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http://www.awesomedrinks.com/fun/WebObjects/AwesomeDrinksM

AwesomeDrinks.com is a source for awesome alcoholic and non-alcoholic recipes - all beautifully photographed and reviewed by an expert.

http://www.apv.com/

APV Baker Inc. has a full line of breakfast cereals and snack equipment including rotary cookers, extruders, flaking and shredding roll mills, and the D.S.U. Thermalglide toaster dryer and 19-mm twine screw for research with lease/rental available to academics. It also has chemicals, foods and a variety of different divisions to food and beverage processing industry and selected industrial markets.

http://www.beverage-digest.com

Beverage Digest OnLine has information on the magazine, data, headlines and other information. Includes method of subscribing.

http://www.beveragehouse.com

Beverage House, inc. has blends of tea, coffee, and cappuccinos. Ordering information is available.

http://www.unlv.edu/Tourism/beverage.html

Beverage Links Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic from University of Las Vegas William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration. Includes information (wines, beers, spirits, water, tea, coffee, soft drinks, bars, glassware, misc, neutral beverages) on a variety of beverages and related links.

http://www.beveragemarketing.com/

Beverage Marketing Corporation has information on marketing of beverages.

http://www.beverageonline.com/

Beverage Online has information on line regarding equipment, products, and new concerns in the beverage industry.

http://www.drinksmix.net

Bloody Marys is a Guide to Bloody Mary Recipes, history of the drink and more.

http://www.brown-forman.com

Brown Forman has an annual report, key facts, job opportunities, historical highlights, earnings news, principal products and corporate news. This site has consumer durables (china crystal, pewter, stainless steel, silver, leather) and North American spirits, specialty and imported spirit items, and wines. Goods of interest to those in food service.

http://www.celestialseasonings.com/

Celestial Seasonings has a variety of beverage celestial season and product information. A beverage company.

http://www.cheatsheetpublishing.com/

The Cheat Sheets has over 600 bartender's cheatsheet recipes.

http://www.cocacola.com/

Coca Cola is primarily an interactive site with trading post, news, entertainment and information about the company.

http://www.csce.com/

Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange has maps, charts, data, market economics, historical data on this area. Includes dairy marketing reports as well. All originates from the New York Board of Exchange.

http://www.cooksnook.com/xtea.html

Cooksnook Tea House has a variety of teas, gifts, gourmet foods, oils and vinegars, coffee shop, kitchen gadgets, candies, sweet stuff, and cookbooks for purchase.

http://www.cott.com

Cott has information about the company, possible investors, communications, FAQs, legal stuff. Is a premium retailer brand beverage innovation

http://www.canadacoaster.com/

Custom Coasters is a premium beverage coaster manufacturer. Has a variety of coasters including bar, wine, restaurant and trade show coasters. Drink coasters are custom printed on premium European beer mat board.

http://www.dmeinternational.com/foodbev/default.html

DME Food/Beverage Industrial division has food and beverage industry and customized equipment design. Also has equipment for brewing , marine exhaust, biopharm, food and beverage industries.

http://www.Rocketpacks.de/

Drink - Rucksack is a drink dispenser as a backpack.

http://www.drinksplanet.com/

Drinks Planet has links to a variety of forums which include drinking planet, wine's planet, whisky's planet, beer's planet and homemade alcohol.

http://www.extremebartending.com/

Extreme Bartending is a comprehensive site for bartending. Includes, among many other items, flair bartending, customer service, bartending jobs, quotes and jokes, drink recipes, chat room and other information.

http://www.foodandbeveragejournal.com/

Food and Beverage Journal is a site for this journal that is for the food service professional.

http://www.foodcontact.com/

Food Contact has a variety of links to food and beverage exporters. FoodContact.com is developed specifically for you ç international buyers of food and beverage products- and is intended to provide a comprehensive directory of food and beverage exporters, manufacturers and suppliers around the world.

http://www.lfra.co.uk/

Food RA Leatherhead is an independent food research institute in Europe and provides food information to the international food and drinks industry. Contains information regarding legislation, industry links, databases and a variety of other pertinent information.

http://www.foodcom.com/foodcom/

FoodCom is the World Wide online information and communication center for the Food and Beverage Industry.

http://www.fooddude.com/

fooddude.com for those wishing to explore the packaged foods and beverage business.

