Any ideas on what the alcoholic beverage trends will be for next year? Do you think the seltzer craze will continue? Any particular flavors that might become very popular?

Hard kombucha. Its been big out here in san diego the last year and a half or so.

White ckaws were big 2 summers ago, so im going by whats good in SD is going to get big in the country on a delayed time line.

Hard kombucha would be actually be pretty good.

Unfortunately I don't work for Karbach.

is cider over now?

SpiderDude said:

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Bourbon in a can.

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Aggierific said:

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Hard kombucha would be actually be pretty good.

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It is actually pretty tasty. There are multiple brewers now; Local Roots, Juneshine, BoochCraft being 3 of the big ones. Local Roots is my favorite.

They all run around 6 to 8%...lotta different flavors.

HTownAg98 said:

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Back to beer, next year's fad will be a pecan chocolate caramel vanilla coconut stout double aged in rum and bourbon barrels.

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On nitro

Matsui said:

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spiked cold brew coffee

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I think you will start to see some beers along these lines soon. I believe PBR's venture into this style tested really well over the summer and is about to be released nationwide. I think youll see craft breweries jump on the trend utilizing a milk stout base with heavy additions of lactose, whole milk, or cream and heavy additions of coffee. Basically a hard frappuccino.

I also thing that dry hopped hard seltzer is going to become more popular.

You are also going to see alot of experimenting with low cal/low carb hazy ipa's

NColoradoAG said:

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Matsui said:

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spiked cold brew coffee

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I also thing that dry hopped hard seltzer is going to become more popular.

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I had a dry hopped wine from infinite monkey. It was.. interesting.


Would love to see the oenobeer trend take off. Liberati's offerings are out of this world. I brought my brother and wife who are sonoma/napa snobs, and they were genuinely really liking them.

Matsui said:

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spiked cold brew coffee

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Already seeing hard coffee at ingenious in Humble.

I feel like hard coffee wluld just be a strong porter with coffee. Is this not the case?

Not trying to turn this into beer thread lite, but that beer was not terrible.

It was the weirdest thing I've ever drank. Smelled like 100% dill juice, but the taste started off like Salty Lady and ended like a pickle-juice snowcone.

Terrible.... at first. But then it grows on ya.

That's what she said

Cannibus seltzer waters are starting to take off in states where it is legal. Some are dry hopped.

For beer, I have started seeing more ipas with higher carbonate contents. I think that may turn into a big thing.

I still think that Sake is due for some love in the next 5 years or so. We need more good sake brewers in the US.

BusterAg said:

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Cannibus seltzer waters are starting to take off in states where it is legal. Some are dry hopped.

For beer, I have started seeing more ipas with higher carbonate contents. I think that may turn into a big thing.

I still think that Sake is due for some love in the next 5 years or so. We need more good sake brewers in the US.

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I can never taste a difference in sakes

I had a candy corn cream ale around Halloween that was pretty spot on in flavor to its name. And Shiner has the Smores beer.

I could see a candy bar trend..

Snickers
3 Muskateers
Butterfinger (would be weird, but I weirdly want it to happen)
Mounds (already exists with Kona's Toasted Coconut)
Milky Way
Kit Kat
Reeses (plenty of breweries have done good work with chocolate and peanut butter flavors)
Twix
etc.

We already have plenty of sour beer that tastes like sour candy.

Hopefully there isn't a "meal" sort of how lays did a bunch of experimenting.

Wasabi & Ginger
Mac N Cheese
Loaded Baked Potato
Caeser Salad

Between Ingenious, Martin House and a couple other breweries, i think all food-flavor profiles will be covered soon.

mazag08 said:

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I had a candy corn cream ale around Halloween that was pretty spot on in flavor to its name. And Shiner has the Smores beer.

I could see a candy bar trend..

Snickers

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Redhorn's Superfly Jimmy Snicka Stout is one of my favorite beers they make.

A buddy of mine just launched this line of vodka sodas in a can out of Austin. The appeal isn't really there for me and I love vodka but he was responsible for growing Deep Eddy into a national brand so I'm interested to see where it goes.

https://drinkcanteen.com/product-lineup

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AUSTIN, Texas Serial beverage innovators from Austin, Texas are making moves once again. Founders Brandon Cason (Waterloo Sparkling Water & Deep Eddy Vodka), Daniel Barnes (Waterloo Sparkling Water & Treaty Oak Distilling) and Caroline Fabacher are excited to unveil CANTEEN, a sparkling vodka soda lineup made with all-natural flavors but without sugar (0 grams), carbs (0 grams), or sodium (0 grams). Better still, each can contains only 99 calories. CANTEEN will be a driver in the "ready to drink" ("RTD") category as it looks to launch at a $12.99 retail price point which is a clear value to consumers.

Launching this Fall, CANTEEN is a 5% ABV beverage in the convenience of a standard 12 oz. can that delivers a premium, fresh taste without the nutritional facts consumers want to avoid. The debut line up of all-American flavors will include Black Cherry, Watermelon, Grapefruit, Lime, and Cucumber Mint. Sold in 6-packs, CANTEEN will hit stores this fall, just in time for tailgate season.

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Where did you buy that Best Maid beer? I've not seen that in B/CS and I love dill pickles. Looks...interesting.

Cutwater and a number of others have released similar lineups 1 or 2 years ago.

They are okay and 7% at the same price point.

Edit: theyve done vodka sodas canned plus a wide variety of other drinks canned. Im curious about the cold brew one.

https://cutwaterspirits.com/canned-cocktails/

PKL FKR by New Braunfels Brewing is another pickle-based beer. I'm a fan.