Heineken has recently unveiled its new 330ml Cool Can, which makes it the first beer brand in South Africa available in a 330ml sleek can. It's also the first market in the world to launch a sleek can with this design...
South Africa’s draft liquor bill seeks to impose maximum discomfort on the liquor industry seemingly on the grounds that since liquor is evil, any attack on its producers and distributors is morally justifiable. Few, if any, of the proposals are practical, writes Michael Fridjohn, well-known...
Britain's national drink, black tea, is in serious decline as people turn to healthier herbal alternatives, according to new Mintel research.
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While Coca-Cola has long backed and promoted fitness and exercise, news that the world's largest producer of sugary beverages is funding a new scientific nonprofit organisation that blames obesity on lack of exercise, not on bad diets has generated a storm of coverage and criticism.
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A common treatment for poisonings and overdoses, raw activated charcoal — aka coal or carbon — has made an unlikely move into the US beverage spotlight. It's showing up at juice bars, and as a cocktail ingredient, and even as a RTD cold-pressed juice.
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Silicon valley entrepreneur and founder of the Bulletproof coffee brand, Dave Asprey, has expanded the concept with the launch of the ready-to-drink FATwater, an enhanced water line containing Bulletproof’s fat-based nutritional supplements.
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Coffee is a favourite way to start the day for many. But with that dose of java also comes the chance that it will require an extended trip to the bathroom. In this Reactions video, the American Chemical Society explains why coffee makes some people...
Diet Pepsi made without aspartame to hit shelves across the US Monday, marking the biggest change to the beverage in three decades.
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There's a seemingly endless variety of traditional hangover cures, but researchers at Australia's CSIRO now claim to have uncovered one that actually works.
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Almond Breeze, a dairy milk alternative made from almonds, has been launched in South Africa. The brand is American but it's being made locally by Good Hope International Beverages in Cape Town.
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KWV has joined the gin craze, launching its own super-premium London dry boutique gin. Dubbed, Cruxland, it is made from the high quality 100% grape spirits, infused with nine exotic botanicals, including rare Kalahari N'abbas (truffles).
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The world may be getting warmer, but it is not getting much wetter. It quaffed 249-billion litres of alcoholic drinks in 2014, a modest increase of one billion over the preceding year. The Economist takes a look at the changing geography of alcoholic drinks.
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Leading British supermarket retailer, Tesco, has announced that it is to remove all lunch box-sized drinks that contain added sugar from its shelves from September. The decision has sparked fury among consumers, but it could mark the start of far reaching industry-wide changes.
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New research, presented recently at the Cancer Association of South Africa's 'Research in Action Conference', showed that rooibos and honeybush both have anti-cancer properties that may be useful in the treatment of prostate and breast cancer.
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British spirits giant, Diageo, has announced it is restructuring its South African and Namibian ventures to go it alone in the two countries.
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The backlash against the story of the emerging middle class in Africa has begun.
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Carlsberg has launched a new Beer Beauty line, a line of male grooming products made from real Carlsberg beer. It is the latest in a series of recent innovations, including Burger King’s burger-scented perfume and Lidl’s “Eau de Grill”,...
Britain's doctors are calling for the government to impose a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened drinks to pay for subsidies on fruit and vegetables in an effort to slow the obesity epidemic.
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The news that Starbucks will be entering South Africa is positive - after all the Starbucks brand is known to be a quality coffee brand. Will the global brand be able to achieve sustainable success locally?
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Ongoing consumer concern about sugar consumption means there's a growing taste for non-sweet alternatives, says Mintel.
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