http://www.foodlineweb.co.uk

FoodLineWeb is the premier intelligence resource for the international food and drinks industry

http://www.fortunebrands.com

Fortune Brands has a financial page, corporate data, basic facts, brand portfolio , distilled spirits, and other corporate information.

http://www.gatorade.com/

Gatorade is the sports drink site. This includes information, history, home page, interactive fun, and online store.

http://www.hansens.com/

Hansen's Natural markets a unique full line of high quality pasteurized juices and refreshing soft drinks made "The Natural Way" ... without preservatives, refined sugar, artificial flavors or colors, and minimal, if any, sodium.

http://www.highlandtrail.co.uk/

Highland Trails has information and discussions of drinkeries, including beverages.

http://www.iHobnob.com/iHobnobWebApp/

iHobnob food & Beverage Career Network provides an objective medium for food and beverage industry professionals to do exactly that - establish relationships, grow professionally, manage and enhance their career. It's an online community for food and beverage people, where its members can thrive together.

http://www.interbev.com/

International Beverage Industry is the culmination of an evolving global beverage market. includes what's new, exhibitors, conferences, international aspects.

http://www.islandoasis.com

Island Oasis has a variety of beverage mixes and blends.

http://www.liquoranddrink.com/

Liquor Drink has drink recipes, but it also has a directory of the liquors/cordials/mixers used to make up the recipes.Ý There is brand information, proof, categories, liquor reviews, etc.

http://www.mydrinkrecipes.com/

Mixed Drinks or MyDrink Recipes has drinks and plenty of popup windows to entertain you.

http://www.mottsinteractive.com

Mott's Interactive has ability to purchase from Mr & Mrs T, Rose's, Clamato, Hawaiian Punch and Mott's at the one web site.

http://www.angelfire.com/tn/traderz/dew.html

Mountain Dew has some history of mountain dew.

http://www.mysodas.com

My Sodas sells beverages with a personalized label.

http://www.nationalbartending.com

National Bartenders School offers license and certificate courses for professional Bartending careers and jobs. Located in San Francisco and Mountain View.

http://www.nbcfiz.com

National Beverage Corp.

http://www.net-chef.com

net-chef.com is a food and beverage management solution to assist in food cost control and profiting.

http://www.foodwine.com/digest/

Net Food ProVisions Online offers Web Site Creation and Consultation specifically for the Food & Beverage Industry. With over 30 years experience in the industry, we can help your company become an interactive presence on the World Wide Web.

http://www.pepsi.com/

Pepsi site is made of shockwave site. Has movies, music, games, sports, and more.

http://www.perrier.com

Perrier has surveys, information, restaurants, artwork and merchandise. This is an updated restaurant guide. This "beverage" related site.

http://www.flavorman.com

Pro-Liquitech, Inc. is a beverage site from start to finish. Has beverage categories, services, products, news, and links.

http://www.pg.com

Procter & Gamble Co.History: yes Annual: yes Product(s) Selling: Fats, beverages, misc Activities: yes

http://www.seagram.com

Pernod Richard has spirits and wine and entertainment. On the site is their 1998 Annual Report.

http://www.beveragemarketing.com/

Single-Serve New Age Fruit Beverages has information regarding the beverage industry. Great site -- it actually does what it says-- applies some marketing techniques.

http://snapple.com/

Snapple has the happens with snapple including information, products. An interactive site.

http://www.sunnyd.com/

Sunny D Concentration contains information and questions and answers regarding the beverage.

http://supercocktails.com

superCocktails is a collection of drink recipes: features many bartending articles and tips and a convenient cocktail search system.

http://www.todhunter.com/

Todhunter International, Inc. is a nationally recognized distiller, bottler of spirits, producer of wines, and manufacturer of fine food products. Its various divisions produce citrus-based brandy, distilled spirits, rum, and fortified wine used as ingredients in a variety of alcoholic beverages. It bottles coolers, prepared cocktails, fruit juices, flavored teas, and other beverages on a contract basis, and produces a line of both premium and popular price spirits.

http://food.oregonstate.edu/water/index.html

Water Page of Food Resource

http://food.oregonstate.edu/be/wine.html

Wine Page of Food Resource

Belesky,D.P. 2000February. Chicory roots out nutrients in soil. Resource 7(2):13.

Excerpts and Modification from article: Chicory is a perennial herb in the family Asteraceae that is edible, pale-leafed head used in salads. Documented chicory use in the United States can be traced to the alte 1700s when the plant was introduced to the country as a coffee additive or substitute.

