Looking for new sources of revenue, hotels are following the lead of restaurants and bars in offering menus with creative cocktails and exotic nonalcoholic drinks.

A small but growing number of brewers, beer experts and importers are turning toward well-made low-alcohol beers.

Bartenders’ obsession with making better and more creative cocktails has trickled down to their sober sisters, the mocktail, or nonalcoholic cocktail.

Some people contend the artificial sweeteners in diet soda speed the absorption of alcohol.

There is still nothing that resembles a cold Manhattan Special, a thick and fizzy blend of espresso, seltzer and pure cane sugar, but after 113 years the soda seems to be caught between two worlds.

Recent studies have linked a taste for energy drinks with risk taking in teenagers and young adults.

Vignette Wine Country Sodas has introduced a rosé sparkling drink whose sweetness is restrained, but could still thrill a youngster.

Vignette Wine Country Sodas has introduced a rosé sparkling drink whose sweetness is restrained, but could still thrill a youngster.