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  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Summer Food & Drink special
    ‘It’s not flavourless. It’s delicate and really, really nice’: the UK’s lager revolution

    How a new generation of brewers is transforming the nation’s favourite drink

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    Procter & Gamble Co
    P&G reports strongest sales growth in two decades

    Consumer goods group joins Heineken in passing on higher costs to customers

  • Monday, 18 April, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Meet the women changing the face of Brooklyn’s craft drinks scene

    Five pioneering female-led breweries and distilleries making their mark on a traditionally male-dominated industry

  • Saturday, 26 March, 2022
    FT SeriesSpring food & drink special
    Goodbye moss, hello mesquite: new ways with whisky

    Distillers are turning to local ingredients to fire up their malts

  • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
    How To Spend It
    Collectable whiskies with Prohibition spirit

    The market is booming for historic American bottles – and not just because they were banned in 1920

  • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    The big smoke: the top places to drink mezcal in London

    From underground joints to a sleek eatery in the sky, here are the best spots in the capital to sample this sophisticated — and matriarchal — Mexican spirit

  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    News in-depthUK inflation
    Pubgoers told to expect surge in UK beer prices as brewing costs soar

    Bars face dilemma over how much of additional expenses to pass on to customers already facing cost of living squeeze

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Diageo PLC
    Diageo sales pass pre-Covid levels

    Home cocktail-making boosts revenues despite supply chain disruptions

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    FT SeriesWellbeing and fitness: How To Eat It in 2022
    Are you ready for the booze-free off-licence?

    Designer Anya Hindmarch is the latest person to tap the low-alcohol trend

  • Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
    FT SeriesHow to eat and drink it this Christmas
    Nightcaps worth going to bed with

    Because you deserve a great drink at the end of the day 

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA
    AB InBev chief dismisses notion beer is losing ground to spirits

    CEO seeks to counter perception among investors that drinkers are turning away from beverage

  • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
    How To Spend It
    The glass (ware) of 2021

    Make sure your drinks are dressed to impress

  • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
    Mitchells & Butlers PLC
    M&B warns of threat from rising costs

    All Bar One owner returns to profit but says higher utility bills could hamper recovery

  • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
    How To Spend It
    We need to put the juniper back in the gin

    A toast to the brands who still make the botanic berry star

  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    How To Spend It
    From Who to brew: what does Roger Daltrey’s beer taste like?

    We try the rock star’s latest venture with his son in Sussex

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    Tax
    UK drinks trade welcomes alcohol duty overhaul in Budget

    Chancellor announces a sweeping overhaul of alcohol taxes

  • Monday, 4 October, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Why has the backbar gone on mute?

    Instead of showing us his trophy bottles, the modern bartender wants to woo us with conversation instead...

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Why British rum’s the real deal

    From the Highlands to Hertfordshire, new distillers are hitting the sweet spot

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    J D Wetherspoon PLC
    Wetherspoon reports record annual loss following lockdowns

    Late summer sales at UK pub group lag behind rivals

  • Wednesday, 29 September, 2021
    Brooke Masters
    As pubs pack out, drinks companies worry about an abstemious youth

    Premium and low alcohol products benefit from research and advertising clout as tastes change

  • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s top 10 pubs by the river Thames

    A toast to the UK capital’s finest waterfront watering holes — rich in history and offering good food and splendid views

  • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
    How To Spend It
    What does Yamazaki’s $60,000 single malt taste like?

    Our drinks writer has a first sip of an ultra-rare 55-year-old whisky

  • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Inside Glenmorangie’s dazzling new distillery

    The ‘Willy Wonka of whisky’ offers an exclusive invitation to his Lighthouse laboratory to share the future of scotch

  • Wednesday, 1 September, 2021
    J D Wetherspoon PLC
    Wetherspoons latest group to battle shortages as some beers run dry

    Pub chain blames strike action as it joins others suffering from supply chain disruption

  • Wednesday, 18 August, 2021
    LexCarlsberg AS
    Carlsberg: raising a glass to recovery Premium content

    Europe’s football championship and fine weather helped the Danish brewer to a strong second quarter

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