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Scotland is nine months away from the launch of the Deposit Return Scheme, which is set to make drink prices more expensive, critics say.

Downloads Alcohol is so ingrained in the British psyche that the word ‘sober’ also means drab and reserved. That might soon not be the case, because the way society views sobriety is rapidly changing. Yes, a new generation of drinkers is moderating alcohol intake or abstaining entirely. But they don’t fit the dour stereotype of teetotallers. They want to party, quaffing sophisticated drinks. They just don’t want to feel rough the following morning. They’re the people who have helped grocery sales of low & no alcohol surge in value by 25.4% to £164.6m, on units up 22.3% [Nielsen 52 ...

Downloads If anyone needs a big drink and a knees-up right now, it’s the brewing industry. Sure, off-trade beer & cider sales have spiked by £1.2bn (36.5%) and the supers have shifted an extra 514.7 million (32.1%) litres [Kantar 52 w/e 21 February 2021]. But that’s a mere sip when compared with the damage Covid has inflicted on pub beer sales, which plunged 56% and cost publicans £7.8bn [BBPA]. For brewers, it’s been the perfect storm. The collapse of the pub trade was followed by a spike in packaging material prices, as brewers scrabbled to pour beer originally destined for hospital...

Downloads Alcohol is so ingrained in the British psyche that the word ‘sober’ also means drab and reserved. That might soon not be the case, because the way society views sobriety is rapidly changing. Yes, a new generation of drinkers is moderating alcohol intake or abstaining entirely. But they don’t fit the dour stereotype of teetotallers. They want to party, quaffing sophisticated drinks. They just don’t want to feel rough the following morning. They’re the people who have helped grocery sales of low & no alcohol surge in value by 25.4% to £164.6m, on units up 22.3% [Nielsen 52 ...