Review: Stumptown Goes Organic with Holler Mountain Cold-Brew
Third-wave coffee roaster Stumptown, which is one of the pioneers of ready-to-drink cold brew coffee and continues to be an innovator in the space, is heading into a new segment: organic.
Reviews
Review: Pressery Sparkling Drinking Vinegars
Like the rest of Pressery’s product offerings, these are USDA Organic certified and feature a straightforward list of ingredients. Each is made with water, cold-pressed juice (9-14 percent), coconut vinegar, and maple for sweetness.
Review: Lucky Jack Chocolate Blackout
With the risk of sounding like a broken record, new cold brew varieties need meaningful differentiation to stand out from the dozens coming to market. Lucky Jack is conscious of this need, too. Its latest effort, “Chocolate Blackout,” infuses cold-brew coffee with nitrogen and flavors it with cocoa.
Review: Vim Vitae Takes On a Summertime Classic
Dallas, Tex.-based Vim Vitae, which, earlier this year rebranded itself, has added a new line to its portfolio of high pressure processed cold-pressed juices: Limeades.
Review: Matcha LOVE Ice-Steeped Cold Brew Tea
In our opinion, one of the big reasons that cold brew tea hasn’t exactly found the same level of success as cold brew coffee is because it doesn’t yet have a noticeably different taste than its hot brewed counterpart. ITO EN, which is the Japanese company behind Matcha LOVE, is attempting to make an effort to change that.
Review: Alta Palla Organic Sparkling Waters
Alta Palla has chosen to attack this category with a 16 oz. can. The size puts it on part with products that are packaged in plastic bottles. It’s hard to say if a non-resealable package of this size is going to beat out a smaller and perhaps more appropriately portioned sized can, but it is something that gives the product a visual point of differentiation.
Review: Exceptional Nitro Cold Brew Coffee from Rise Brewing Company
While there are a growing number of nitro offerings out there, this is, given the extra technical hurdle of working with nitro, still a point of differentiation for now. Fortunately though, what Rise has created is one of the best tasting nitro cold brews out there.
Review: MatchaBar Gets an Update for 2017
The line, which originally featured a more squat looking bottle and brightly colored labels, has been given a refresh.
Review: Salad Power
SaladPower is a product that was created after the company’s founders went around New York City looking for juice only to find two common themes: high sugar and high price.
Review: Villager Goods Coconut Water
Launched by the founders of Saint Archer Brewing, Villager Goods is a company that aims to launch a suite of lifestyle products under the brand. From our perspective as folks who have seen countless coconut waters come and go, it seems daunting to turn something like coconut water -- even an organic one -- into something that’s going to spark the movement that the company is after.
Review: Wonder Drink Kombucha Adds New Flavors
Since being acquired by Pure Steeps in 2016, Wonder Drink, which has been in the kombucha business since 1999, has been undergoing a bit of an evolution in both branding and messaging. Now months after the acquisition, the brand has added its first new flavors to the lineup.
Review: 4 Some Plant Protein Smoothies
The concept behind 4 Some seems like a timely one: take the good parts (namely the fruit flavor) of a cold-pressed and high pressure processed juice and add fiber and plant based protein to create a well-rounded beverage with a variety of benefits.
Review: WTRMLN WTR Expands With “BLNDS”
WTRMLN WTR has expanded its line with several new products, launching nationwide at Whole Foods. The new offerings are called BLNDS (“blends”) and feature a pairing of their watermelon water base blended with another ingredient: LMN (lemonade), CHRRY (tart cherry), LME (lime), and GNGR (ginger).
Review: Bonafide Provisions’ Drinkable Veggies Marries Both Broth and Drinkable Soup
The nexus of drinkable soup and bone broth is something that works quite well and, after seeing and tasting what the company has created, feels like it might have larger potential than either concept does by itself.