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Drink Location, What Is Hot! »

[19 Dec 2007 | No Comment | ]

This sexy swim star will continue swimming, but our Australian Whales will not, help us stop the Japanese killing our whales.
visit www.ozbevnet.com
 

 
 
 

What Is Cold! »

[17 Dec 2007 | No Comment | ]

420 Below Spring Water
 
Confused, so are the tongues of the Decanter magazine judging panel. They ranked tap water (Thames river) number three out of 25 of the most expensive bottled water brand names.

Via: theamblerfamily.com
 
Below the tap water sat New Zealand’s 420 Volcanic Spring Water. The same water that has struck gold on the world stage winning two top awards at the prestigious bottledwaterworld design awards in Italy.
The river water also outranked  Evian, Bling H20 and Fiji.
 

Fancy pricing for marketing psychology.

420 Volcanic Spring Water costs around US$43 a bottle.
 
 
Unfortunately no Australian …

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[17 Dec 2007 | No Comment | ]

Australian Boutique Beer
Stumbled across a beer blog by an Australian who is on a journey of reviewing beers produced in boutique breweries.
I just wished more Aussies reviewed the boutique non alcoholic beverages, it would spice up my world.

CASCADE FIRST HARVEST BEER
"Cascade First Harvest is the only brew of any kind in Australia brewed using fresh green hops. Once a year, at the first harvest of hops in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley, we hand select new hop varieties to brew a single batch of super fresh, super premium beer. Within hours of …

A Quick Drink Review!, Sex Drinks »

[8 Dec 2007 | No Comment | ]

Got the chance to sample this new entrant to the Australian market. I was reflecting on how may new products were launched in the USA (sigh), something like a thousand NEW non-alcoholic beverages are introduced. So if the population of the USA is 301,139,947 (July 2007 est.), then the launch rate for Australia should be like 70 new launches a year. The theory looks good on paper but the reality is another story in another post..
Will we ever see the landscape change from Coca Cola, Pepsi and Schewppes? I doubt …

Coke Watch, Not So Famous Quotes »

[8 Dec 2007 | No Comment | ]

"The coca leaf is legal for Coca-Cola and illegal for medicinal purposes in our country and in the whole world,"
Bolivian President Evo Morales told the U.N. General Assembly last year.