Government incompetence strikes again, turning the wine industry upside down with red tape and confusion.
Some people really think nonalcoholic beer is a gateway to alcoholism.
Utah’s experiment with stricter drunk driving laws has led to more fatalities, not fewer. The push for lower BAC limits is missing the real problem.
The FDA’s latest nutrition rules target dried cherries and cranberries, putting small farmers at risk while offering zero benefits to consumers.
Despite increasing demand, cities across the U.S. are pushing bans on new drive-thru restaurants in the name of reducing traffic and promoting walkability.
If you want to drink alcohol in California after 2 a.m., it helps to be the billionaire owner of the L.A. Clippers.
Government pre-approval for every label could crush craft breweries. And do you really want to force the Carthusian monks who make Green Chartreuse to reveal their ingredients?
Amid rising grocery costs, the FTC's fight against the merger may end up hurting the very consumers it's supposed to protect.
Washington bureaucrats are rewriting the rules on drinking, and a hidden panel of unelected officials could be paving the way for Prohibition 2.0.
But 11 states still forbid wine from being sold in grocery stores anyway.
It seems anything the government touches dies—today, it’s thousands of acres of once-productive vineyards.
Bureaucratic overreach is stirring up unnecessary trouble for Utah bartenders.
Competing visions on tipping policies highlight the differences in the candidates’ approaches to winning over working-class voters—but neither will provide much benefit.
A modern legal battle challenges the federal ban on distilling alcohol at home—a favorite hobby of the Founding Fathers.
A proposed USDA rule would require RFID tagging of all cattle and bison that move across state lines.
The feds’ focus on large-scale crops hinders the resurgence of heritage grains and results in less food diversity.
New research and paternalistic legislators could threaten our last in-flight comfort.
Proposed legislation mandates folic acid in masa flour, sparking fears among traditional tortilla makers about costs and cultural impact.
Once booming, the industry now faces closures and stifling market access due to outdated laws and burdensome middlemen.
It isn't about stopping crime—it's about protecting a favored constituency's jobs.
Arcane tax rules based on carbonation levels are flattening the growth of America's craft cider industry.
Uncovering Big Beer’s crafty campaign to limit consumer access to canned cocktails.
Chasing Seattle's shadow, Minneapolis' new ride-share wage law threatens to derail the gig economy.
Sadly, not by drinking it—the government just lost a fifth of the state’s inventory.
Just two weeks after the law went into effect, Seattleites had to contend with $26 coffees and $32 sandwiches.
The infamous food-beverage ratio may be reformed, but not abolished.
A new joint employer rule from the NLRB threatens to fundamentally change the business relationship between a franchise and its parent company.
Cities around the country are contemplating bans on drive-thrus and other new regulations.
According to a new study there is no correlation between increased youth drinking during COVID and alcohol delivery.
There is no demonstrable link between alcohol delivery laws and our heightened pandemic drinking.
In an attempt to create a new banquet license, a bill introduced in Utah would require every restaurant to build a wall that blocks off its private party space from the rest of the establishment.
Top government officials reportedly kept rare bourbons for themselves and other powerful insiders.
Ohio might be on the verge of making home distilling legal—but federal law will still prohibit it.
Reformers had two years of unprecedented victories—and then protectionists started using scare tactics to block them
In Colorado, you can have weed delivered to your door but not alcohol.
Freeing up Virginia’s liquor market is more worthwhile than just busting its whiskey black market.
On the ballot in November, Coloradans can choose to have more alcohol in grocery stores and available for delivery.
Do you want to brag about America’s alcohol industry, or do you want to crack down on it?
Regulations ban food sales, limit the number of events, and include other inane requirements.
Many states allowed restaurants to sell to-go cocktails during COVID-19. Research shows that change is not linked to an increase in drunk driving deaths.
The fine print of the latest alcohol regulation proposal in Massachusetts is revealing.
The history of wine delivery is pretty clear.
The alcohol sector has seen more than 6,000 new entrants, but the Treasury still thinks it has an antitrust problem.
Government-run booze stores in Virginia may have met their match.
At least 20 states will permanently allow to-go cocktails, and more may be coming.
The Prohibition-era three-tier system is causing consolidation, not the market.
The mandates would be retroactive, potentially punishing businesses for violating rules they did not even know existed.
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