Weekly Beverage Alcohol Recap | July 17, 2026

Podcast: Beverage Business Briefing · Carlos DeOliveira

Opublikowano: 2026-07-17

**Key Themes** - Persistent off-premise softness (–2.7 to –3.1% dollars YTD/4-week ranges; volumes –3.9 to –4.9%) despite Independence Day and World Cup lifts. - Prepared cocktails/spirits-based RTDs and NA beer as primary growth engines; wine and craft under structural pressure. - Distribution shock from RNDC wind-down cascading into widespread payment delays; Reyes total-beverage rise and regional consolidations. - Escalating Canada trade friction via Tenney’s CANADA Act and Section 301 push. - Sharp wine-industry right-sizing: Top-50 production –19% since 2019, acute Napa vineyard economics, Oregon “worst crisis in 20 years,” early light California harvest. - Leadership a...