Chicory roots contain large quantities of inulin, a polysaccharide alternative to sucrose, which is low in calories but provides fiber and nutritional value. The root's high carbohydrate concentrations can be used for ethanol production using direct fermentation. When grown under optimal conditions, root dry mass ranges from 9 to 13 tons per acre (10 to 15 metric tons per hectare) with readily fermentable carbohydrate comprising up to half its mass.

The chicory root carbohydrates are used as herbal remedies in some Asian countries to produce hepato-protective pharmaceuticals. The plant was considered a noxious weed in the eastern United States until an improved cultivar called Grasslands Puna, developed in New Zealand for leafiness, was introduced as a forage ressource in Pennsylavania in 1988.

Chicory facts

The chicory plant is tap-rooted, simlar to a carrot, and produces a rosette of basal leaves. It expresses a reproductive stem if the plant is allowed to grow undisturbed. Field-grown chicory has vegetative and reproductive components. The relative proportion of each is affected by canopy management so some plants remain vegetative while others differentiate and flower.

Chicory growth is highest during summer in the eastern United States, providing a resource that can improve available herbage in low-input grazing areas. .....

The benefits

Chicory offers producers a means to improve seasonal distrubtion of available herbage in livestock production. The plant is compatible with commonly grown pasture plants in the Appalachian region and toelrates seasonal weather condition variations.

Mineral nutrient accumuulation by chicory dictates a high level of input to sustain production, especially on soils with marginal fertility status. But the deep-rooted nature of the plant allows a producer to attenuate nutrient movement through the soil profile. Deep rooting is also beneficial to introduce organic matter, via senescing roots, deep in the soil profile, which affects soil quality.

Braddock, R.J. 1995. By-products of citrus fruit. Food Technology 49: 74.

Products from juice extraction residues have many functional uses in food and beverage processing.

Brasher,P. 2000March 15. Coke, pepsi juice up OJ sales with new varieties. Corvallis Gazette-Times , Corvallis OR C7.

WASHINGTON - The soda wars have come to breakfast. PepsiCo Inc. and the Coca-Cola Co. are using their marketing muscle to revolutionize what used to be a basic beverage - orange juice.

Cans of frozen OJ are out. They've been replaced by an expanding array of refrigerated varieties: With or without pulp. With or without calcium. With or without extra vitamin C. And now, variations like "Orange Passion," "Orange Banana," and "Orange Ruby Red with calcium."

Let by industry giants Tropicanan, which PepsiCo acquired in 1998, and Minute Maid, a unit of Coca--Cola, sales of refrigerated OJ have been soaring over the past two to three years, especially the calcium-fortified and high-pulp varieties. Sales of frozen concentrate are down 21 percent since 1997.

"This is... no longer your grandmother's orange juice," said John Sicher, editor of Beverage Digest, an industry publication.

Tropicana's Pure Premium orange juice last year became the fourth largest-selling brand in the grocery business after Coca-Cola Classic, Pepsi-Cola and Campbell's Soup. In 1993 Tropicana was 16th.

Sales of refrigerated orange juice, which inclues varieties that are made from concentrate and those that aren't, rose 7 percent between 1997 and 1999 to 632 million gallons.

Sales in the not-from-concentrate segment. Tropicana's speciality, were up more than 28 percent over the same period to 287 million gallons, according to A.C. Nielsen supermarket data. The growth in the calcium-fortified juices has been even more dramatic- their sales jumped 58-percent from 1998 to 1999 and now represent 20 percent of the refrigerated orange juice market.

Consumption of orange juice overall rose form 5.3 gallons per person in 1997 to 5.7 gallons last year.

"I drink this stuff like it's water," said Cathy Kissel, 57, of Falls Church, Va, as she surveyed the refrigerated juices in a supermarket recently.

There were 15 different varities of Tropicana and Minute Maid orange juice on display, including Tropicana's high-pulp, calcium-fortified "Grovestand" and Minute Maid's pulp-free "Orange Tangerine." At $3.39 to $3.40 a half gallon, the chilled costs at least a third more than the frozen concentrate.

Kissel is just the kind of consumer that the industry is targetting- aging baby bommers that are looking for extra calcium and don't want to fuss with frozen concentrate. The 55- to 64-year-old age group is projected to grow by 25 percent over the next five years.

