Brown liquor glutwatch intensifies

Editor’s note: I will be in Indianapolis covering the 2025 Craft Brewers Conference next week. If you’ll be there and want to meet up, get in touch and we’ll try to make it happen!—Dave.

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• Don’t look now, but Twisted Tea is slowing down;

• Constellation Brands got sued for fluffing its wine outlook—again;

• Mexico halted Patrón’s exports over its “additive-free” marketing;

• Zoomers aren’t “sober-curious” so much as “poor;”

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