06 Jul How the colour of a glass bottle affects beer
Light triggers chemical reactions that make beer taste like skunk spray and onions... what packaging is best for optimal beer? Scientific American offers the answers...
27 Jun Analysing Gatorade Zero: iconic sports drink goes sugarless for the first time
Gatorade is ditching sugar. Gatorade Zero, a thirst quencher without sugar or carbs, has just hit stores around the US. The new drink is a tacit admission that the heyday of sugary sports drinks is winding down.
26 Jun From reviled to revered: halcyon days for SA’s Pinotage
Wine lovers around the world have a soft spot for it! The Pinotage market is booming! After decades in the wilderness, Pinotage is emerging as South Africa’s signature red grape....
26 Jun How coffee will look different in ten years
RaboResearch's new report “How Coffee Will Look Different in Ten Years: Consumer-Driven Changes Will Reshape the Coffee World”, looks a decade ahead at key changes that could stir up the coffee market.
26 Jun Self-heating drinks cans return – here’s how they work
A US technology firm is hoping to make a very old idea finally work by launching self-heating drinks cans. HeatGenie recently received US$6m to bring its can design to market in 2018, more than 15 years after Nestle abandoned a similar idea.
13 Jun Wine water opening new space in the near water category
Wine Water, an Israeli startup, is launching O.Vine, claimed as the "first spring water infusion with the spirit of wine".
12 Jun Home-grown soft drink brand takes on ‘Big Red’
Starting with five cows and one employee in 1980, Ken Clark has built two successful businesses employing more than 1 000 people; Crickley Dairy and Twizza.
09 Jun SA’s wine farmers are feeling the pressure
More than a third of wine-grape producers make a loss and the industry has about 25% fewer producers than a decade ago, according to Vinpro.
01 Jun The ‘so much more’ promise of Africa’s Big 7 expo
Africa’s premier food and beverage event is forecast to welcome more than 12,000 people to Johannesburg at the end of June as part of Africa Hospitality Week 2018.
31 May Vino without veritas: A US company is pioneering top-notch fake wine
Replica Wine makes cheaper copies of favourite American wines by analysing their chemistry. Often, even professional critics can't tell the difference. Is this heresy or just smart business?
31 May Coffee trends: Iced coffee accounts for one in five global coffee launches
According to latest research from Mintel Global New Products Database (GNPD), cold coffee has drinkers buzzing, as around one in five (19%) global new coffee launches was iced, ready-to-drink (RTD) in 2017, up from 16% in 2015.
30 May Coca-Cola launches its first alcoholic drink
Coca-Cola has released its first ever alcoholic drink, a lemon-flavoured alco-pop, which is available in Japan in three varieties.
30 May Nielsen unpacks major shifts in SA’s consumer landscape
The South African consumer landscape is set for a multitude of shifts in the next ten years, not least of which is the maturing of the local market with growth in the Generation X (35-49 year old) market segment set to outpace that in the Generation Y Millennial age group (26-34).
29 May Taking tea where it’s never been before
Millennials are turning the ancient beverage on its head — and crème brûlée and cream cheese toppings are just the beginning.
29 May Australia: Big move to full-cream milk and away from low-fat alternatives
Australians are ditching skim milk and other low-fat dairy options and in favour of regular, full-cream milk as consumer appetites shift towards wholefood, ‘clean-eating’ diets.
16 May Finally…. a take-out coffee cup that can be easily recycled
The war on plastic waste will be massively boosted in coffee-crazed Britain with the impending launch of the world’s first easy-to-recycle coffee cup, the Frugal Cup, the brainchild of Frugalpac.
16 May New head of Tetra Pak Southern Africa
Stefan Fageräng has taken over as MD of Tetra Pak Southern Africa in May, 2018 to replace former MD, John Strömblad.
16 May Diet soda: good or bad?
Diet soda has never been more controversial in the wake of the wars on both sugar and non-nutritive sweeteners. Here's a good review of the evidence by a reporter who understands the difference in quality of data from observational studies vs clinical trials.
15 May Stellenbosch’s iconic Warwick Wine Estate sold to US investors
Family-owned and run winery, Warwick Wine Estate, has been sold to San Francisco investment firm, Eileses Capital.
15 May AB InBev launches Budweiser in South Africa
Budweiser, one of the world’s most iconic beers is now being brewed in SA at SAB’s Rosslyn Brewery, outside of Pretoria. Enter our give-away - six cases of Bud on offer - now! See details below.