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RAFT All-Natural Cocktail Ingredients Launch RAFT Bitters

Portland, Oregon based RAFT Cocktails has added to its line of all-natural cocktail syrups with four flavors of cocktail bitters – Aromatic, Cardamom, Orange, and Grapefruit. The bitters position RAFT to offer the building blocks for great cocktails. All consumers need is their favorite spirit and a little soda water for great cocktails at home. 

Karuna Aims to Balance Flavor and Function with Rebranded Line

The company is debuting a new brand design and a refined message that is aimed at fueling expanded distribution over the next 12 months. The revamped line emphasizes the products’ various functional benefits, wholesome ingredients, and its bonafides as a gut-health-boosting source of prebiotics.

Taste Radio Insider Ep. 4: How Sandows Is Using the Power of Design to Pave a Path for Cold Brew Across the Pond

The fourth installment of Taste Radio Insider features an interview with Hugh Duffie, the co-founder of U.K.-based coffee company Sandows, who spoke about the emergence of the cold brew category across the pond and using the power of design to elicit interest and trial. The hosts discussed the recent and abrupt shuttering of Pilotworks and riffed on recent office visits and notable products sent to BevNET HQ.

Doctor D’s Founders Announce 4,000 Mile ‘Guts to Glory Tour’

The creators of a sensational tasting sparkling probiotic drink are on a month-long, 4,000-mile-journey to promote wellness, collect food for the hungry, and share “guts to glory stories” from everyday heroes across America.

BAWLS Guarana Now Available at Fresh Thyme Farmers Market

BAWLS Acquisition, the makers of BAWLS Guarana, highly caffeinated soda, continues to expand its national distribution footprint, moving into 75 Fresh Thyme Farmers Market stores across the Midwest. BAWLS Guarana will be conveniently located in the cold box at the front of the store, and available in the 10oz. bottle in all five flavors, including Original, Cherry, Orange, Ginger, and Root Beer.

Wolfpack Brands Invests in GIVN Water

GIVN Goods LLC (GIVN), makers of GIVN Water, the nation's leading socially conscious premium beverage brand that provide one day of clean water to people in need for every bottle sold, is pleased to announce closing a seed funding round led by Wolfpack Brands.

Kilbeggan Launches Small Batch Rye

Today, the Kilbeggan Distilling Company celebrates the limited-edition release of Kilbeggan® Small Batch Rye, the only modern Irish whiskey of record to feature such a high quantity of rye within its mash.

SLRRRP Alcohol-Infused Gelatin Shots Enter New Hampshire

SLRRRP, the ready to drink gelatin shot, is expanding its distribution with the announcement of their partnership with Third Generation Family owned Martignetti New Hampshire, kicking off in October.

NACS 2018 Video: KÖE Kombucha Looks to Differentiate Via Shelf-Stability, Flavor

In an interview at the NACS 2018 show, which was held Oct. 7-10 in Las Vegas, Jared Smith, the VP of Sales for beverage developer and incubator Stratus Group, which markets canned kombucha maker KÖE and alkaline water brand Perfect Hydration, said that while the brand’s shelf-stability may be attractive to current kombucha drinkers, the products are specifically formulated to attract new consumers to the category.

LaCroix Says Essences Confirmed As “Natural”

A lab, accredited under the strict standards set by the International Standards Organization, tested vendor supplied ingredients to confirm they were derived from natural sources, such as fruit, instead of being artificially created in a lab. The rigorous standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials conclusively proved that no trace of artificial or synthetic additives was found.