The Ultimate Cocktail Challenge is the first major competition designed to judge which specific brand of spirits work best in different cocktails. Founder F. Paul Pacult explains how this will work.More>>

Results of Polished Palate’s International Rum Competition; NYC holds Spirits of Mexico, New York Spirits Awards and Wine Awards; and new spirits from orange Ketel One to G’Vine Nouaison.More>>

Distilled spirits may be recession resilient, but the trick now is to gain greater momentum as the industry moves from recession to recovery, according to DISCUS.More>>

Jack Robertiello hadn’t been to the Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade Show for at least five years, and he was curious about how things had changed since then. Here are his impressions.More>>

Two major spirit competitions announced their winners last week: the Ultimate Spirits Challenge and the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Find out the winners from every category.More>>

Claire Smith, head of spirit creation & mixology for Moët Hennessy’s Belvedere Vodka, discusses the differences between U.S. and UK bartenders, and the future of the vodka business.More>>

More than 520 entered, but only a dozen distillates were awarded the esteemed Ultimate Spirits Challenge Chairman’s Trophy as the highest scoring spirits of their category.More>>

World Cocktail Week is to be held May 6-13, with fundraising events planned in cities around the world; 16th annual Malt Advocate Whisky Awards announced; Foley’s Pub gets Danny Boy whiskey.More>>

The deadline to enter the second Spirits International Prestige (SIP) Awards is April 30; a reduced entry fee is available for those submitting by March 12 ($275 rather than $325).More>>

New mixology, cocktails and bar culture books are out, like Tony Abou-Ganim's The Modern Mixologist, Yuri Kato's Japanese Cocktails, The Bar Green Book and P Moss' Blue Vegas.More>>