Aqua Vie Beverages (fka AVBC)

[Georgia Bard]

Aqua Vie Increases Retail Availability Throughout U.S. Southern Half,
Additional Production Facility Contemplated

KETCHUM, Idaho, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation
(OTC Bulletin Board: AVBC) announced today that, with "up-and-down-the-street"
retail availability continuing to build, especially in the New York
Metropolitan Area, California and Texas, as a result of various distribution
agreements and initial orders received within the last 10 days, the company
expects its products to reach a new level of retail availability throughout
the southern United States and in specific "high-influence" markets, including
southern California and Las Vegas. Within the next 30 to 60 days, consumers
can expect to find all-natural Aqua Vie Hydrators(TM) in the following
additional retail chain locations:

-- Furr's Supermarkets (http://www.furrs.com) - 69 stores throughout
New Mexico;

-- Homeland (http://www.homelandok.com) - 86 stores throughout Oklahoma,
Texas, Kansas;

-- Lowes Foods (http://lowesfoods.com) - 100+ stores primarily in Virginia
and North Carolina;

-- Mays Drugs (http://www.maysdrug.com) - 48 stores in Oklahoma and Texas;

-- Winn-Dixie (http://www.winn-dixie.com) - 130 initial stores, primarily
in Florida.

Additionally, Aqua Vie has signed a number of new distributors to address
major markets in the South and Southwest, southern California and Clark County
(Las Vegas). These include Bottoms Up Distribution Inc., a wholesale beverage
distributor in Southern California serving Los Angeles and Orange County; Food
Distributors Inc. (Bristow, Okla.), serving retail grocery outlets throughout
Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas; J.W. Costello Beverage Company (Las Vegas), a
wholesale beverage distributor serving Las Vegas and southern Nevada; MDI
Merchants Distributors (Hickory, N.C.; http://www.alexlee.com), a privately
owned wholesale grocery store distributor supplying over 600 retail food
stores, including Lowes Foods, IGA, Galaxy and others located throughout
Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and
West Virginia; and New Mexico Beverage (Albuquerque), a wholesale beverage
distributor serving grocery and retail drug stores throughout New Mexico.
Thomas Gillespie, president and chief executive officer of Aqua Vie
Beverage Corporation, indicated that management will be tracking and analyzing
sales in these newly established regions throughout the next 90 days as it
evaluates a number of strategic alternatives, including the establishment of a
second production facility in a "freight-logical" venue.
Currently bottled in the United States in Fresno, Calif., low-calorie,
non-carbonated, all-natural Aqua Vie Hydrators(TM) are available in seven
flavors, including Avalanche(TM), Bamboo(TM), Harvest(TM), Java(TM),
McIntosh(TM), Paradise(TM), and Sun Tea(TM).

Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation develops and markets all natural, lightly
flavored, still (non-carbonated) bottled spring water. The company's
low-calorie alternative beverages are bacteria-free and contain no
preservatives. Aqua Vie produces and markets the Hydrator(TM) line of
beverages in the United States and Europe. This beverage line, comprised of
seven low-calorie, all-natural beverages that are lightly flavored and
packaged in half-liter bottles, is designed to increase one's personal
consumption of water, naturally. The underlying technology also serves as the
new delivery system for Aqua Vie's nutritionally fortified E Line(TM) --
Elixir(TM), Empower(TM), and Ecstasy(TM); its nutritionally specific line of
Aquaceuticals(TM); and Aqua Vie's nonalcoholic wine and champagne beverages
made from spring water. For further information about Aqua Vie Beverage
Corporation, visit the company's web site at www.aquavie.com.

NOTE: Statements contained in this release that are not strictly
historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the safe harbor clause of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are
made based upon information available to the company at the time, and the
company assumes no responsibility to update such forward-looking statements.
Editors and investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements
invoke risk and uncertainties that may cause the company's actual results to
differ materially from such forward-looking statements. These risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, demand for the company's
product both domestically and abroad, the company's ability to continue to
develop its market, general economic conditions, and other factors that may be
more fully described in the company's literature and any periodic filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.

SOURCE Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation
-0- 09/05/2000
/CONTACT: Thomas Gillespie, President/CEO of Aqua Vie Beverage
Corporation, 208-622-7792; or Madeleine Franco of Jordan Richard Assoc.,
801-268-8610, [e-mail], for Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation/
/Web site: http://www.winn-dixie.com/
/Web site: http://www.maysdrug.com/
/Web site: http://www.lowesfoods.com/
/Web site: http://www.homelandok.com/
/Web site: http://www.furrs.com/
/Web site: http://www.aquavie.com/
(AVBC)