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Edinburgh Cocktail Week has confirmed more than 120 participating bars and £6 signature serves for its 2 to 11 October festival, leaving it as the largest cocktail event on the British calendar thi...

Mexico shipped 407.98 million litres of tequila overseas in 2025, its highest total in three years, according to the Consejo Regulador del Tequila. With Mexican Independence Day on 16 September, we...

Negroni Week runs from 21 to 27 September, with bar registration closing on 18 September. UK searches for the Negroni averaged 88,221 a month in June 2026, up almost 13 per cent year on year, and t...

The Hospitality Market Monitor from CGA by NIQ and AlixPartners records 1,839 licensed venue closures and 1,794 openings between March and June 2026, leaving the total at 98,564. Roughly one Britis...

UK search volume data from Ahrefs shows Aperol Spritz interest falling from 186,882 searches a month in July to 100,880 in September, while the Negroni holds flat and the Espresso Martini climbs to...

For the first time since it launched in 2010, October will pass without a London Cocktail Week. New owners Hannah Sharman-Cox and Siobhán Payne have moved the 17th edition to the week commencing 15...

HMRC's Alcohol Bulletin shows the Treasury collected £12,435 million in alcohol duty in the 2025 to 2026 financial year, £180 million less than the year before, with spirits receipts falling for th...

Mai Tai Day is marked on 30 August, and CGA by NielsenIQ data shows rum now holds a bigger share of spirits sales in British pubs and bars than whisky, worth more than £1 billion a year. The drink ...

Notting Hill Carnival celebrates its 60th anniversary from 29 to 31 August after the Mayor of London provided £4.66m for safety improvements organisers could not otherwise fund. City Hall values th...