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New Ciders from Angry Orchard

The cider makers at the Angry Orchard Cider Company have been hard at work on a new project – The Cider House Collection.

April 26, 2013

Angry Orchard Iceman, inspired by traditional Quebec ice ciders, and Angry Orchard Strawman, a farmhouse cider, are the result of experimentation with apple varieties, wood-aging techniques and fermentation methods.

Soft Drinks and Diabetes Risk

Regularly drinking just one sugar-packed soft drink raises the danger of suffering from the condition by 22%.

April 26, 2013

Furthermore, the risk rises with each drink; every extra can increases the danger by more than a fifth.

Coffee and Cancer Treatment

Coffee may actually help to prevent breast cancer from relapsing in women taking the drug Tamoxifen.

April 26, 2013

Patients who took the pill Tamoxifen along with two or more cups of coffee daily, reported less than half the rate of cancer recurrence compared to those who took the pill but drank only one cup or less.

New COO at Autocrat

Autocrat LCC has announced the promotion of Stephen M. Olyha from vice president sales to chief operating officer (COO).

April 26, 2013

Olyha brings to the company over 25 years professional experience across multiple business environments.

Caffeine and Cognition

A recent study has added new evidence to caffeine's effect on cognitive performance in children and teens.

April 25, 2013

A total of of 96 children and adolescents were given caffeine or placebo and then put through memory tests, reaction time tests, and color-word tasks.

Going Global--Beverages

Green coffee extract makes its way into Canada, while other countries around the world see their own takes on more functional drinks.

April 25, 2013

Starbucks is taking its RTD sparkling green coffee energy beverage, Refreshers, into Canada.

Alcohol Beverage Sales Rise

A sense of a stabilized economy pushed the beverage alcohol industry in a positive direction in 2012.

April 23, 2013

The beer industry posted its first increase in volume since 2008 to bring the industry to 2.8 billion 2.25-gallon cases.

Top CPG Companies

A new study has identified the top-performing companies in the U.S. consumer-packaged-goods industry.

April 22, 2013

Among large companies, the top three performers were Lorillard, the Hershey Company, and Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Expanding Mike's

Mike's Hard Lemonade Co. is rolling out entries into new categories, beer and cider.

April 19, 2013

The additions include a shandy hard lemonade and lager, an apple cider, four frozen beverage options and a new blood orange variety of Mike's Hard.

The Taste

A new study finds that just the taste of beer alone -- even without any intoxicating effect from the alcohol -- can be enough to trigger alcohol cravings.

April 19, 2013

The dopamine effect was stronger for men who had a family history of alcoholism.