Whiskey vs beer: Spirits beat brews in new US market data | Bruce Schreiner & Jim Salter / The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Producers of spirits have new bragging rights in the age-old whiskey vs. beer barroom debate. New figures show that spirits surpassed beer for US market-share supremacy, based on supplier revenues, a spirit industry group announced Thursday. The rise to the top for spirit-makers was fueled in part by the…