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Ostheim in der Rhoen is a quiet German town in northern Bavaria. Picture-book pretty, with narrow, winding streets, it doesn't seem like a place where anything - let alone anything hip - ever happens. But this bucolic hamlet is the birthplace of Bionade, an all-natural soft drink that's become a national sensation (it more than tripled sales last year), one that its creators now hope to export worldwide...
Bionade's founders don't dream of global conquest for its own sake. They speak passionately about what they describe as the drink's deeper meaning. "Bionade is a totally idealistic product. Of course we want to make money, but honestly, this was an attempt to give people something better," says Bionade's ceo, Peter Kowalsky...
Knowing he couldn't compete with the beer conglomerates, he began to tinker with an idea: invent a healthy soft drink using beer-brewing principles. Says Leipold, "One of the goals was to make a drink for children that didn't have any artificial additives and that followed the purity requirements traditionally used to make beer." That meant a product with natural ingredients only: malt, water, sugar, fruit essences. No corn syrup, nothing artificial. And he'd use the same fermentation process he used to make beer - the trick would be leaving out the alcohol...
...would drink beer and talk about biological anthropology,” Kelly says, “She really tried to carve out a piece of time each week where she could try to be a professor...
...perils of marijuana use, the real reason for the double-standard is cultural, not rational or scientific. Alcohol is a deeply ingrained part of our culture. It has been around for thousands of years. It is indispensable to both blue-collar pastimes and polite society. Many of us even drink wine in church, believing that we are actually consuming—through a magical process known as “transubstantiation”—the mystical body of Christ. Marijuana does not enjoy the same totemic status. Largely because of the legacy of the sixties, it is viewed...