"The baby boomer population is the biggest, wealthiest and now the most self-care oriented part of the population," said Audrey Rummele, a spokeswoman for Minute Maid, which first introduced calcium-fortified orange juice in 1987. "They're increasingly looking for ways to take care of themselves."

Orange juice and broccoli top the list of foods that consumers are trying to consume more often for disease prevention, ahead of fish and spinach, according to a survey done in late 1998 by Health Focus Inc., which tracks consumer trends for the food industry.

Cheney, R. H. 1947. The Biology And Economics Of The Beverage Industry. Economic Botany 1:243.

Cocoa, Plant, Cocoa Beverage, Cocoa Consumption, Cocoa Production, Coffee Beverage, Coffee Consumption, Coffee Production, Tea Beverage, Tea Beverage, Tea Consumption, Tea Production

Crocker, E. C.; Vucassovich, M. P. 1949. Non-Alcoholic Beverages. Food Technology 3:14

Nonalcoholic Beverage, Beverage

Dickins, D.; Fanelli, A. A. 1956. Practices And Preferences In Consumption Of Sweet Milk And 'Competing' Beverages. Journal Of Home Economics 48:114

Coffee, Milk, Tea, Soft Drink

Eagon, R. G.; Green, C. R. 1957. Effect Of Carbonated Beverages On Bacteria. Food Research 22:687

Carbonated Beverage, Bacteria, Salmonella Enteritidis, Escherichia Coli, Salmonella Typhosa, Micrococcus Pyogenes

Farber, I. 1959. Volatile reducing substances and the evolution of the aroma of coffee. Food Research 24: 72-78.

Ferren, W. P.; Shane, N. A. 1969. Potentiometric Determination Of Fluoride In Beverages By Means Of The Ion Selective Solid State Electrode. Journal Of Food Science 34:317

Potentiometer, Beverage Fluorid

Giovanni, M.E. and R.M. Pangborn. 1983. Measurement of taste intensity and degree of liking of beverages by graphic scales and magnitude estimation. Journal Food Science 48: 1175.

Grover, D. W. 1968. The Measurement And Character Of Carmel Colour. Journal Of Food Technology 3:311

Caramel, Spectral Extinctions, Lambert-Beer Law, Whiskey, Beer, Cola, C.I.E. System, Color

Havery, D.C. J.H. Hotchkiss, and T. Fazio. 1981. Nitrosamines in malt and malt beverages. Journal of Food Science 46:501.

Hollingsworth, P. 1995. Battle of the beverages. Food Technology 49: 28.

Honigmann, J. J. 1963. Dynamics Of Drinking In An Austrian Village. Ethnology 2:157

Beverage, Europe

Kallio, H. 1976. A Comparison Of Spectrophotometric And Polarographic Methods For The Determination Of Acetaldehyde And Furfural In Distilled Alcoholic Beverages. Journal Of Food Science 41:563

Polarography, Alcoholic Beverage

Lehmann, L.; Byrd, B. E. 1953. A Bacterium Responsible For A Musty Odor And Taste In Root Beer Food Research 18:76

Root Beer, Odor, Root Beer, Bacteria, Root Beer, Taste

Liebmann, A. J. 1953. Distilled Alcoholic Beverages. Journal Of Agricultural And Food Chemistry 1:1146

Alcoholic Beverage

Luttrell, W.R., L.S. Wei, A.I. Nelson, and M.P. Steinberg. 1981. Cooked flavor in sterile Illinois soybean beverage. Journal of Food Science 46:373.

Lyemaster, K.A. and T.G. Jenkins. 1993. Comparison of texel- and suffolk-sired crossbred lambs for survival, growth, and compositional traits. Journal of Animal Science 71(4):859.

Marier, J. R.; Rose, D. 1966. The Fluoride Content Of Some Foods And Beverages--A Brief Survey Using A Modified Zr-Spadns Method Journal Of Food Science 31:941

Beverage, Fluoride

Mccormick, R. D. 1978. Porous Saccharide Structure Provides Natural Route To Superior Dry Mixes, Beverages. Food Product Development 12(3):30

Saccharide

Merritt, M.C. and B.E. Proctor. 1959. Extraction rates for selected components of coffee brew. Food Research 24: 735-743.

