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With the summer in full force, there’s nothing quite like enjoying fresh-from-the-vine fruits on your plate — and in your beverages.

After being out for the past few weeks on maternity leave, I am happy to be back at Beverage Industry. The birth of my first child definitely was a time for celebration in our family. However, I still was too exhausted to join in the festivities.

Whether it was alcohol or non-alcohol, the readers had a number of great products from which to choose in the Readers’ Choice New Product of Month poll for May.

It has been an incredibly busy, productive and exciting journey the past several weeks here at Beverage Industry magazine.

One year on his birthday, my brother’s friends brought him a 24-pack of Coca-Cola with candles stuck in the cardboard packaging.

As the weather heats up for summer, the lemonade market also is heating up to quench consumers' thirsts in new ways.

 As the summer approaches, it looks as though people are getting ready to relax in the sun with a cold cocktail. In Beverage Industry’s April New Products poll, readers voted Daily’s Cocktails as, by far, the top new product release on www.bevindustry.com throughout the month.  

As you might have known, our former Managing Editor Stephanie Cernivec was Beverage Industry’s resident wine enthusiast, always ready to delve deeper into the subject.

Recently I was reminiscing with one of my current co-workers about the monthly company enewsletter that the local media company I used to work for would distribute.