The beverage industry is facing new supply chain pressures in 2025, with tariffs, rising costs, and shifting trade policies affecting key ingredients and materials. Agrowgate’s latest report provides insights into these challenges and what they mean for brewers and beverage producers. Learn how to adapt and stay ahead in an evolving market.
Another round of investors has gone batty for Brother's Bond Bourbon, the whiskey brand founded by co-stars of the teen TV drama series Vampire Diaries.
While there has been plenty of action in the fast-growing RTD cocktail scene, this year has already seen a raft of eye-catching new spirit launches. Here’s a quick recap of some of 2025’s early arrivals, including Megan Thee Stallion’s new tequila, a culture-merging limited release from Don Julio, and another flavor in Midnight Moon’s milkshake-inspired liqueur line.
In this roundup of new product reviews, we go tropical green with Remedy Organics, taste Ethiopian cold drip coffee from Gaffle! and get to know “social soda” from Daizy’s before…
Sparkling water brand Aura Bora, known for its creative can designs and botanical infused flavors, has been acquired by New York-based investor and brand collective Next In Natural.
BevNET’s annual “Best Of” Awards recognize the companies, brands, individuals, products, ideas, and trends that are driving the beverage industry forward. The highly-anticipated awards show will take place in Marina del Rey, CA during BevNET Live Winter 2025, happening December 7-9, 2025.
Way back in 1995, 15-year-old GT Dave began brewing his first batch of kombucha in his childhood home. Flash forward 30 years, and what was once, for American consumers, an obscure, fermented Asian tea drink is now a multimillion dollar beverage category with a presence in just about every major retail channel across the United States.
Despite inflationary concerns, consumers continue to spend money in the on-premise, according to a recent report from the Bank of America Institute.
Ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails may be one way through the bourbon glut, according to Bardstown Bourbon president Pete Marino.
Big soda has been Melvin “Mel” Landis’s meal ticket for most of his professional career. Now he’s gone to work for one of the brands with the greatest potential to disrupt that category, signing on as the president of Olipop.
Functional drink Tru recently closed a $4.6 million funding round highlighted by further alignment with Polar Beverage who will now be handling manufacturing, distribution and warehousing for the brand.
As you may have heard, some people are upset with Poppi. While the soda brand’s Super Bowl ad caused a bit of consternation, we have a different take on it… and that of Liquid Death’s controversial TV spot. This episode also features an interview with Luke Montgomery-Smith, the co-founder of Plink, a brand of flavored, electrolyte-infused tablets designed to create effervescent and hydrating beverages.
This week’s new beverage launches include some innovative new soda flavors ranging from Mandarin Refresco to… Pepperoni Pizza? We also look at some co-branded partnerships involving PEEPS and Paris Hilton.
DFA, which provides co-packing services for RTD coffee beverage brands, alleged that Westrock, a private label coffee and tea manufacturer of poaching talent and stealing trade secrets in a lawsuit filed in November in a Missouri court.
