Harpoon Brewery and Dunkin’ Craft Three New Beers for Fall

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Joel Whitaker

For the fourth year in a row, Harpoon Brewery partnered with Dunkin’ to give fans a fresh way to celebrate fall. Joining Harpoon Dunkin’ Pumpkin Spiced Latte Ale, three new beers are hitting stores this September all made with coffee, donuts or matcha tea from Dunkin’: Harpoon Dunkin’ Blueberry Matcha IPA, Harpoon Dunkin’ Maple Crème Blonde Ale and Harpoon Dunkin’ Midnight American Porter.

To mark the launch, Harpoon and Dunkin have created the first-ever Dunkin’ Walk-Thru at Harpoon Brewery. Open for one day only – Aug. 30, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. ET – the local pop-up experience will give fans a first taste of the new beers by ordering a pack to go.

As an added treat, at the Boston event, anyone who orders the new beers at the walk-thru will also receive a free Dunkin’ Harpoon IPA Donut filled with a Harpoon IPA jelly and topped with a candied malt crumble — made just for the occasion and the first Dunkin’ donut to be made with beer as an ingredient*. Attendees can also enjoy a cup of Dunkin’ coffee while waiting for their orders.

Harpoon Dunkin’ Pumpkin will be available on draft and in bottled 6-packs as well as in the new Harpoon Dunkin’ Dozen mix pack, which features three cans of each seasonal beer flavor. These limited releases will be available everywhere Harpoon is sold beginning in September.

Buffalo Wild Wings in the Boston area will also exclusively serve all four Harpoon x Dunkin’ beers on draft starting in October.

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ReserveBar Welcomes High-Profile Investors To Its Spirited Change Initiative Supporting Minority And Women-Owned Businesses

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Joel Whitaker

ReserveBar said it is committing more than $5million from now through 2024 to its Spirited Change Initiative (SCI), which provides consumer and trade exposure to minority and women-owned brands and businesses in the beverage alcohol industry.

Mary J. Blige, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kevin Durant, Rich Kleiman, Emmet Dennis and Jonathan McBride have joined SCI as investors committed to disrupting the industry. Kleiman, Dennis and McBride also make up ReserveBar’s Spirited Change advisory board, along with Ashaunna Ayars, CEO of The Ayars Agency; Ingrid Best, EVP of Global Head of Marketing at Combs Enterprises Spirits; Jim Clerkin, Chairman of ReserveBar and CEO & Founder of Demeter Spirits; Dia Simms, CEO of Lobos 1707 Tequila & Mezcal; ReserveBar’s CEO and Co-Founder, Lindsay Held; and Spirited Change Executive Director Jameel Spencer, CEO & Founder of Writeful Place.

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Coors Light To Offer $10,000 Grants To Latino Nonprofits

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Joel Whitaker

For the 15th consecutive year, the Coors Light Líderes program will help five Latino change makers empower their communities by awarding $10,000 grants for their nonprofit organization. Winners selected as “Líderes” will also receive access to the Change Makers Alumni Network. Nominations and applications are now open through September 21 at CoorsLightLideres.com.

For 15 years, the program has emboldened Latino trailblazers who, through their innovative leadership initiatives, have a transformational impact on the communities they serve, achieve personal and professional success, and serve as role models for the next generation of Latino leaders.

To apply, individuals can nominate others or themselves by filling out a simple form about the nominee’s impact in the community and the nonprofit organization they represent. Nominees must be of Hispanic or Latino descent, between the ages of 21 and 39 and actively associated with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that impacts the Latino community. Recipients will be announced Oct. 13 and honored at a winners’ celebration in March 2022.

Since Coors Light Líderes program launched in 2006, fourteen Latino nonprofit organizations have been awarded more than $350,000 in grants.

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Teneral Cellars Launches Healthy Women, Healthy World Wine Collection

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Joel Whitaker

Teneral Cellars, the only 100% women-owned and operated brand that sells strictly online and donates 10% of profits to women’s causes, launched its Healthy Women, Healthy World Collection.

The collection features three wines that bring attention to reproductive, heart and breast health issues that affect millions of women globally. With every three-pack sold, $10 will be donated to the Endometriosis Foundation of America (EndoFound).

