alcohol industry
Beverage production sector
The alcohol industry comprises businesses that produce, distribute, and sell alcoholic beverages—beer, wine, and spirits.
The term often appears in contexts involving regulation, public health debates, or marketing practices: The alcohol industry spent millions lobbying against warning labels.
Like "tobacco industry" or "pharmaceutical industry," it can carry critical undertones when discussing corporate influence on policy.
- ciderPressed apple beverage
- rumMolasses-based liquor
- whiskeyOak-aged grain spirit
- ginCotton-cleaning machine
- beerFermented grain drink
fermentation · distillation · acquisitions · mergers · retailing · taxation policies · consumer protection laws · brewing · craft beer · drinking culture · distribution · branding · tap · last call · open bar · age restrictions · minimum age · mead
- alcohol costshealthcare costs, economic burden, lost productivity, treatment costs, rehab costs
alcohol industrytemperance movement
Campaign against alcohol consumption
prohibition movement · teetotalism · MADD · Alcoholics Anonymous