News: Biography Channel's Food Factory to Feature Reed's

I was sent this link by a coworker who saw the Biography Channel's Food Factory episode.  It looks great!  While I'm generally not a huge fan of Reed or Virgil's, I have nothing against the brand or companies themselves - good for them for making a good and consistent product!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/biography-channels-food-factory-feature-203200295.html

News: Fizzio annouced at Starbucks!

Starbucks announced this week that it will be fizzing up its own line of sodas.  There will be Lemon Ale, Spiced Root Beer and Golden Ginger Ale.  I like the thought that companies see the trend towards independent sodas.  Starbucks has long picked up on trends like this and for a long time carried the Izze line of sodas.  I'll give a shot on the Spiced Root Beer - maybe it will taste like Gales!

Read the press release:
http://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-expands-cold-beverage-line-up-with-new-fizzio-handcrafted-sodas-a

Birthday Tasting!

If you're looking for something interesting and different to do for your birthday this year, do what I did: Soda BBQ.  I had a bunch of friends over for a bar-b-que and brought out a couple of dozen sodas.  We tasted (and I rated) these over a couple of hours.  It was a lot of fun, especially to see the different facial expressions as people heard, smelled and tasted some of the more exotic drinks.
Pictured are Billy Jankowski and Nicholas Dezan as well as part of my torso.

Comikaze Soda!

I thought I had posted this already but upon walking into Comikaze this Summer, I discovered a Sun Drop booth.  They were great and spreading the word of Sun Drop to all.  They would like to make you think that they're an independent soda group, but they're owned by Dr. Pepper Snapple - pretty big names.
All the same, compared to Coca Cola, they're not so big.
Good times at the Comikaze!