For small brewers around the world, bottling a beer is something that must typically be done manually on a very small scale or—with commercial→

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, we are living in the golden age of coffee lid design. The breakthrough lid, Solo Cup’s Traveler model, made its→

According to IndependentRetailer.com, it’s a common problem when you mix kids with cans of soda; they take a sip or two, then leave the→

Wired magazine reports that the Heatswell is an endothermic (heat-activated) coating for a paper coffee-cup. When that cup is filled with a tasty hot→

According to Entrepreneur.com, as owner of Moman Sales, a South Florida specialist in plastic flowers, what Matt Moman knows is fake flora. In June→

At first, the Freestyle seems like a futuristic novelty: The touchscreen fountain allows you to pick from dozens of Coke products–far more than you→

Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles looks like any other mom-n-pop grocery store when you enter, but a quick look around and you’ll→

Scientific American: This summer, how would you like to lean back in your lawn chair and toss back a brew made from what may→

A 7-year-old entrepreneur named Julie Murphy set up her lemonade stand at the monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. Julie had become enamored with→

On this day in 1900, American inventor, Joseph Friedman, was born. His most successful invention: the flexible drinking straw. While sitting in his younger→

Stuff Daily: Based in Washington DC, FreePaperCups.com is a marketing firm specializing in non–traditional advertising solutions. The firm specializes in handheld branding in the→

Entrepreneur magazine reports that a fellow home brewer e-mailed Eric Olson a photo of a crazy-looking pub on wheels in Europe. “I said, ‘Damn,→

According to Neatorama, Hero of Alexandria (10-70 CE) was a Greek engineer and mathematician who lived in Roman-ruled Egypt. He invented many gadgets and→

“Delicious! Refreshing! Exhilarating! Invigorating!” When John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1886, not even that adrenalized ad slogan could persuade customers to try it over→

Dick Seibert has lost money every year since he opened Knob Hall Winery in rural Maryland in 2006. Now he’s looking for the financing→

I has only four ingredients: alcohol, caffeine, guarana and taurine. It comes in a multitude of flavors, and it’s now under fire by critics.→

When Jim Koch wanted to start the Boston Beer Company more than 25 years ago, the hardest thing was getting someone to give him→

When Manjit Minhas was a child she dreamt of being a doctor. By high school her dreams started to shift towards petroleum engineering. One→

In today’s vidcast, Rich Whittle talks with Brent Paugh about his MargaritaTexas drink mix business.

Home beer-brewing kits may produce superlative results, but they also tend to take up superlative amounts of space. Therein lies the raison d’etre for→