These findings are important and suggest that caution should be exercised when sipping popular sports beverages over long periods of time," said AGD spokesperson and president-elect Bruce DeGinder, DDS, MAGD. "We recommend altering or limiting the intake of soda and sports drinks and choosing water or milk instead, to preserve tooth enamel and ultimately protect teeth from decay."
his is pretty much the only store in Fresno with a good beer selection so good or bad it must suffice. They have about three 30 foot rows of beer. One domestic only row, one import only row and one row that is half and half. They only get about 8 or 9 of the beers on BA's to 100 list but when they get a sought after beer, like the Abyss, it will usually sit on the shelf for a long time. They have a decent selection of Belgians and a pretty good selection of German beers as well. I am pretty disapointed in their domestic selection though. Famous beer like Dogfish Head 90 and 60 minute, Pliny the Elder and many more are simply never there. In their place are a bunch of mediocre beers that nobody had ever heard of. If you live in Fresno this is all that you have so it will have to do.
This is pretty much the only store in Fresno with a good beer selection so good or bad it must suffice. They have about three 30 foot rows of beer. One domestic only row, one import only row and one row that is half and half. They only get about 8 or 9 of the beers on BA's to 100 list but when they get a sought after beer, like the Abyss, it will usually sit on the shelf for a long time. They have a decent selection of Belgians and a pretty good selection of German beers as well. I am pretty disapointed in their domestic selection though. Famous beer like Dogfish Head 90 and 60 minute, Pliny the Elder and many more are simply never there. In their place are a bunch of mediocre beers that nobody had ever heard of. If you live in Fresno this is all that you have so it will have to do.
Sorry to say Jim, but $15 for a 6pk of Ruination is the same thing I pay here at the SLO BevMo. It is what it is.
According to the cashier at Old Doc's, Fresno is "a no-man's land in terms of craft beer distribution." It sucks, however BevMo is somewhat of an oasis. Pretty good selection of English and California craft brews. Better than the BevMo I visited in Gilroy, but not quite as good as the BevMo in San Luis Obispo.
I must say that the Fresno location has a pretty good selection of Rogue ales. I've seen Chocolate Stout, Shakespeare Stout, Old Crustacean, IIPA, Oatmeal Stout, Kell's Irish Style Lager, and others. The Fresno BevMo is improving their selection as well. Just went in yesterday (12/17/08) and noticed a rather large offering from Avery, Lagunitas (just got in Imperial Red), Coastal Fog, and Deschutes (they had Hop Trip, which I've never seen before). While the selection is still smaller than the SLO BevMo, the quality of the selection is definitely improving.
In terms of quality, I definitely saw several dusty six packs and bombers sitting out. One of which was 2007 Alaskan Smoked Porter (check the date on this review). It's the only place I've seen the stuff, but the lighting and lack of refrigeration make me wonder. I bought a six pack of Nimbus Pale Ale from here and the head erupted when I poured it (read our review if you wish). Hopefully this was just a result of the car ride back to SLO, but the six pack was incredibly dusty when i bought it. EDIT: I've learned that Nimbus has had problems with infected yeast. It seems to fit my description of 'exploding head'.
BevMo is a must stop if you're in Fresno. Sorry, but it doesn't get any better. I look for new stops around Fresno every time I go back. (Tried out Full Circle Brewing Company this past trip, which was definitely interesting...)
this place isn't great, but it's all we have here save for a couple of pubs and microbreweries scattered through town and the rest of our county/valley.
i guess in terms of quality everything is just fine. i've never bought any bogus products here.
service is okay in terms of them being nice while you're checking out but the staff knows absolutely nothing about beer for the most part, a couple of them will look at your selections and tell you they liked something you've tried but that's about it.
selection is average even by bevmo standards from what i understand. there's not very much of a rotation of products, the staples are always there but it seems they just reorder the stuff no one really buys after it finally sells after months of sitting there.
as with all good beer, you're going to pay for it. i rate this a 3 on the price because i can go across the street to world market and get some of the same products for a significaly cheaper price (chimay grand reserve is 12 at bevmo, 9 at world market)
As with every BevMo I have been to, the quality is good. The beer is not usually past its prime. They dont cary too many beers that sit on the shelf for too long, so quality is not usually an issue.
Also as with every BevMo I have ever been to, the service is decent. The employees are courtious, and have some knowledge in beer. I have never been to a BevMo and been overly inpressed with the staffs beer knowledge. I mention certain beers from San Diego, from pretty popular Southern California breweries, and the staff looks at me like I am speaking a different language.
The selection at this BevMo might be the worst one I have ever seen. There was one short row with imports on both sides. The usual German and Belgian selection. Nothing outstanding. The local craft section is only one side plus a short row of coolers. Everything I saw that I was interested in was out, but that may not be the norm, I dont know since it was my first time to this store.
