Food & Beverage

Food

 Australian Food News
Covers world food issues as well as Australia.

Food Marketing Institute
From government regulations to supermarket facts and figures, this site offers tons of free info.

Gallup: Nutrition & Food Data

Gourmet Retailer

Baking and Bakery
Baking industry trends and best practices.

National Grocers Association
Info and issues for independent retailers and wholesalers.

Supermarket News

Beverage

Industry Resources

Beverage Media Group
Articles about beer, wine and alcohol. 

Gallup: Alcohol & Drinking Data

Coffee & Tea

Coffee Drinking Stats (Statistic Brain)

Badgett's Coffee eJournal
Online journal/blog about coffee brewing, buying, and home roasting, with links to outside stories. No media kit. A few useful links to outside coffee-related stories. Not comprehensive and somewhat dated. 

Coffee Explorer 
Features new coffee products, news, exhibitions, fairs, coffee education programs, and coffee buying guide.

Coffee Talk Magazine
Coffee business.

Coffee Universe 
Coffee information and resource site for specialty coffee professionals, start-up businesses, baristas, or people passionate about coffee. 

Coffee-business.net 
A good list of coffee pubs. 

CoffeeGeek 
Community of coffee and espresso lovers -- hang out, read, debate, write, or even ponder the finer aspects of coffee and espresso. Offers reviews of coffee appliances, news, tips, and articles. 

CoffeeNetwork 
In-depth commentary from the leading experts, breaking news, key weather information, market prices and charting. 

CoffeeResearch
From bean to machine, covers topics ranging from coffee preparation and espresso brewing to more advanced subjects such as coffee chemistry and agriculture.

Fresh Cup 
Monthly columns written by successful professionals offer business advice and marketing tips. Features articles on issues, such as how to survive as an independent retailer, how to make sense of sustainable coffee and tea, or how to open a drive-thru coffee operation. Provides specialty coffee and tea professionals with insight into "the trends, ideas, products, and people that shape their world." 

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Claims that they are the international voice of the tea and coffee industries since 1901. It's an online version of a well-known and respected publication. 

Tea Experience 
Discover tea from dozens of countries ranging from Europe to Asia, Africa to Indonesia. 

Tea Muse 
Online tea magazine celebrating the history, enjoyment, and variety of tea in words, pictures and brief videos.

Wine

Academy of Wine Business (PDF)Paper on How Consumers Choose Where to Buy Wine

Gallup (search for "wine" and also view the drinking poll at their site)

My Local Wine Store (article: My Local Wine Store, 2011)
This blogger specializes in online wine sales. Although the article isn't very scientific, it's a good discussion about the psychographics of wine buyers.

Retailing Means Retooling: Smart Wine Merchants are Not Standing Pat (article: BevSites, 2011)

Silicon Valley Bank Insights: Wine Division
Regularly publish reports about the wine industry.

Stonebridge Research
Several free reports on the wine industry.

Wine Business Monthly
Excellent data source about buyer behavior. Register for free to read the articles.

Wine Institute
Statistics from the largest advocacy and public policy association for California wine.
French Wine
by FFunction. Check out our data visualization blog.