Hello everyone! I hope that you are all doing well and hopefully are somewhere relaxing and enjoying the evening, perhaps with a wine for summer fare (with or without the fare). If wine is not your choice this evening, then it might be a cold beer. If it is a cold beer,…
Welcome to Episode 6 of the AboutBeverages.com Podcast! In this episode we answer a listener’s email about our previous tea podcast and discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to wine enclosures. Then we go right to the tasting room where we will be trying four different…
Good evening, everyone! We have just put the finishing touches on our listeners choice podcast, "Wines For Warm Weather Fare," and want you to know that it will be available for your listening pleasure on Tuesday, June 23rd. In case you would like to imbibe along with us, the wines that…
I know, I know another article about the benefits of red wine. Well this one had a little something that stuck out from all the rest. It has some interesting information about how sipping and savoring a glass of red wine may allow you to gain more of the health benefits. Click…
This is a story about an organization called Pizzas 4 Patriots who are dedicated to providing gifts from home to service men and women overseas. They will be sending pizzas to the troops for the upcoming holiday. In addition, MillerCoors will be sending 4,000 cases each of Miller Lite and…
The poll results for the "Listener's Choice" podcast are in and the topic of our next podcast will be "Wines for Warm Weather Fare." The complete final results are listed below. Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote. Just remember that even if your choice did not win, these are…
Sometimes the planets just align for great ideas to happen. Like the following article about a premium flavored vodka with just a touch of bacon. They even have a recipe section on their website to get your creative juices flowing. The first link is to an article about the new beverage…
An interesting article that adds an additional footnote to our episode 3 and 4 podcasts. It contains some more sipping tequila information along with an interesting legend about where the first blue agave plant grew. You should take notice that one of the people in the legend shares a name with…
Here is an interesting article about some research being done by a team led by Neil Kay at the Mayo Clinic. The team is working on killing leukamia cells with epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) an antioxidant found in green tea. The second link is just some general information about EGCG and green tea. …
Welcome to Episode 5 of the AboutBeverages.com Podcast! In this episode we read some listener email and talk about why sun tea may not be the safest way to brew tea. We then go to the tasting room where we will be trying four different teas in two different ways; hot and over…