UKHospitality’s Chief Executive Kate Nicholls explains how the UK hospitality industry has fared having opened several weeks before our own.

We review the Irish whiskey market which is very much geared towards premiumisation.

The fourth most popular spirits call in the drinks trade (after vodka, Irish whiskey & gin), rum sales seem set to increase in both volume and value. Little surprise then that as a cocktail constituent rum should be proving itself increasingly popular. We review the cocktail market for rum.

With the on-trade open once more, the sales potential of the highly-profitable shots market has returned. We speak to some pubs about how this market is performing in today's pandemic-conscious pub.

Thanks to the pandemic the Oktoberfest festival in Germany (or anywhere else in Europe) will not take place this year.

Emerging from Lockdown it's proving difficult to get the level of customer visits up to anything like what it was before the pandemic.