Nykanen, L.; Puputti, E.; Suomalainen, H. 1968. Volatile Fatty Acids In Some Brands Of Whisky, Cognac And Rum. Journal Of Food Science 33:88

Whiskey, Fatty Acid, Cognac, Rum, Beverage

Palamidis, N.; Markakis, P. 1975. Stability Of Grape Anthocyanin In A Carbonated Beverage. Journal Of Food Science 40:1047

Grape, Anthocyanin, Carbonated Beverage

Powers, J. J.; Quinlan, M. C. 1974. Refining Of Methods For Subjective-And Objective Evaluation Of Flavor. Journal Of Agricultural And Food Chemistry 22:744

Blueberry-Whey Beverage, Acceptability, Blueberry-Whey Beverage, Odor, Blueberry-Whey Beverage, Flavor, Blueberry-Whey Beverage, Mouthfeel, Hedonic Scale, Canned Peach, Acceptability, Canned Peach, Odor, Canned Peach, Flavor,Canned Peach, Mouthfeel, Blueberry-Whey Beverage, Ph, Blueberry-Whey Beverage, Titratable Acid, Blueberry-Whey Beverage, Viscosity, Gas Liquid Chromatography

Prescott, S.C., R.L. Emerson and L.V. Peakes, Jr. 1937. The staling of coffee. Food Research 2: 1-19.

Punnett, P.W. 1042. Facts about caffeine, theobromine in foods. Food Industries 14: 52-53, 95.

Rambaut, R. C.; Bourland, C. T.; Heidelbaugh, N. D.; Huber, C. S.; Smith, M . C. 1972. Some Flow Properties Of Foods In Null Gravity. Food Technology 26(1):58

Null Gravity, Viscosity, Beverage, Condiment, Space Program, Packaging, Container, Canned Fruit, Sandwich Spread, Pudding, Entree

Roberts, E.A.H. 1958. Chemistry of tea manufacture. Journal Science Food Agriculture 9: 381-390.

Schaefer, J.; Timmer, R. 1970. Flavor Components In Cognac. Journal Of Food Science 35:10

Cognac, Flavor

Segall, S. and B.E. Proctor. 1959. The influence of high holding temperatures upon the components of coffee brew. Food Technology 13: 266-269.

Sen, N. P.; Dalpe, C. 1972. A Simple Thin-Layer Chromatographic Technique For The Semiquantitative Determination Of Volatile Nitrosamines In Alcoholic Beverages. Analyst 97:216

Nitrosamine, Alcoholic Beverage, Volatile Nitrosamine

Sheth, B. B. 1976. Viscosity Measurements And Interpretation Of Viscosity Data. Journal Of Texture Studies 7:157

Viscosity

Shewfelt, R. L.; Ahmed, E. M. 1977. Anthocyanin Extracted From Red Cabbage Shows Promise As Coloring For Dry Beverage Mixes. Food Product Development 11(4):52

Cabbage, Color, Anthocyanin, Cherry, Red No. 2, Strawberry, Blueberry, Flavonol, Ph, Ascorbic Acid

Shillinglaw, C. A.; Levine, M. 1943. Control Of Oxidative Flavors In Beverages Food Research 8:453

Beverage Oxidative Flavor

Sprague, E. 1925. Studies of coffee making by precise methods. Journal Home Economics 17: 206-211.

Stults, V. J.; Morgan, K. J.; Zabik, M. E. 1982. Children's And Teenagers' Beverage Consumption Patterns. School Food Service Research Review 6(1):20

Beverage Consumption

Pangborn, R. M.; Trabue, I. M.; Little, A. C. 1971. Analysis Of Coffee, Tea And Artificially Flavored Drinks Prepared From Mineralized Waters. Journal Of Food Science 36:355

Coffee, Tea, Artificially Flavored Drinks, Mineralized Water

Walters, D. B.; Chawla, I. D.; Rogers, D. W. 1968. Determination Of Alcohol Content In Beverages By Phase Titration. Journal Of Agricultural And Food Chemistry 16:259

Beverage, Alcohol

Wegner, E. S.; Jordan, R.; Hollender, H. A. 1953. Homogenized And Nonhomogenized Milk In The Preparation Of Selected Food Products. Journal Of Home Economics 45:589

Texture, Rennet Dessert, Flavor, Consistency, Vanilla Pudding, Butterscotch Pudding, Chocolate Pudding, Penetrometer, Triangle Test, Sedimentation, Cocoa Beverage, Homogenized Milk, Milk, Nonhomogenized Milk, Chocolate Milk, Palatability, Body

Updated: Wednesday, October 24, 2007.