Your personal Drinks Industry Ireland digest
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Your personal Drinks Industry Ireland digest

Vintners seek “new reality” support from banks, insurance

On-trade | Help sought from banks & insurers in helping keep publicans’ businesses afloat on zero turnover

Ministers’ intervention welcomed by hospitality industry

On-trade | Urgent Government response now required for a sector already facing unprecedented challenges as result of widespread cancellations

Hattrick for Hinch

Marketing | Latest accolade for Ninth Wave Gin is the 3rd industry honour for Hinch Distillery since launching 8 months ago

Vintners call for clarity on pub response to Coronavirus

On-trade | Publicans call for guidance on capacity measures, social distancing and financial impact of Covid-19

Beer, wine & spirits escape UK Budget increase

Marketing | UK Chancellor freezes excise duty on alcohol and abolishes rates for small business for 2020

Covid-19 – pubs & restaurants “the canary in the coal mine”

On-trade | Anecdotal feedback suggests that bookings for end of March & for April being heavily cancelled

IrishWhiskey360° & Tourism Ireland promote Irish whiskey tourism in US and Canada

Marketing | In just 4 years, total number of visitors to Irish whiskey distilleries and brand homes grew 54%

Jägermeister launches 3rd x Berlin Scholarship

Jägermeister is once again looking for three motivated ‘rookie’ bartenders between 21 and 35 who’re willing to push forward their career and seek three months of adventure in Berlin.

BrewDog’s latest Outpost opens to Ireland’s “pint pullers”

Brewdog’s Outpost in Dublin’s Capital Dock opened its doors recently to “the pint pullers of Ireland” to help celebrate the opening of its 100th BrewDog bar, now with locations spanning the globe as far afield as Brisbane, Tokyo, Cincinnati and Berlin.

Bar staff – if your remember only one thing….

A recent seminar by Diageo’s Padaraig McLaughlan to bar staff in the Landmark pub at the bottom of Camden Street, Dublin, led to Closing Time learning some interesting turns of bar phrase....
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