Review: Mocktail Club
Mocktail Club is a line of ready-to-drink-mocktails that are made with all natural clean ingredients. The company offers a variety of flavors that are modeled after popular cocktails, each packaged in 12 ounce glass bottles.
PATH Building Bridge Beyond “Water” With New Identity, Investors
Looking to take the company to the next stage in its mission to help the environment through sustainable packaging, bottled water maker Pathwater has rebranded as PATH, a move that comes as the company completes a celebrity-backed funding round and rapidly scales its retail footprint.
Ugly Finds Spark in Soda Ahead of Retail Push
Ugly announced today that the four most-popular flavors from the past year of special releases — Cherry Cola, Dr. Ugly, Orange Soda and Fruit Punch — will be the tip of the spear for a deeper push into brick-and-mortar retail, highlighted by its launch in over 6,400 CVS stores this May.
Taste Radio: Twist, Shake, Disrupt. How DRNXMYTH Is Redefining A Category.
Brandon Schwartz & Lawrence Cisneros, the co-founders of innovative ready-to-pour cocktail brand DRNXMYTH, spoke about how they navigated a complex web of regulation, supplier partnerships and packaging technology to achieve their vision for the products and how they surrounded themselves with investors that understood the impact of technology within an emerging category.
Health-Ade Launches Line of Kombucha-Based Mixers
Health-Ade Kombucha is further expanding its platform with Health-Ade Mixers, a new line of kombucha-based cocktail bases launching this spring. The new line, which is rolling out as a Whole Foods Market exclusive, is made with kombucha and additional ingredients, including simple syrup, bitters and juice, to create a unique style of cocktail mixer.
Chobani, PepsiCo Partner on Distribution Pilot Test in Northeast
Chobani has teamed with PepsiCo to further its ambitions in the refrigerated space through a pilot distribution program that will take the yogurt maker’s products into convenience retailers, colleges and universities across the Northeast starting this month.
PepsiCo Expands Hilo as The Hive Speeds Up Innovation
The company has spent the last two years retooling The Hive, its latest emerging brands division. Now Hilo, the first brand to emerge from the incubator, is ready to spread its wings, moving into brick and mortar retail and, this week, launching new products.
As RTD Ambitions Grow, Greenbar Sees “Cocktail Dream” Realized
This year, fueled by a 384% sales increase in 2020, Los Angeles-based Greenbar Distillery is expecting its now-expanded family of RTDs is be above 80% of total volume.
Review: Brew Dr. Uplift
Uplift, Brew Dr.’s first non-kombucha beverage, pairs yerba mate, guayusa, and green tea -- all ingredients with natural caffeine -- with added probiotics to create a better-for-you energy drink.
Pepsi Announces Mango as First Permanent Flavor in Five Years
PepsiCo announced today the launch of Pepsi Mango, the core brand’s first permanent flavor addition in five years. The new product, available in regular and Zero Sugar varieties, will roll out nationwide next week. Pepsi Mango will launch primarily in grocery, mass and convenience retailers and will be available in 12-packs of 12 oz. cans and 20 oz. bottles.
AMAZ Relaunches with Canned Yerba Mate Line
Plant-based beverage brand AMAZ Project announced this month a brand refresh, featuring the launch of a new line of organic sparkling yerba mate drinks. The new drinks are available in three flavors: Acai Blueberry, Peach Mango and Lemon Ginger.
Category Close-Up: Product Showcase – Juice
On this edition of Product Showcase, you’ll hear about the latest product innovations and brand updates from Happy Moose, Karuna Beverages, Uncle Matt's Organic, Monfefo, Garden of Flavor, Suja Organic, Vive Organics and JUICERA.
Category Close-Up: Expert Analysis – Juice
In this episode of Category Close-Up, our panel of experts examined the present and future of the juice segment, framing current trends against historical precedents and consumer preferences.
High Hops: Non-Alc Brands Look to Create a Category Around Hops
This nascent space has seen an influx of innovation within the past two years, including startups such as HopTea, HOP WTR, Aurora Superior Sparkling Beverages and Oregon Hop Springs, as well as offerings from beer brewers like Urban Chestnut Brewing Company and Snake River Brewing. Even non-alcoholic beer brewers have gotten on board with the trend.