30 Oct Is a shroom boom due in functional drinks?
Food innovators believe medicinal mushrooms could be the next frontier of health. How do they plan to bring fungi to the masses?
30 Oct Wine’s intriguing new co-ferment trend
Meet the winemakers pairing grapes with other fruit and plants to create drinks that refuse to be classified....
29 Oct OBITUARY: Dietrich Mateschitz, founder of the Red Bull empire
Dietrich Mateschitz, the Austrian man who turned a caffeinated Thai energy drink into the multibillion-dollar Red Bull empire, died on Saturday October 24. He was 78.
18 Oct SA youth rank Rooibos among their favourite hot beverages
“Drinking Rooibos is cool”, say SA youth. That’s according to the recently released 2022 Sunday Times GenNext Survey, which is the leading barometer of what South African youth find on trend and aspirational.
17 Oct What’s plant milk, and how do you milk a plant?
More involved than milking a cow, making plant beverages requires a lot of science
15 Oct IFF debuts novel, industry-first citrus flavours for beverages
Global flavour giant, IFF has announced a breakthrough innovation: IFF NEO, a portfolio of natural flavours that deliver maximum citrus taste impact without using citrus oil, or any ingredient derived from the oil.
15 Oct Coca-Cola finally sends TaB to eternal rest
At age 59, the countdown to the demise of diet soft drink TaB has begun, two years after Coca-Cola first announced it would be canning the brand.
13 Oct What’s behind the troubling CO2 shortage in the US?
US brewers are fretting that a carbon dioxide shortage could force production cuts and price hikes. It's the latest threat to an industry that's been whipsawed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
12 Oct Beverage company created by two South Africans tops America’s financial charts
A company started by two Wits graduates has outperformed Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia to top the list of the best-performing stocks in the S&P 500 over the last 30 years.
29 Sep Trend setting? Tesco cuts multipack plastic for drinks
With most consumers now horrified by excess plastic packaging, UK supermarket giant Tesco has scrapped multipacks completely for its own label drinks.
29 Sep Pentawards 2022: Beverages shine in global packaging design excellence
The globe's best packaging designs were announced during the 2022 Pentawards gala ceremony held in London on 23 September.
29 Sep Ethical dairy brand Kalverliefde sells milk from farms that keep calves with cows
Faced with increasing, albeit still limited, competition from plant-based milks, it's interesting to see innovation in dairy milks. This one should please the heart...
28 Sep Castle Lite launches new campaign aimed at ‘Lite’ning up’ South Africa
SAB has tuned into the unfortunate South African zeitgeist of languishing - a sense of stagnation and emptiness - with a great new marketing campaign for Castle Lite.
27 Sep Global soda brand calls CO2Sustain ‘the best thing at drinktec’
With the European and North American CO2 shortage causing much grief for beverage makers, it's not surprising that the inventors of CO2Sustain can boast that "a global fizzy drinks brand calls CO2Sustain ‘the best thing at drinktec’".
27 Sep Not all instant coffee is created equal
Over the years the number of South African instant coffee drinkers has grown due to its convenience and time-saving advantages - with this sector projected to grow at a CAGR of 4.91% during the period of 2020-2025.
15 Sep Link between traditional beer, storage of maize and oesophageal cancer in the Eastern Cape revealed
Umqombothi traditional beer, coupled with a maize-based diet — where maize is not stored properly — may be the leading cause of oesophageal cancer in the Eastern Cape. This is according to the latest findings of researchers at Walter Sisulu University, East London.
14 Sep Competition Commission okays Heineken’s acquisition of Distell with strings attached
SA's Competition Commission has conditionally recommended the Competition Tribunal to approve Heineken’s proposed takeover of parts of Distell, the country's largest alcohol producer.
14 Sep Beer adds a lot of fizz to economy, says report
Wounded by the massive prohibition blows govt inflicted on the booze sector during the pandemic, the beer industry has commissioned a research study to prove just how important brewing is to the SA economy.
14 Sep Demand for non-alcoholic beverages in SA sees some recovery in 2021, says BMi Research
The majority of SA's non-alcoholic ready to drink (RTD) beverage sectors that were negatively impacted both by tougher than expected economic conditions in 2021 and the emergence of the Covid-19 variant Omicron are starting to see signs of recovery, according to info released by BMi Research.
14 Sep Tim Atkin MW says SA’s best wines ‘belong among the world’s elite’
Tim Atkin MW, who has released his tenth South Africa Report - with Chenin Blanc and Stellenbosch wines showing particularly well - contends the 2021 vintage could rank as one of the Cape’s best-ever vintages to date.