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Business Intelligence
Standing Out with Sustainable Strategies in Craft Beer and Spirits
Craft beer and spirits producers can connect with eco-conscious consumers through sustainability strategies including material switches, better labeling, and lightweighting.
April 4, 2024
Material switches are one way craft producers can connect with sustainability-focused consumers.
Business Intelligence
Non-Alcoholic Beer and Spirits Buzzing in the Craft Market
Trends like Dry January and Sober October are fueling growth in non-alcoholic beer and spirits, and craft producers are adding these products to their portfolios in response.
March 15, 2024
Non-alcoholic beverages can generally be packaged in the same format as their boozy counterparts, making it easier for craft producers to add an N/A option to their portfolios.
Beverage
Lazy Magnolia Blooms After Automation Influx
Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company’s recent front-of-line automation investments are supporting in-house and contract packing growth, with plans for secondary packaging investment to further quicken operations.
March 14, 2024
Lazy Magnolia's own brand canned beers currently use pressure-sensitive labels, but the brewery plans to switch to printed cans as soon as volume justifies the move.
Operational Excellence
Craft Market Success Comes in Many Packages
Craft producers can build greater brand awareness by focusing on factors like primary packaging variety, multipacks, and specialty releases.
March 8, 2024
Various packaging sizes, multipack options, and specialty releases can help craft producers stand out from the crowd and grow brand loyalty.
Materials & Containers
Diageo & Bacardi's Circular Spirits Format Emerges by Land, Sea, & Casino
The big spirits brands and their channel partners seek to eliminate tons of single-use packaging waste in bars, casinos, and even cruise ships with the disruptive ecoTOTE and SmartPour reusable packaging format.
December 7, 2023
A bar or restaurant that serves a sufficient quantity of a certain spirit—say Smirnoff as a house vodka, or Bacardi Superior as a house rum—can simply swap out these large glass bottles into a dispensing device behind the bar, akin to a watercooler or beer tap.
Beverage
Texas’s Oldest Craft Brewer Finds New Ways to Manage Aluminum Can Waste
As demand for Saint Arnold’s beer grew, so did the need for sustainable solutions to manage excess waste. The Weima E.200 drainage press provided an easy way to dispose of underfilled or damaged cans.
November 17, 2023
Saint Arnold, Texas’s oldest craft brewer, creates beer sold in distinctive, colorful cans.
PACK EXPO
Aseptic Beverage Tools for Aluminum Cans and Additive Drinks
GEA showcases its UniBloc Flex system and multi-option dosing pistons for high-volume, hygienic beverage manufacturing at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.
September 15, 2023
GEA UniBloc Aluminum Aseptic Bottling
Operational Excellence
Beverage Industry Purchasing Index Grows in 2023
The beverage industry purchasing index shows expansion in every metric after contractions in 2022.
June 15, 2023
The 2023 beverage industry purchasing index is growing in 2023, albeit at a slightly slower pace than the overall market.
Beverage
Reusable Rubber Bands Save Drake's Brewing Miles of Shrink Wrap
Drake’s Brewing was looking for a more environmentally friendly way to move its kegs from location to location. It found it in rubber pallet bands from Aero Rubber.
May 28, 2023
Rubber pallet bands gave Drake’s Brewing an alternative to shrink-wrapping its empty kegs to move them around the facility, saving the brewery 565 lb of plastic waste in the first year of use.
Beverage
Live at the Craft Brewers Conference: Brewers Need to Find New Ways to Innovate and Grow
We can no longer blame COVID for continued stagnation in the craft brew industry. To appeal to the younger generation—and female and BIPOC drinkers, in particular—breweries will need to take a hard look at what they’re doing.
May 10, 2023
Bart Watson, the Brewers Association's chief economist, explains to craft brewers why they need to come up with new ideas to get out of a period of slow to no growth.
Package Design
Reflections on the Simply Tropical Lawsuit
A class-action lawsuit alleges that Simply Tropical juice drink contains synthetic chemicals.
March 11, 2023
Sterling Anthony
Primary Packaging
Filler, Seamer Lets Contract Brewer Keep D.O. Low
To contract craft brewer The Brutalist and its owner King State Beer, dissolved oxygen is four-letter word. A new filler and seamer combo keeps D.O. low and the beer quality high, while paperboard multipacks help to make an impact on the shelf.
March 10, 2023
From left, Aric Parker and Pete Lewis of King State and The Brutalist, Tegan Foster and Amanda King of Hawthorne Bottle Shoppe, and Vinny Giusto of King State and the Brutalist.
Sustainable Packaging
Estrella Galicia Replaces Paperboard with Adhesive-Only, 'No Pack' Multipacks
The No Pack uses a line of glue dots where one can abuts another in a 6-pack, obviating the legacy paperboard multipacks to minimize waste and carbon footprint.
January 7, 2023
Dots of adhesive at each joint between the six cans in a 6-pack obviate Estrella Galicia's legacy paperboard multipacks.
Package Design
Wild Tonic’s Packaging Goes from Boring to Bee-utiful
Unique Jun-style kombucha brand Wild Tonic updates its packaging graphics to focus on the heart of the brand: honey, bees, Sedona, and Jun in general.
January 6, 2023
Wild Tonic packaging AFTER the redesign.
Contract Packaging
Co-man/Co-pack Rides the Wave of Adult Ice Pops, Pouched Alcohol
Adult beverage branding and marketing firm Iconic Brands merges with co-man/co-pack TopPop Packaging to address the rapidly growing market for RTD cocktails and RTF adult ice pops, as well as more healthy options for wine and spirits.
December 9, 2022
Among TopPop’s offerings are adult ice pops in flexible sachets and juice and water products in stand-up pouch packaging.
Materials & Containers
Scent-Flavored, Refillable Drinking System Comes to the U.S.
The Air Up hydration system combines a custom-engineered, reusable water bottle with scent-infused PP rings that transmit flavor through the consumers’ sense of smell.
November 22, 2022
Air Up Bottle System
Package Design
Amid Beer Sticker Craze, Can Labels Become the Sticker
A peel-off brewery sticker is affixed to every can, making each label a durable, collectible keepsake, and improving the cans' recyclability.
November 17, 2022
Whetstone Beer 2
Package Design
Starbucks Elevates Coffee Art with New Packaging Design
In the first new packaging design for its core whole bean coffee roasts in a decade, Starbucks takes its storytelling strategy to new heights.
November 9, 2022
Packaging Design 1
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