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By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com Move over, Black Velvet. There’s a new No. 1 liquor brand in the state, and its name is Tito’s. After holding the spot of top brand of spirits in Iowa for about 10 years, Black Velvet Canadian Whiskey gave way to Tito’s Handmade Vodka, which outsold BV by about 40,000 gallons in the fiscal year ending June 30. Black Velvet took over the No. 2 position, …

There's a new liquor at #1 of Iowa's Alcohol Beverage Division's annual report for 2022.

There's a new liquor at #1 of Iowa's Alcohol Beverage Division's annual report for 2022.

There's a new liquor at #1 of Iowa's Alcohol Beverage Division's annual report for 2022.

There's a new liquor at #1 of Iowa's Alcohol Beverage Division's annual report for 2022.

In perhaps another indication of how 2020 has been a year most people want to forget, Iowans spent a record amount of money on liquor this past year. The increase came during the 2020 state fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2019, through the end of June this year — a period that includes the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in stores, bars and taverns operating under tight restrictions. Despite the pandemic, or perhaps because of it, total liquor sales in Iowa dur...

Like the heart, home apparently also is where the booze is. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iowa last March and a subsequent temporary shutdown of Iowa’s bars, restaurants and hospitality industry and mitigation directives to slow the viral spread meant more Iowans were working and drinking at home — which translated into record liquor sales for fiscal 2020. Officials in the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division say in a report released Thursday that liquor sales totaled $367.3 million ...