We wanted to use this week's slot to highlight some of the work the industry is doing to keep things ticking over and support one another as footfall, and sales, slow down and people stay indoors.
Ready-to-drink cocktails and gin mixers have made it into the Office for National Statistics' UK Inflation Basked for the first time.
After recent investments in aperitivo brand Italicus and Japanese gin brand Ki No Bi, French drinks group Pernod Ricard has bought the remaining stake it did not own in German gin brand Monkey 47.