Overall: Moving to Lemoore from San Diego sucks. The beer selection at bars, and stores is awfull. I hoped that this BevMo would be a place to buy the stuff I like. I can say that it has one of the best selections I have found so far, but I am upset with how little beer is available here.
What does it mean to have a Conscious Kitchen? It's a little different for every person, but at its heart, it means knowing where your food comes from, what it is, and how good it is (or isn't) for you and for the environment. It also encompasses the energy it takes to cook, what you're cooking on and storing food in, and even how you clean up and handle waste.
We all know we need to be eating better foods – local, organic, local and organic, humanely raised meat, wild and well-caught fish, packaged foods containing five pronounceable ingredients or less – but they're not always so easy to find. Or it's not always so easy to motivate to find them. Think of this like you think of New Year's resolutions. Choose your own personal goal – make it attainable for better success – and then together we'll methodically get you there. Keep in mind that any conscious steps are better than no conscious steps – 10 percent is better than no percent.
1. We are water. Literally. So we need to be drinking a fair amount of it daily. I say in The Conscious Kitchen what many in the environmental movement – including writers on this website – say: drink tap water in reusable bottles. Unless there is something very wrong with your municipal water or you know your well water is contaminated, there is no reason to drink bottled water. Bottled water is a farce. It usually is the very municipal water you think you're avoiding by buying tap. So you're spending several dollars on something that is free – and less regulated than municipal water, I might add. A total rip off. And then there are all of the eco-implications and repercussions of the actual bottles. Think of the energy used to make those bottles, fill them with water, and then transport them all around. Sure, most places recycle the plastic most water bottles come in (PET #1) but many of those bottles wind up in the trash or in the gutter, not in the recycling bin. And they take 1,000 years to break down in a landfill. Spending money on something that is free and then drinking out of virgin plastic for maybe an hour that will then sit in a landfill for 1,000 years doesn't sound like good common conscious sense to me. So I don't do it.
I drink filtered NYC tap water (the water itself is good, but there could be lead coming out of my ancient building pipes so I choose to run it through an activated carbon filter) out of glass at home, and from a stainless steel bottle on the go. I avoid paying for what is free, and I avoid plastic altogether. For more information on choosing water filters and more on what's wrong with bottled water, see Chapter 6 of The Conscious Kitchen.
2. Everything else is a pretty huge category. Think about what you drink over the course of a day. Green the items you drink the most of to make the biggest impact. For me that's coffee, some tea, and wine. I don't drink much hard alcohol or beer but there are certain local/organic or just organic versions of both. Choose these. It's amazing to me how many people I know who eat a very conscious diet but forget somehow to drink sustainable coffee, tea, and wine. These, like your veggies, are plants. They can be highly sprayed or unsprayed. There are considerable labor issues when it comes to both – always look for Fair Trade coffee and tea. Depending on where you live, these can be local or from very far away. When it comes to coffee, shade-grown is another label to look for. The choices for organic/biodynamic/natural/sustainably grown grapes abound. Organic wine used to have a bad reputation but these taste great. Depending on where in the country you live, American wine might be less green than French. It has to do with transportation miles and economies of scale, not to mention irrigation.
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What I don't delve into in the book is the sort of drinks that line the beverage aisle and drinks cases in most supermarkets. Soda isn't a conscious choice. If you want bubbles with flavor, buy a home seltzer maker, use it, and add some home squeezed juice. If you choose to drink it, do so knowing how much water is involved and how the sugar that is processed into high fructose corn syrup affects both you, the farmers that raise it, and the earth. Juice is an odd middle ground territory. If you don't live near an organic orange grove but do live near a low spray apple orchard, drinking the latter for breakfast can have considerable conscious impact. Besides, so much that is sold in bright plastic bottles as juice is mainly water and sugar, with flavor and maybe some juice mixed in. A good way to drink real juice is to buy a juicer and make it yourself.
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Next post, we'll move onto packaged foods. Meanwhile, I'm curious to know how you're faring. Let me know in comments. Any questions? Put them there as well. Or, if you happen to be in the New York area, come ask me in person. To find out where I'll be speaking, head to www.alexandrazissu.com/events.
The Conscious Kitchen: The New Way to Buy and Cook Food - to Protect the Earth, Improve Your Health, and Eat Deliciously is an invaluable resource filled with real world, practical solutions for anyone who has read The Omnivore's Dilemma or seen Food, Inc. and longs to effect easy green changes when it comes to the food they buy, cook, and eat.
Children and teens are gulping down more sugary beverages and fruit juices than ever before, a new study has found.
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Children aged 2 to 19 now take in up to 15 percent of their total daily calories from drinks that contain sugar, a finding that confirms previous research and suggests consumption is rising.
It's known from previous studies that children and teens in the United States drink a lot of sugary beverages, said study author Dr. Y. Claire Wang, an assistant professor of health policy and management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, in New York City.
"We show that the consumption trend continues to increase," she said, and that it's occurring mostly at home.