Items Tagged with 'flavored malt beverages (FMB)'

Brewers Collective, the craft business unit of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, ventures into the flavored malt beverage category with the debut of LQD. LQD (pronounced L-Q-D) draws from the collective imagination and ingenuity of the craft brewers to develop a line for health-minded consumers while delivering on taste and quality, it says.

Malibu, a brand of New York-based Pernod Ricard USA, is adding a splash to summer with its latest innovation. Malibu Splash is a sparkling ready-to-drink malt beverage that is available in four flavors: Strawberry, Lime, Passion Fruit and Pineapple.

With just 90 calories and zero sugar, Loverboy is a naturally sweetened sparkling hard tea. 

LYTT released two new flavors: Cryo Candy and LYTT Agent Orange. Both flavors are a reverse-osmosis filtered malt beverage, infused with herbs and zero sugar, with a 13.9 percent alcohol by volume.

December always is a busy time of year, but that didn’t stop innovators in the beverage market from releasing the latest crop of new products. In Beverage Industry’s Readers’ Choice: New Product of the Month poll for December, Hercules Mulligan Rum + Rye closed out the monthly poll by garnering 30 percent of the votes.

As a brand that is known for being both mischievous and fun, Smirnoff Ice, a brand of Diageo North America, Norwalk, Conn., has created the ultimate holiday present this holiday season: three different cardboard boxes that appear to contain luxurious home goods items and appliances, but actually contain a bottle of Smirnoff Ice premium flavored malt beverage.

Wild Leaf Craft Hard Tea, a brand of The Boston Beer Co., introduced its self-titled line of ready-to-drink (RTD) hard teas.

Chicago-based MillerCoors launched its newest innovation: Cape Line Sparkling Cocktails. Crafted with six ingredients — carbonated water, alcohol from real cane sugar, real cane sugar, lemon and/or lime juice concentrate, natural flavors, and fruit juice added for color — Cape Line Sparkling Cocktails is naturally gluten-free and contains 120 calories with an alcohol by volume of 4.5 percent.