If you’re a vegan but can’t stand milk substitutes like soy, rice or coconut, then this man-made milk may be right for you. Scientists at San Francisco-based biotech start-up Muufri - (get it, moo free?) - have developed a formula to re-create cow milk: six proteins for structure and function and eight fatty acids for flavor and richness, according to Muufri’s website.

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Last summer, a dozen people, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, crowded into a living room in Aldan, Pennsylvania, a small working-class suburb outside of Philadelphia. They toggled back and forth between smartphones and tablets while they downed an energy drink called Verve. "Did you know Red Bull and Monster can stay on the shelf for more than four years?" one guest told another.

At its cafes, Blue Bottle might make one of the best iced-coffee drinks in America. But are artisan businesses doomed to fail when they try going mainstream?

Gerry Tosh of Highland Park walks you through a simple formula for whisky nosing and tasting. This is designed for the novice and will hopefully help people experience whisky more fully.

Our neighbors across the pond are heading stateside for their latest offering: Guinness Blonde American Lager. Guinness’ parent company Diageo teamed up with City Brewing Company — a contract brewery operating in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee – to craft the new beer made with Mosaic and Willamette American hops.

Oregon, Washington and Vermont filed suits Thursday against Living Essentials LLC and Innovation Ventures LLC, makers of the highly popular energy booster. Attorneys for the states want a permanent injunction against the parent companies’ misleading marketing and are seeking civil penalties.

No one ever really knows when they have had "one too many" but you may now at least have a chance to keep better track. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has created what they are calling the "cocktail content calculator" in an effort to let drinkers know just how much alcohol is in that drink they are about to gulp down.

What if Bruce Lee decided he wanted to be a bartender instead of being a martial artist?

In the central lobby of the Coca-Cola (KO) museum in Atlanta, a glass display case features all the types of carbonated drinks currently sold by the company. There’s the classic red can and its no-calorie iterations: Diet Coke and Coke Zero. Then there’s Sprite, Fresca, and the citrus rainbow that is Fanta. Over on the left is a small green can that most American visitors won’t recognize: Coca-Cola Life, a stevia-sweetened version of regular Coca-Cola.

Coca Cola is tasty and obviously, you can put it to many uses. But what happens when you boil it?

Let the author and bartender Rosie Schaap make you a custom summer cocktail.

Coca-Cola is dropping a controversial ingredient from its Powerade sports drink, after a similar move by PepsiCo's Gatorade last year. The ingredient, brominated vegetable oil, had been the target of a petition by a Mississippi teenager, who questioned why it was being used in a drink marketed toward health-conscious athletes. The petition on Change.org noted that the ingredient is linked to a flame retardant and is not approved for use in Japan or the European Union.

Aspartame has been on the debate block for years as time and time again independent research reveals dangers associated with aspartame consumption, while industry funded research reveals no dangers. In a new study observing over 60,000 women, diet drinks containing aspartame consumed at 2 or more per day increased the risk of heart related illness by 50%.

A new brand of powdered alcohol - designed to be mixed into a drink or sprinkled over food - has been signed off by the US government and will be available in autumn of this year

The contour of the classic Coca-Cola glass bottle is absolutely iconic. It was created in 1915 by a glass manufacturer in Indiana, and chosen by Coca-Cola because its distinctive curves wouldn’t be confused with competitors. The bottle was not, however, designed specifically for Coca-Cola's flavor profile, and today the soda maker has set out to remedy that oversight.

So you want to keep an eye on the old waistline, but you hate diets. Join the club. Rather than give you recipes for “yummy” quinoa-kelp granola, we suggest following these simple rules, rituals, and metabolic sleights of hand. You'll eat better, eat less, and burn calories all day long, even while checking your e-mail

From Prohibition, Paris, and something called a "Bucket of Blood," to Hemingway, and your hangover

PepsiCo announced on Monday that its failed clear cola, known as Crystal Pepsi, would be making a comeback in early 2014 as a limited edition re-release. The soda was an early 90s flop, making now the perfect time to bring it back from the dead Crystal Pepsi was originally marketed as a caffeine-free “clear alternative” to normal brown colas, casting the drink’s clear color as healthy and pure. The drink’s original marketing slogan: “You’ve never seen a taste like this”.

South Koreans drink 13.7 shots of liquor per week on average, which is the most in the world. And of 44 other countries analyzed by Euromonitor, none comes anywhere close. The Russians, the second biggest in Euromonitor’s sample, down 6.3 shots per week; Filipinos drink roughly 5.4 shots per week; and Americans consume only 3.3.