Avelino C. Tuason

America first woke up and smelled the iced coffee in 1983, during a sweet, creamy and very cold experiment at Northwestern University. Soon thereafter, national brands, including Starbucks, 7-Eleven and Arby’s, began to develop their own refreshing blends, usually consisting of coffee, milk, crushed ice, flavoring, whipped cream and chocolate......

Some 20 years ago, a vibrant new beverage, the wine cooler, introduced a generation of barely legal drinkers to the taste of booze. This thirst quencher -- made popular by R. Stuart Bewley and Michael M. Crete, who, before going commercial with California Cooler, mixed wine, fruit juice and carbonated......

Illustration by TL Ary If you’re reading this in June — Happy National Iced Tea Month. For the uninformed majority, the Tea Council of the USA made this declaration in 1992. And why not celebrate? With last year’s $1.5 billion sales splash, ready-to-drink iced tea has grown nearly tenfold over......