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Your personal Drinks Industry Ireland digest

Stout volumes up 26% 2020/’21

Marketing | Stout still down by 10.3% compared to 2019 pre-pandemic sales

7-Day licenses down 1.6%

On-trade | Off-licences issued up by 1%

Supply chain issues negatively impact production for 90% of Irish Whiskey producers

Marketing | Irish Whiskey Association publishes International Trade Report 2022

September bar sales volumes 2.5% down on August

On-trade | Bar sales values showing slight growth

First Irish Whiskey goes Green in 2022

Marketing | Ahascragh Distillery on track to produce some of first truly zero-emission spirits in Ireland this year 

Irish Pub Awards Finalists attend management seminar

A gathering of 61 regional winners in this year's Irish Pub Awards celebrated the return of the competition at the Galmont Hotel and Spa in Galway City recently after a two-year gap due to Covid.

Smithwick's Experience introduces Barrel Yard & Flavours Room

Smithwick’s Experience Kilkenny has launched its new Barrel Yard outdoor space and Flavours Room sensory experience.

No room for half-pints in Bittles bar

A Belfast publican has put in writing what the trade has known all along – that a half-pint of stout is not merely half the time and effort of a barman providing a full pint.
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