A federal court in California dismissed a false advertising suit against Anheuser-Busch brought by consumers who purchased Beck’s beer believing it did not contain alcohol. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved Beck’s label, shielding the defendant from liability.
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Alcoholic drinks will be prohibited in French parks and other outdoor public spaces as part of the new limited nationwide lockdown to stem the Covid-19 crisis, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced Thursday.
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A Fourth Circuit panel Tuesday reversed a grant of qualified immunity to several sheriff’s deputies in Virginia, ruling they failed to act on an intoxicated man’s obvious medical needs before he was found dead in a jail cell.
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A hangover from Trump-era tariff disputes could become even more painful for American whiskey distillers unless their entanglement in a trans-Atlantic trade fight is resolved soon.
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Paris police warned Friday that alcohol consumption will be banned across large swathes of the capital this weekend, in the hope of avoiding a repeat of the huge crowds that have been gathering despite France’s Covid-19 curfew.
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In a 25-year-old case involving the export of Italian ethanol to Greece, EU judges held that products improperly exported within the bloc cannot be taxed by two different countries.
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Chemical traces found in thousand-year-old wine containers have led researchers to believe the wine trade actually flourished in medieval Islamic Sicily.
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The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday rejected a Florida wine distributor’s challenge to Missouri’s liquor license residency laws, affirming a federal judge’s dismissal based on Supreme Court precedent.
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Botanicals are essential to the creation of gin, but a class says Bombay Sapphire’s “grains of paradise” run afoul an antiquated Florida law against adulterating liquor with spices.
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Bars have been closed for over three months, Carnival celebrations are canceled and it’s not clear when things will get better. That’s a big problem for Germany’s many small brewers, which rely heavily on selling draft beer to bars and restaurants.
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Anheuser-Busch must stop advertising Michelob Ultra organic seltzer as “the only” and “the first” certified organic hard seltzer.
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Two Christian men were publicly flogged Monday in Indonesia’s ultra-conservative Aceh province for drinking alcohol and gambling, in a rare instance of non-Muslims facing a punishment frequently condemned by rights groups.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled in favor of the CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective on its claim that beer produced on leased premises does not count toward the production threshold at which they can no longer sell beer to-go. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code authorizes to-go beer sales by Texas brewers with a production below 225,000 barrels a year.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit ruled against 21 bar owners challenging Governor John Bel Edwards’ Covid-19-related order that allowed on-site consumption of alcohol and food at restaurants but prohibited on-site consumption at bars.
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Some suppliers of Belgian beers are waking up to a post-Brexit hangover as exporting their brews to thirsty British drinkers across the Channel becomes more difficult and prices go up.
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Tariffs on cognac were confirmed by the Trump administration on New Year’s Eve, marking the latest trade salvo from the outgoing U.S. president and a further escalation of a long-running transatlantic feud.
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa reimposed a ban on alcohol sales and ordered the closure of all bars Monday as part of new restrictions to help the country battle a resurgence of the coronavirus, including a new variant.
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A 1974 Ohio law that criminalizes possession of a firearm while intoxicated does not violate the Second Amendment and can be enforced against citizens in their own homes, a divided state high court ruled Wednesday.
Read moreA federal court in Indiana temporarily blocked enforcement of the state’s residency and minimum food sales requirements, which require out-of-state limited liability companies operating establishments that serve alcoholic drinks to earn annual gross food sales exceeding $100,000, while not imposing minimum food sales on Indiana companies.
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Sheriff’s officials say they’ve busted an illegal winery that was operating at a municipal sewage plant in a small north Alabama town.
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