I was concerned less with my choice and range of beverages than with the little paper strips in the medicine cabinet of the bathroom off my parents' bedroom.
Drip by drip, China is home to an increasingly vertiginous range of beverages intended, we are told, to express its deepest national instincts.
(Back in Conwy, Anna's Tea Rooms at 9 Castle Street has an excellent range of beverages and food, and waitress service for those too enfeebled to stand).
In less good news for dentists, Coca-Cola says it sells 1.9bn units of its huge range of beverages every single day around the world, although that figure also includes its fruit juice and water brands.
We've made a wider range of beverages available to school students over the past decade, including bottled water, 100percentt juice, sports drinks, diet drinks and low-fat milk products.
They are the creations of recovering alcoholic Peter Spanton, former owner of trendy drinking den Vic Naylor's in Clerkenwell, who has created an eponymous range of beverages to cater for all types of teetotaller.
The Amcor Rigid Plastics segment manufactures rigid plastic containers from various materials for a broad range of predominantly beverage and food products, including carbonated soft drinks, water, juices, sports drinks, milk-based beverages, spirits and beer, sauces, dressings, spreads and personal care items and plastic caps for a wide variety of applications.
In particular, suggests the estate, Duke University is highly unlikely to ever market its own range of alcoholic beverages.
That impression is slightly spoiled by the presence of two Pepsi-branded refrigerators stocking a range of soft beverages, but – just as in Noah's day – people do get thirsty.
The company's taken to Kickstarter with the Pico U, a new machine that's capable of brewing up a pretty broad range of different beverages.
