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KonaRed Launches New Coffee Fruit Performance Powders

Delivered in Stick Pack form, 30 to a Tub, the formulas include non-GMO, high performance, patented ingredients that are focused on Energy, Brain Health and Immunity and will launch first in the state of Hawaii and then online at www.konared.com.

Tales of the Cocktail Announces Spirited Awards Winners

“2014 was an exceptionally fertile year for drink books and drink writing in general, with extremely difficult choices to make in each of the four writing categories,” said David Wondrich Writing Committee Chairman. “As far as the judges are concerned, each of the finalists is a true winner and would have dominated the field in an average year. It was humbling to have to choose among them.”

Buffalo Trace Distillery Opens New High Tech Distribution Center

Buffalo Trace Distillery has completed the construction of its 83,000 square foot revolutionary new distribution center, which uses satellite technology to store and retrieve pallets of finished goods. Buffalo Trace Distillery is believed to be the first spirits supplier to use this system, called an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS).

MGP Introduces Metze’s Select Limited Edition Indiana Straight Bourbon Whiskey

MGP’s Master Distiller Greg Metze has crafted only 6,000 hand-numbered bottles of this unique expression, which is the result of marrying three distinct straight bourbon whiskeys. The brand consists of 38% 2006 bourbon (21% rye), 3% 2006 bourbon (36% rye), and 59% 2008 bourbon (21% rye), all made by MGP.

UVM Responds to Botched Bottled Water Ban

The study, titled “The Unintended Consequences of Changes in Beverage Options and the Removal of Bottled Water on a University Campus,” discovered an 8 percent increase in all bottles and a 25 percent increase in bottles of sugary beverages shipped to the University of Vermont between the Spring of 2012 and Spring of 2013.

PureCircle Introduces Matrix Solutions Line of Stevia Ingredients

The PureCircle Matrix Solutions family includes new stevia ingredient Sigma-T, an ingredient with a clean sweetness profile, reduced astringency and bitterness and a sweet aftertaste that performs parity to sugar at mid-level sugar reductions.