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The Beverage Alcohol Retailers Conference (BARC) has established itself as the only off-premise beverage retailer event in the industry. Independent retailers large and small from across the United States gather for education, networking, and collaboration with other industry colleagues and sponsors. This unique industry event provides a space and opportunity for high-level dialogue with your peers. Attendees will network and share best practices to help improve your business. BARC has track sessions, store visits, panel discussions, receptions, and keynote presentations. Hundreds of retailers have attended BARC for the first four years, bringing countless ideas back to their businesses. If you've joined us in the past, you know how important these shows are to our off-premise industry. Whether you're a past BARC attendee or brand new, please consider joining us! Retailers can join the June conference for $395 by registering today!
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Independent bottling is common in Scotch, but not in American whiskey. Why? We ask Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski, founders of Lost Lantern, a fast-growing independent bottler of American whiskeys. They talk about the process of discovering unique spirits, picking which distilleries to work with, and what's next for American single malt, which has been a category focus for them.
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Buffalo Trace Distillery is doubling their distilling capabilities. This has monumental ramifications for the whiskey industry, and represents an enormous production undertaking. Helping oversee this project is Danny Kahn, Distillation and Aging Operations Director at Sazerac. We talked with Kahn about the massive upgrade at Buffalo Trace, while also delving into Sazerac's future overall, whether whiskey terroir exists, his career path with a past in brewing, what's next for the modern bourbon boom and more.
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Fresh off being named the new Master Distiller of Woodford Reserve, Elizabeth McCall joins us to talk about what's next for the brand, learning under the former Master Distiller Chris Morris, expanding Woodford's production, sustainability in the whiskey industry, and how young people can get involved in the industry.
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
In this episode, we discuss current legal topics in the alcohol industry, which will be explored further during the annual Legal Symposium (March 13-15) of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA). Joining us are NABCA CEO Neal Insley and NABCA Associate General Council Buddy Buckner. What are the pressing alcohol legal questions of the day? And how much did the Covid-19 pandemic affect that? Tune in to find out! And for more information on NABCA and its annual Legal Symposium, which anyone can attend, visit nabca.org or nabca.org/meeting.
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Beverage Dynamics Editor Kyle Swartz talks with small-business expert, author and BARC speaker Tom Shay about the importance of beverage alcohol retail mastermind groups.
Melissa Dowling
Melissa Dowling is the editor of Cheers, the beverage business magazine for full-service restaurants and bars, which also includes the Cheers@Home digital consumer magazine and the Cheers Beverage Summit professional event. Founded in 1990, Cheers reaches more than 130,000 on-premise beverage professionals nationwide with each edition. Prior to joining Cheers in 2012, Melissa was the editor for business-to-business magazines targeting executives in the direct marketing, ecommerce and retail industries.
Kyle Swartz
Kyle Swartz is editor of Beverage Dynamics, the nation’s only trade magazine dedicated to the off-premise alcohol industry. Prior to this position, he covered politics on the editorial board of a daily newspaper in Connecticut. His joke (which is also the truth) is that the politicians drove him to alcohol. Kyle resides in south-central Connecticut with his wife and 1-year-old daughter. His drinks of choice are craft beer and bourbon.