A new pop-up bar in London makes imbibing easier than ever. Created by “culinary wizards” Bompas & Parr, the installation features a room filled with a gin and tonic mist that gives guests that boozy buzz with a few deep breaths.
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After 18 months or so at the helm, Distell's CEO, Richard Rushton, ex top executive at SABMiller, has clearly brought new verve to SA's biggest wine and spirits producer, shaking out encouraging growth even in SA's moribund economy. Distell released its 2015 annual results this...
In just over three years, Suja has gone from a small home-delivery juice company to one of the US’s leading organic, cold-pressed juice brands. Now, thanks to a minority investment by The Coca-Cola Company, the San Diego-based company is a step closer...
The South African wine industry will put its best foot forward this September via a landmark new trade fair, CAPE WINE 2015, to be helpd at the CTICC and which is likely to draw substantial local and international interest.
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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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