Adam Bowie

🌍 Public Affairs in the global drinks industry.🥃
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[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

“We want to be the leader in premium whisky in France".
Beam Suntory France has officially begun operations:
https://t.co/N1rsXATgdz

[Scotch Whisky Association @ScotchWhiskySWA]

Our BIG map of #ScotchWhisky is back!

It lists all 1️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ operating distilleries across Scotland 🥃

Explore the map and download 👉 https://t.co/7hQ4yKMc9V

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

Enjoyed discussions with @AlanBrownSNP this morning on investing in #EastAyrshire and local biodiversity projects. Thanks, Alan! I can also now highly recommend excellent Cafe Courtyard on King St, #Kilmarnock for incredible coffee and cakes. Look forward to the next visit!

[Alan Brown @AlanBrownSNP]

Delighted to meet with Willie, Jim and Adam from Beam Suntory this morning. It was great to hear about their plans for new warehousing in East Ayrshire & the biodiversity work they do for peat land restoration.

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

@AlanBrownSNP It was great to discuss these projects and future investment in East Ayrshire with you Alan. We look forward to speaking with the local community about plans in the months ahead too.

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

@KarenEBetts @ScotchWhiskySWA @tradegovuk @Foodanddrinkfed Many congratulations Karen!

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

@jdaykin Enjoy Jerry. Looking forward to the bouncy folk-punk about European train travel!

[Martin Docherty-Hughes 🕊 @MartinJDocherty]

Great catch up last week with the @beamsuntory team at the one & only @Auchentoshan #distillery in Mountblow #Clydebank thanks to the team especially Neil for the refresh tour … plus hearing lots on sustainability in the whisky 🥃 industry @COP26 … check that #Sky .. #Scotland

[TheBourbonAlliance @BourbonAlliance]

🥃EU-U.S. have announced removal of retaliatory #tariffs on American Whiskey as part of their steel-aluminium dispute agreement. Now is the time for the UK to lift the #tariffs too.🥃 #freethespirit

[TheBourbonAlliance @BourbonAlliance]

Superb explainer by @spiritsbusiness on the challenges caused by unfair, outdated tariffs on US whiskey, and the brilliant opportunities cutting them will bring to the UK market.

https://t.co/kdT8q0fusq

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

@ScotchLaw @ScotchWhiskySWA Politics aside, that £5m a week 'cost of Brexit' release didn't acknowledge impact of pandemic on EU hospitality. Many vital export markets are driven by on-trade consumption, eg. Spain. And the SWA release acknowledges producers adjusting to post-Brexit trading arrangements,non?

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

@BastidonPauline Cheers! Experimenting with some Cognac serves this evening too. Enjoy your well deserved break Pauline.

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

Next level spirits cookery! Sea bass miso with Haku Vodka - The Origin and Art of Japanese Rice https://t.co/lBXOippHdL

[Master of Malt @MasterOfMalt]

Free the Spirit campaign is a collaboration between American distilling giants and the @BourbonAlliance, and aims to end the UK tariffs on American #whiskey which have been in place since 2018.

Read more here: https://t.co/8VOhuFmrQ0

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

Yes, but hitting spirits with tariffs will not fix the problem of global steel overcapacity. It just weakens prospects for US investment in the EU and brings harm to the hospitality sector as it recovers from the pandemic... Over to the negotiators now, the clock is ticking🤝

[spiritsEUROPE @spiritsEUROPE]

"We are happy to count on spiritsEUROPE not only to defend spirits exports but also on wider trade issues like the EU-US bilateral trade disputes". "Putting all disputes to an end will free time to deal with other challenges like WTO reform" #SpiritOfResilience

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

@BourbonAlliance goes in-depth with Mark Gillespie @whiskycast on how 3 years of the 🇬🇧 25% tariff on 🇺🇸 Bourbon whiskey has harmed British importers and UK hospitality. Listen from 3.08m https://t.co/22KrYrAPtz #FreeTheSpirit

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

Such support for @BourbonAlliance campaign clearly shows 3️⃣ years of 🇬🇧 government tariffs on 🇺🇸🥃 has achieved little other than harm to UK hospitality 🍹💸 +
UK whiskey fans searching for answers as to how a 25% tariff on Bourbon is helping to fix global steel overcapacity🤷‍♂️🔩

[The Spirits Business @spiritsbusiness]

Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark and Brown-Forman have joined a new campaign urging the UK government to remove the 25% tariff on American whiskey https://t.co/HeMdC8SZI2

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

@MichaelSarian I always play Frank Sinatra in the background when speaking to you too... 😂

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

¡Una noticia para celebrar! Es muy importante que en el futuro el sector agroalimentario no forme parte de estas disputas que no tiene nada que ver con sus productos o productores. 🇪🇺🤝🇺🇸

[ESPIRITUOSOS ESPAÑA @EspirituososESP]

La Comisión Europea, durante la Cumbre UE-EEUU celebrada hoy, ha anunciado la #suspensión, por un período de 5 años, de todos los #aranceles impuestos entre los EE.UU. y la UE, en el marco del conflicto Airbus/Boeing. ¡¡Espirituosos España celebra la noticia!!

[Adam Bowie @awbowie]

Fantastic news for distillers in Scotland, as well as American consumers + hospitality venues that serve #ScotchWhisky across the United States🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤝🇺🇸 #CallTimeOnTariffs

[Scotch Whisky Association @ScotchWhiskySWA]

🚨 BREAKING: UK and US agree to five year suspension of tariffs on #ScotchWhisky and other products resulting from Airbus-Boeing dispute.

Read our statement from @KarenEBetts 👇 https://t.co/FN0b5do8A5

[Miles Beale @WSTA_Miles]

Today, 🇬🇧 Secretary of State @trussliz will meet with her 🇺🇸 counterpart @AmbassadorTai.

@wstauk is calling on both sides to agree to suspend all tariffs related to Sec.232 steel and aluminium.