alcohol

Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation has suspended the consumption of alcoholic beverages at bars across the state as a surge in new coronavirus cases continues.

One of the world’s largest brewers says it may have to dump 400 million bottles of beer because of a ban on alcohol sales in South Africa.

The official drink of the Kentucky Derby is the bourbon-based Mint Julep. Have you ever wondered where bourbon comes from or how it gets made? “1st Look” got a lesson in how to properly distill and age the liquor.

Liquor stores around the country saw a huge boost last week as shoppers stocked up on supplies.

A Nielsen study showed that alcohol sales were up 55% the week of March 21 as most people were following shelter-in-place orders.

Jay Polke, the co-owner of Willowbrook Spirit Shoppe in Cromwell said his business doubled this weekend, following Friday’s announcement that non-essential businesses in the state would have to temporarily close Monday night. “There was a big surge here.  It was like two buses parked outside and all of a sudden all of these people started coming in,” said Polke....

As restaurants around the state continue to adapt to a very difficult set of circumstances there is some relief. In addition to being allowed to do take-out and delivery, some restaurants are now allowed to serve take-out alcohol. According a recently established governor’s executive order, restaurants with a liquor permit will be allowed to provide alcohol to-go. It must...

The Department of Consumer Protection is adjusting its rules to allow certain restaurants to sell alcohol as a take-out option. All restaurants and bars in the state have been ordered to close dining rooms, though they are still allowed to serve take-out and delivery food. The new rules, which go into effect at noon Friday, will allow specific types of…

Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted. What’s more, it’s been rising for two decades, and it’s not clear when it will fall again. That’s the picture painted by federal health statistics, which show a rise in per-person consumption and increases in emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths tied to drinking. The stats aren’t all bad....

The number of alcohol-related deaths has grown rapidly in recent decades, according to a new analysis of death certificates, NBC News reports. The research, published Wednesday in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, is from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.

High school students were getting marijuana for vape pens from a gas station in Cheshire, according to police, and a clerk is accused of selling it to them.

A Putnam man faces DUI and reckless driving charges after a crash in Putnam that seriously injured one of his passengers, according to Putnam police.

A new method for battling teenage opioid abuse comes not in the form of a new drug or counseling method, but in special “recovery schools” that emphasize communal support and positive peer pressure.

A fertilizer explosion in West, Texas, that killed 15 and injured dozens of others in April 2013 was intentionally set, government officials said during a press conference Wednesday.

A new Target store set to open in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood is on track to become the first ever Target store to serve alcohol to customers.

A new Target store set to open in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood is on track to become the first ever Target store to serve alcohol to customers.