Spirits Gallery: New Spring Releases from Bumbu, Hecate, Booker’s and More

In this gallery, we highlight some of the notable new releases over the past two months, which includes new releases from Bumbu, Elephant Gin and Booker's, a new basil-infused vodka from Manhattan, the debut of a pair of watermelon expressions from Malibu and Absolut, plus more. 

Two Roads Breaks Into Spirits-Based RTD Segment with Daybreaker Vodka Cocktails

The Stratford, Connecticut-based craft brewery has launched Daybreaker, a family of ready-to-drink, vodka-based cocktails, available in three flavors: Blood Orange, Cran-Lime and Meyer Lemonade. All three are mixed with real fruit juice and vodka distilled at Two Roads’ Area Two research and development space.

Profile: Waterbird Spirits RTD Cocktails Take Flight

Since launching, the Charlottesville, Virginia-based company has expanded its offerings from vodka to tequila-based drinks, and from three to 30 states, aligning itself with distributors such as Columbia and Gold Coast Beverage.

Spirits Feature: How Craft Spirits Have Fared A Year Into The Pandemic

Pre-existing off-premise positioning boosted craft spirits’ chances, but an increase in demand also helped the industry thrive. Alcohol e-commerce platform Drizly recently reported that wine was replaced for the first time by liquor, and that demand shows no sign of slowing.

Spirits Gallery: RTD Cocktails Spring Forward

In this gallery, we highlight some of the notable recent releases from the past month, highlighted by a slew of tequila-based cocktails and seltzers, an RTD debut from Savage and Cooke, and baseball-themed cans from Cutwater Spirits. 

Spirits Gallery: New Names Enter RTD Cocktails

In this gallery, we highlight some of the notable new releases thus far, which features several well-known spirits brands -- including Bombay Sapphire and Ogden's Own -- making their RTD debuts. 

Spirits Gallery: Whisky Stars Amidst New Year Releases

In this gallery, we highlight some of the most notable and eye-catching new releases from January and February, including a Portuguese cask-finished Scotch from Dewar's, a special charity themed expression from New Riff, and three new ultra-premium offerings from Benriach. 

Sesh Seeks Middle Ground With Hybrid Cocktail-Seltzers

One year, one rebrand and one reformulation after its original scheduled launch, XED Beverages co-founders Zeke Bronfman and Nate Medow are looking to pick up from where they never got a chance to start with the company's debut product: Sesh, a four-SKU line of 6% ABV cocktail-based spiked seltzers.

Molson Coors To Distribute RTD Cocktail Line Superbird

Molson Coors’ rapidly expanding beverage interests now include ready-to-drink cocktails, following the company’s announcement today of a partnership to distribute tequila-based cocktail Superbird.

Gallery: New Year, New Spirits

In this gallery, we highlight some of the notable new releases from the past month, including the debut of Cutwater Spirits' latest RTD cocktail, the launch of ultra premium tequila brand Dos Primos, a music-inspired package from Remy Martin and a new look for SelvaRey Rum designed by accliaimed singer Bruno Mars.

Spirits Gallery: Ready-for-Winter RTDs

In the spirit of starting next year off with a touch of optimism, in this gallery we raise our glasses in acknowledgement of the latest ready-to-drink releases from the likes of Dry Fly, 503 Distilling, Cutwater Spirits, 'Merican Mule, Troop and Mayne & Co., along with newly launched Blue Blazer.