Beverages

Beverages

Quench your thirst for the latest beverage trends from organic wine and beer to garden-inspired cocktails.

Will sulfites in wine give you a headache in Tuscany?
Fri, Apr 05, 2013 4:00 PM by Robin Shreeves
Take a few minutes and read some of the week’s news and posts from the wine world.
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Starbucks introduces sustainable wood gift card
Wed, Apr 03, 2013 11:54 AM by Robin Shreeves
The special edition gift cards meet Forest Stewardship Council standards and work like most other Starbucks gift cards. Why are people paying extra for them when they can get them for face value at Starbucks?
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What is New Beer's Eve?
Tue, Apr 02, 2013 1:17 PM by Robin Shreeves
Every April 6, beer drinkers celebrate the anniversary of the fulfillment of one of FDR's campaign promises and the end of a long spell of 'near beer.'
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Southern homebrewers fight for the right to make their own beer
Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:32 AM by Stacie Boschma
DIY brewers are legally considered identical to moonshiners in Alabama, and beer hobbyists there are pushing to have their legal status changed. Mississippi brewers just got a reprieve.
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Modified E. coli bacteria die without coffee
Fri, Mar 29, 2013 10:51 AM by Melissa Breyer
Scientists have engineered a strain of caffeine-dependent Escherichia coli that could be used in tackling water pollution.
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George Washington's whiskey offered at Mount Vernon
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 9:12 AM by Michael d'Estries
Founding father's original recipe for rye whiskey inspires a limited run of 1,100 bottles selling for $95 each.
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Pay it forward, coffee-style
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 2:50 PM by Melissa Breyer
A goodwill initiative called 'suspended coffee' supplies a needy stranger with a cup of coffee, and it's gaining steam in Europe.
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6 cocktails with medicinal roots
Tue, Mar 26, 2013 2:18 PM by Enrique Gili
Although bitters and tonics have faded from medical shelves as elixirs, they live on in cocktails, grandfathered into drinks in splashes and dashes to create some of the most memorable and enduring cocktails imaginable.
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A coffee a day could keep liver disease at bay

Mon, Mar 25, 2013 2:09 PM by Lindsey Konkel, MyHealthNewsDaily

If you drink a lot of alcohol, drinking coffee might help safeguard your body against liver disease.
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Are energy drinks safer as 'beverages' than as 'supplements'?

Thu, Mar 21, 2013 11:00 AM by Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily

Some energy drink companies are starting to market their products as beverages and will include caffeine content on their labels.
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'Death Wish' coffee has twice the caffeine

Thu, Mar 21, 2013 9:55 AM

Video: Drinking the 'world's strongest cup of coffee' is like having 2 cups at once.
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Starbucks buys a dual-purpose coffee farm
Wed, Mar 20, 2013 12:39 PM by Robin Shreeves
The 600-acre coffee farm in Costa Rica will grow beans for the coffee house chain, but it will also be used to research leaf rust.
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The science behind beer goggles and alcohol-impaired movement

Tue, Mar 19, 2013 5:15 PM by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience

The law says don't drink and drive for a reason — alcohol interferes with the connections to your brain's visual and muscle control centers.
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Sugary drinks linked to 180,000 deaths worldwide

Tue, Mar 19, 2013 4:20 PM by Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily

Studies have shown that drinking sugar-sweetened beverages increases the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
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World's most expensive coffee beans plucked from elephant excrement
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 11:43 AM by Melissa Breyer
The quest for the most exclusive cup of coffee on the planet leads lavish indulgers to one of the most animalistic of behaviors: scavenging from feces.
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