Now I know you’re not supposed to pick out your beers based upon cute bottles, BUT it was really cute and I simply couldn’t help myself.  Cute bottle must mean delicious beer, right?  Well…maybe not.  The beer in question was St. Peter’s Organic English Ale.

I wondered why the bottle itself caught my eye.  When I checked out their website it stated that the bottle is replica of a 500ML oval medicine type bottle that dates back to the 1770′s.  Pretty fancy.  Now let’s talk about what you really want to know: what it tastes like!

I’m not a fan … Read the rest

There’s not a huge selection of organic sodas in my main grocery store but they had several varieties of the Santa Cruz bubbly beverages.  They sell them separately which is good and bad.  Good if I don’t like ‘em, I didn’t have to spend more money on soda I most likely won’t drink.  But bad if I do, ’cause then I have to make another errand run to get one item at the grocery store — which never happens.  The grocery store is like Wal-Mart, you have all the intentions of picking up one item but you usually walk out … Read the rest

Sometimes, nothing tastes better than a soda.  Truly.  But do I really want to dump 9 teaspoons of sugar into my body for about 20 minutes of bliss?  Not really.  Switch to diet soda you say?  Don’t get me started on how awful aspartame actually is for your mind and body.  Aspartame contains two amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine which is joined together by methyl alcohol.  It turns out that methyl alcohol is closely monitored by the EPA.  MA is damaging to your DNA.  Even small doses of it.  What’s a little bit if MA in your body, you … Read the rest