LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Whiskey barrels were piled in a mountainous heap Wednesday after the rest of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed in Kentucky, nearly two weeks after part of the decades-old structure came crashing down. The remainder of the massive structure collapsed at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, Nelson County Emergency Management spokesman Milt […]
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Lewiston's Fireball whiskey nips at Allen's heels
Allen’s Coffee Flavored Brandy has a competitor nipping at its heels. For decades, the coffee-flavored liquor has far outsold other hard alcohol in the Pine Tree State, and Maine accounts for virtually all of Allen’s sales nationwide. Maine drinkers purchase so much coffee brandy that the Allen’s website claims it is “an almost cultural rite […]
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Sazerac announces $1 million expansion at Lewiston plant
LEWISTON — Saturday was “a great day for Lewiston,” U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin said, following the announcement by Sazerac Co. of a $1 million expansion at the Boston Brands of Maine bottling facility. The company’s expansion will increase capacity at its Saratoga Street plant within its present building. It does not involve additional construction on […]
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State increases prices of low-end liquor despite protest
AUGUSTA — Brushing aside pleas for delay, the State Liquor & Lottery Commission voted 3-2 Tuesday to press ahead with plans to hike the price of 770 low-end liquors this fall. Hardest hit in terms of percent are the cheapest 50-milliliter bottles of spirits known as nips, which will see their price tags go up […]
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State pulls back on many price hikes for ‘value’ liquor brands
AUGUSTA — The state is scaling back its proposal to hike the prices of many low-end “value” spirits. Gregg Mineo, the executive director of the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations, said Thursday that after hearing from companies in the liquor business, he agreed to cap the increase to any particular product so that […]
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Banning nips will cause more problems than solutions
In 2013, more than 100 workers at the then-Beam plant in Lewiston thought they were going to lose their jobs when Beam announced it would be moving its operations out of Lewiston. Fortunately, an American liquor company, Sazerac, came in and bought the plant, keeping good jobs in Lewiston and bringing a nationally recognized brand […]
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Maine House votes to override LePage’s nip deposit veto
AUGUSTA — Ignoring Gov. Paul LePage’s threat to try to ban tiny liquor bottles known as nips if the Legislature requires deposits on them, the House on Tuesday easily passed the two-thirds threshold required to overturn his veto of the measure. “Let’s reaffirm putting a tip on the nip, to nip littering in the bud,” Rep. […]
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Former White Rock Distillery sold again; jobs to stay in Lewiston
LEWISTON — A company that owns the “world’s most decorated distillery” has bought the former White Rock Distilleries bottling plant from Beam Inc. According to a press release from U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud’s office praising the sale, the plant employs about 120 people who will stay on the job. Beam announced the sale to a […]