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Your personal Drinks Industry Ireland digest

St Patrick’s Day hospitality boost

On-trade | Pubs recorded 345,000 transactions on 17th March

Irish whiskey “on course” to overtake Scotch in US

Marketing | Irish Whiskey now ranks among Top 5 Fastest-Growing Spirits

Conor McQuaid to leave Irish Distillers

Marketing | Nodjame Fouad to replace Chief Executive & Chairman on 1st July

Off-trade beer prices up 13.2%.

Off-trade | March beer prices down 0.3% on February

Dead Rabbit founders part ways

On-trade | Dead Rabbit to expand across US while new venture Hazel and Apple to open in South Carolina

Double Gold for Connacht Distillery

The Connacht Distillery has been awarded a Double Gold medal for Batch 1 of its Connacht Single Malt Irish Whiskey at this year’s San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

Supplies - "... only as strong as the weakest link..."

Worldwide delivery delays and price rises have characterised the wholesale beverage trade over the past two years. Here, Pat Nolan attempts to understand what lies behind the delay in getting imported product into Irish importers' warehouses... It's not a pretty picture and the on-trade could soon feel the full effects.

Mixers - a Premium case for further consideration

The mixers category proved notably buoyant through Lockdown and shows little sign of fading to a wallflower any time soon.

Could cider become the Apple of the publican's eye?

As we approach World Cider Day it's worth bearing in mind that Ireland remains one of the leading cider markets in Europe. With the years ahead offering a potential uplift in off-trade cider sales, we review how this might affect the potential for growing cider sales in the pub.
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