Even a little bit of soda is a lot not good
It’s a rough time to be anybody who makes their money off soda and other sugary drinks, or to be a person who enjoys it,…
Carnival Cruise Line sends beer brewed on board into international waters
These days, it seems like you can get craft beer from pretty much anywhere. Now that craft beer is its segment of the…
Elementary school bans kombucha over alcohol content
Kombucha originated anywhere from 2,000 to 200 years ago—a long time, basically, although the drink is seeing a recent…
Study: Daily diet drinks linked to strokes, heart attacks, and early death
Bad news for those who’ve been chugging diet sodas under the belief that they’re healthier than regular sodas. CNN…
Adding bitters to mocktails was a Dryuary revelation
This is is it, everyone. One more week of Dryuary. This time Friday, many of us will be popping champagne or doing…
Taste testing Fentimans' weird, wonderful, botanical soft drinks
There’s about one week left of Dryuary, and if you’ve lasted this long, congratulations! Also, I feel you. I have been…
Original New York Seltzer kicks the coconut ass-can of LaCroix
As much as I love LaCroix, there is one flavor I’ve never been able to stomach. Even worse to me than the blue…
Pedialyte embraces hungover-adult market
Your significant other’s holiday party had an open bar. Your friends busted out a third bottle of prosecco. You…
Make ponche Navideño, a boozy holiday knockout
Holidays in Mexico are just another excuse for folks to get down with their bad selves. In my family, if you don’t eat…
Mountain Dew launches energy drink for gamers
I never graduated much past Sega Genesis and the gray-and-green Nintendo Game Boy, so Mountain Dew’s new line is not…
Study finds that drinking soda is really just the worst, don’t do it
The sugar fans among us may search for the benefits of our favorite snacks, like the protein in a peanut-butter cup or…
What’s the best mass-market hard cider?
Though it’s often lumped in with beer on store shelves and bar menus, cider is a category all its own. It’s actually…
Earn the reputation as a dinner party V.I.P. with these unexpected host gift ideas
Like store end-caps full of candy canes, it seems to start sooner and sooner every year: dinner party season. Once upon…
Mocktail ideas so good, you won’t even miss the alcohol
My Sober October is not exactly going as swimmingly as my Dryuary, probably because I haven’t been as public about it.…
Tab-aholics in a frenzy as the beverage disappears from some shelves
Tab was Coca-Cola’s first diet drink, released in 1963. Since then, diet drinks have made great strides—Coca-Cola…
Pop culture: A guide to Korean soft drinks
I’m not an avid soda or juice drinker, but I’ll be damned if I don’t love browsing the soft drink aisle of the Korean…
English great-grandmother drank 4 cans of Pepsi every day for 64 years
Well, here’s a new one (to me, at least): The Guardian reports today on “monophagy,” a condition in which a person eats…
The future is clear: Companies testing transparent beer, coffee in Japan
Apparently remembering Crystal Pepsi more fondly than the rest of us, several beverage companies are using Japan as a…
A blind taste test to determine the best lime seltzer
Other than oxygen, I’m pretty sure that the substance I mainly live off of is seltzer water. The first day I walked…
Last Call: Read the insane, drunken, wild history of Four Loko
If you are of a certain (millennial) age, you may remember Four Loko, a fruit-flavored 12-percent-alcohol malt beverage…