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September 24, 2024 | 10:48 AM

Local vendors, distilleries excited by canned cocktail rule change

Appalachian Brewing Company has sent its first large-scale shipment to a Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board warehouse in Pittsburgh — and thanks to a recent change in state law, it won’t be the last.

By Julia Maruca/WESA

September 13, 2024 | 9:18 AM

‘What real freedom looks like’: Ready-to-drink cocktails arrive in stores as Pa. relaxes liquor laws

Ready-to-drink cocktails will be sold in grocery stores and gas stations starting Monday, but only before 11 p.m.

By Cory Sharber/WHYY

August 29, 2023 | 1:14 PM

Alcohol made from sunflower seeds?! A tour of a new distillery and educational center in Kane

By Sydney Roach/WPSU

February 28, 2022 | 5:16 AM

All Russian-made alcohol removed from Pennsylvania’s Fine Wine and Good Spirits stores

The decision comes after Gov. Tom Wolf urged the PLCB to remove the items as a show of solidarity to the people of Ukraine.

By Becky Metrick/PennLive

January 25, 2022 | 6:48 PM

A move to privatize all of Pennsylvania’s liquor sales draws familiar opponents

Dozens of Fine Wine and Good Spirits employees, backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, rallied against the move in Harrisburg Monday

By Sam Dunklau

December 8, 2021 | 10:08 AM

From glass bottles to botanicals, Pa. distillers spell out supply chain struggles

“If we would order a cap for a bottle, normally we would receive that material in two to three weeks. That [now] has been pushed out to almost three months.”

By Laura Benshoff/WHYY

May 2, 2020 | 11:29 AM

LCB expands access and increases order cap

Unaudited sales figures for curbside pickup last week totaled over 146-thousand orders for $10.99 million.

By Ed Arke/WITF

April 24, 2020 | 3:31 PM

Curbside liquor sales booming in PA

By Craig Rhodes/WITF

March 17, 2020 | 5:30 AM

Pennsylvania’s state-owned wine, liquor stores to close

All state s and licensee service centers are slated to close at 9:00 tonight.

By The Associated Press

February 18, 2020 | 8:49 AM

Some hoped letting groceries, mini-marts sell wine would kill Pa.’s state stores. It hasn’t

Total retail sales at the state liquor stores, at $1.872 billion for 2018-19, are up 3.1% since Gov. Tom Wolf and state House Speaker Mike Turzai famously toasted the wine privatization in 2016.

By Charles Thompson/PennLive

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