One in eight women are diagnosed with breast cancer, and one in three of those will be metastatic. Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer of women, causing one in three  deaths of women each year. That’s about one death every minute. Furthermore, 1 in 10 women suffers with endometriosis, a disease that occurs when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus, the endometrium, is found outside of the uterus, where the tissue does not belong.

“These numbers are alarming to all of us and we must make our health a top priority,” said Jill Osur, Founder of Teneral Cellars. “When women are healthy, our communities are healthy.  “We are addressing the tough and necessary conversations needed to elevate women and inspire change, and using wine as a conduit for that change,” said Osur.

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Responsibility.org Launches Innovative Program to Increase College Student Intention to Change Drinking Behaviors

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Joel Whitaker

Responsibility.org launched a fully re-imagined, digital version of its award-winning free college program Alcohol101+.

Created in 2003 by Responsibility.org, the program was implemented on over 3,000 college and university campuses to educate students, especially those under the legal drinking age, on the dangers of binge drinking, mitigating risk and the importance of healthy decision-making. The new Alcohol101+ program will build on these objectives to reach today’s college students in an engaging and effective way.

The revamped program is tailored to students’ individual needs based upon their own experiences with and perceptions of alcohol. This aspect of the program ensures that it is relevant and thus more valuable to each student. Recognizing that today’s college students are digital natives, Responsibility.org, with the advice of experts in the college prevention landscape, created a highly interactive program designed to increase student awareness of the hazards of overconsumption and ultimately contribute to behavior change by decreasing binge drinking on college campuses.

Relying on theoretical models of behavior change, Responsibility.org has tailored the curriculum to be accessible and relevant to today’s college-aged students. Through highly interactive and quick-paced digital content, Alcohol101+ covers core alcohol education topics, including:

  • Bystander intervention skills
  • Education on the consequences and dangers of binge drinking
  • Blood alcohol content (BAC) and standard drink education
  • Alcohol’s impact on the developing brain
  • Low risk drinking strategies and mitigating risk

Responsibility.org is committed to measuring impact – college administrators using the program will have access to pre-and post-program data and a customizable dashboard with real-time metrics and analytics. While the students receive a personalized feedback report upon completion to help support responsible decision-making about alcohol.

“Our education team collaborated with a group of experts in the field of prevention on college campuses to design a program that colleges would not only want to implement, but that their students would be excited to use. Through Alcohol101+, we have demonstrated that alcohol education can be interactive and engaging while also being impactful and accessible,” said Chris R. Swonger, president/CEO of the Distilled Spirits Council (DISCUS) and Responsibility.org. “We’re thrilled that several colleges have already embraced this model for educating their students, and we’re excited to welcome more as we roll out the program.”

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Dry Creek Vineyard Begins Historic 50th Harvest

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Joel Whitaker

Congratulations to Dry Creek Vineyard which began its 50th harvest just one day after marking 49 years of family winemaking in Sonoma County, Calif.  This historic vintage was marked with the arrival of 10.35 tons of Sauvignon Blanc from one of the family’s estate vineyards.

The love of the Loire Valley led Founder David S. Stare to produce his inaugural 1972 Fumé Blanc, and the winery has continued to craft the varietal every harvest since. The 81-year-old Stare was in attendance at the crushpad of his family winery to sprinkle the original 1972 Fumé Blanc into the hopper for good luck for the 50th harvest.

Stare is widely known as the first to plant Sauvignon Blanc in Dry Creek Valley, against the advice of vineyard specialists. 50 years later, Sauvignon Blanc is the most planted white grape in Dry Creek Valley. Dry Creek Vineyard has proudly produced Sauvignon Blanc each year of its history and currently features four distinct Sauvignon Blanc bottlings in its portfolio.

Stare’s daughter, Kim Stare Wallace, is currently the President of Dry Creek Vineyard and continues to lead with a “no compromises” philosophy producing appellation-focused, terroir-driven, varietal-defining wines.

“Competition is at an all time high in our industry, so being true to our wines, our vineyards and the terroir of our region is more important than ever before,” said Stare Wallace. “Instead of getting sucked into the increasing corporatization of the industry, our family winery is bucking the trends and is an increasingly rare breed.”

“Our goal is to continue forward into the future as an iconic, family-owned, heritage brand – reflecting the true essence of Sonoma County,” she added.

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