Recently featured on Shark Tank India, Moonshine is Asia and India’s first meadery. They constantly experiment with ingredients to create different kinds of handcrafted, small batch, gluten-free meads using natural honey and unique ingredients.

We first came across Moonshine’s delicious meads at a Beatmap party in Mumbai in 2018, and it was love at first sip. Moonshine soon became the team’s alcoholic beverage of choice. So fond were we of the brand, we took it upon ourselves to facilitate an online brand collaboration between Beatmap and Moonshine in 2019.

A year down the line, at the peak of the pandemic, the brand got in touch with us with a goal to increase sales and awareness via online platforms. We were, of course, delighted to associate with Moonshine – a brand we had long admired – and excited by the challenge of figuring out workarounds for India’s strict laws against advertising alcoholic beverages.

To help meet the brand’s goals, we ran targeted ads to increase brand awareness, which resulted in significant online as well as offline sales in both established and new locations.
In the very first month of our association, we managed to double Moonshine’s online sales with 10x ROAS. We matched and exceeded the brand’s previous month’s results within the first 10 days at half the ad spend. We also reduced CPAs by 40% to achieve an ROAS of 7 for online deliveries.

It was an interesting time to be marketing an alcohol brand, given that state governments across the country had, till recently, forced liquor shops to shut, and restricted operation of bars and restaurants. Several states had just made it legal to deliver alcohol to consumers’ homes, and that's the opportunity Moonshine was hoping to make the most of.

We’ve continued to enjoy a rewarding association with Moonshine over the past couple of pandemic years against a landscape of an evolving alcobev industry, shifting consumer habits, and intermittent government prohibitions on bars and restaurants and the sale of alcohol.