Articles Tagged with ''hard cider''

This summer seems to be all about celebratory beverages, as readers are showing favor with spirits and alternative beverages that support a night out on the patio or on the town. In Beverage Industry’s June New Products poll, readers voted tropical rum beverage Blue Chair Bay Banana Rum as the top beverage posted on www.bevindustry.com during the month.

Americans are used to greeting pizza deliverymen at their doors, but a new smartphone app is bringing delivery into a new realm.

When it comes to the beer segment, more consumers are seeking upscale offerings. Andrea Riberi, senior vice president of alcohol beverages with Nielsen, New York, told Beverage Industry in its March issue that super-premium domestic beers, which include brands like MillerCoors’ Blue Moon and Anheuser-Busch’s Bud Light Lime and Michelob Ultra, gained 2 percent in case volume last year.

Vermont Hard Cider Co. LLC added a new hard cider to its Woodchuck Hard Cider Cellar Series.

Johnny Appleseed Hard Cider, a brand of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, is working to break world records by building the world’s largest ice luge in Boston on June 19.

Anheuser-Busch, the U.S. arm of Anheuser-Busch InBev, released its first wholly new brand in eight years: Johnny Appleseed Hard Apple Cider.

The Boston Beer Co. added a new, year-round specialty hard cider to its Angry Orchard Cider House Collection: The Muse.

Liquid concentrates took the U.S. market by storm in 2011 with the launch of Kraft Foods’ Mio liquid water enhancers.

Heineken USA is phasing out the original Strongbow Hard Cider recipe and replacing it with new Strongbow Gold Apple Hard Cider and Strongbow Honey & Apple Hard Cider.

White Plains, N.Y.-based Heineken USA, which acquired import rights to the Strongbow Hard Cider brand in January 2013, is phasing out the original Strongbow Hard Cider recipe in place of the new Strongbow Gold Apple Hard Cider and Strongbow Honey & Apple Hard Cider. In a blind taste test conducted last year by Rogil Research, both men and women noted that they strongly preferred the new crisp, refreshing flavor profile of Strongbow Gold Apple, the company says.