Chalk up another craft brewery in the aluminum-container column: 16 Mile Brewing Co., a start-up brewery in Georgetown, DE, debuted its Old Court Ale and Amber Sun Ale in 22 oz. aluminum bottles in June.
Every container company is playing the green card these days, so it isn’t surprising that a new Canadian copacker would choose to call itself the Eco-Container Corp.
While hard times have taken a bite out of the gourmet coffee business, indulgent caffeine consumption continues to propel single-serve coffee sales, both for in-home and at-work consumption.
It was a small skirmish in the continuing war of the wine-bottle stoppers, but a recent filling and capping operation at a small winery in Walla Walla, WA marked another victory for synthetic closures over cork.
Gluten-free gnocchi, gluten-free beer, gluten-free soup: The dietary options for America’s estimated 2 million sufferers of celiac disease might soon rival their numbers, though food producers are uncertain if gluten-free is a fad or a trend.
Insincere sustainability claims expose companies to charges of greenwashing. Likewise, faux tie-ins to breast cancer fundraising has spawned a new term: pinkwashing.
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