 Nov 2011 15:13
Aldi has set a few hearts racing in the world of whisk(e)y by daring to sell a bottle of 40-year-old Scotch for just GBP49.99 (US$78), a sixth of its market value.
Sustainability; the name of the game, and we want to play the game with you
By: Olly Wehring - 22 Nov 2011 12:10
As part of our monthly management briefing series next year, just-drinks will be publishing four reports in 2012 looking at the drive for greater environmental sustainability in the industry sectors we cover – beer, soft drinks & water, spirits and wine.
"just-drinks"? More like "just-Diageo"
By: Olly Wehring - 18 Nov 2011 00:58
You may have noticed that we have a hot topic running on just-drinks at the moment, concerning my recent jaunt to New York. Travelling on Diageo's dollar, I crossed the Atlantic earlier this week, to spend two days in the company of the wine and spirits giant's executive team.
Update - just-drinks mobile is go
By: Olly Wehring - 17 Nov 2011 15:07
I'm thrilled to announce today (17 November) that the mobile version of just-drinks has been updated.
All I want for Christmas is... BEER
By: Olly Wehring - 10 Nov 2011 17:33
Kalea has released an advent calendar in time for December, which contains 24 bottles of beer.
Vinexpo coyly invites consumers to wine Rendez-Vous
By: Chris Mercer - 8 Nov 2011 12:11
Vinexpo has said that it will next year hold its first consumer wine show, in New York, but the approach sounds too cautious for my liking.
Tingyi shares soar on PepsiCo China deal
By: Michelle Russell - 7 Nov 2011 11:46
Shares in Tingyi Holding Corp rallied in early trading today (7 November) following the firm's announcement of its deal with PepsiCo on Friday.
Expect more beer duty deals in Africa
By: Chris Mercer - 2 Nov 2011 15:29
SABMiller's cut-price duty deal to produce its new Impala beer brand from cassava in Mozambique could be a sign of things to come in Africa.
Drinks tax moves up the agenda
By: Chris Mercer - 28 Oct 2011 15:24
The idea of a sin tax on unhealthy food and drink is gaining credence as Governments seek to plug revenue holes any way that they can.
SABMiller Takes Holy Approach with St Stefanus
By: Chris Mercer - 27 Oct 2011 14:57
SABMiller's abbey beer, St Stefanus, was officially launched in the UK last night and, while I don't want to trivialise any of the effort involved, it is probably best described as a bit of an experiment.
Wine's slow, steady sparkle
By: Chris Brook-Carter - 21 Oct 2011 13:25
I am just putting together the final touches to my presentation on non-Champagne sparkling wine for next week's International Sparkling Wine Symposium.
Soft drinks dream still alive in North America
By: Michelle Russell - 21 Oct 2011 13:10
Despite the North American soft drinks market continuing to be a challenging one, neither PepsiCo or The Coca-Cola Co appear willing to surrender just yet.
