Beer Still Down Low-Singles in On-premise, as Wine & Spirits trend up

Dear Client:Nielsen CGA released some on-premise numbers yesterday, covering the latest 52 weeks ending ended July 15.They mainly focused on spirits and wine trends, but that just underscored the fact that beer is still lagging bev alc growth trends."Spirits continue to grow and remain the top-performing mega category, up 3.0% in dollar sales and 1.8% in volume sales," per Nielsen. That's been driven by large categories, like vodka (+1.3%) and whiskey (+1.7%), as well as smaller sub-categories: tequila (+6.4%) and