Once booming, the industry now faces closures and stifling market access due to outdated laws and burdensome middlemen.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.
Our first president might be shocked at the regulatory machinery imposed on distillers.
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