Although it once seemed convenient to stop in at a local store to pick up needed items, consumers now can skip the trip altogether and have items delivered to their doors. In turn, this affects how companies package, warehouse, handle and ship products, resulting in a variety of operational shifts.

The company’s GITEC division’s new PureDraught uses a custom-molded, double-walled, bottle-in-bottle polymer keg that allows air or gas to be fed into the outer bottle, which keeps its shape and pushes the beer out of the inner bottle.

With dollar sales reaching approximately $112 billion, the U.S. beer market continues to be one of the top categories based on dollar sales in the overall beverage industry, according to Chicago-based Mintel.

Multi-Conveyor LLC recently designed, built and installed a new stainless-steel, washdown table-top conveyor line that will pick up empty bottles after rinsing and then convey them to either the existing bottler or to a canning machine.

Developed to meet the many fluid transfer needs of brewers, BrewSavor products include plastic and rubber tubing, reinforced hose, fittings, clamps and hose assemblies for both hot- and cold-brew processes.

As beer drinkers look for new, flavorful options, analysts note that sour beers are delivering on that need state.

The combined company will have a leading position in the high end of the U.S. beer market, bringing together Boston Beer’s craft beer portfolio with Dogfish Head’s award-winning portfolio of IPA and session sour brands.

As the beverage market evolves, consumers now are able to combine drinking a little drink and smoking a little smoke into one (fluid) action with new developments in cannabis-infused beverages.

Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC) and Beverage Industry welcomed beverage professionals to the 26th rendition of The Beverage Forum.

The Brewers Association, Boulder, Colo., welcomed approximately 14,000 attendees to the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) & BrewExpo America, which took place April 8-11 in Denver.