Review: Pressery Bone Broth — Bone Broth Meets Cold-Pressed Juice
For Pressery, which produces HPP cold-pressed juices and drinking vinegars, a line of bone broths might not seem like the most logical brand extension. After all, the company's other lines are purely...
View ArticleReview: WhiteWave Takes Aim at Frappuccino with SToK Cold-Brew Coffee
SToK is a relative latecomer to the cold brew coffee category, and we think it’s going to take some serious brand building effort to get traction.
View ArticleReview: BluePrint Kombucha
The BluePrint Organic brand has been on an innovation tear as of late, releasing a host of new beverages that include both juice products and vinegar drinks. Its latest effort is this one, a four...
View ArticleReview: Starbucks Finally Joins the RTD Cold-Brew Space
Compared with what’s already on the market, this product isn’t exactly an innovative offering. But its execution is clean and the product is enjoyable, which allows Starbucks to be in the game with...
View ArticleReview: LIVE Sparkling Drinking Vinegars
LIVE has done a nice job of creating one of the more market-ready vinegar-based offerings that’s currently out there. While it’s hard to say exactly how big the potential is for a product like this, it...
View ArticleReview: Califia Farms Nitro Cold Brew
Califia Farms Nitro Cold Brew is a dairy-free offering that is, at least as far as we know, the first nitro cold brew offering to incorporate almond milk (and macadamia milk).
View ArticleReview: erva Yerba Mate
As far as yerba mate drinks go, Guayaki is certainly the bar -- and it’s even the brand that, according to the company’s web site, got the founder hooked on mate. So how does Erva stack up? The liquid...
View ArticleReview: Is Sunup’s Unroasted Green Coffee a Hot Ticket?
Eliminating the roasting process, which is basically what gives coffee its signature flavor, results in something very different: Instead of a dark, bold, and sometimes acidic flavor, Sunup’s Green...
View ArticleReview: Invo Evolves to Organic Coconut Water
While going organic may help Invo stay current and competitive, the market has changed quite a bit. There are more brands competing in the ultra premium coconut water space. And, perhaps more...
View ArticleReview: Chameleon Cold-Brew Adds “Texas Pecan” to Lineup
Chameleon's latest offering, Texas Pecan Coffee, feels like something that’s both a culmination of those efforts as well as a nod to its roots.
View ArticleReview: Peet’s RTD Cold Brew Offers a Familiar Approach and Solid Execution
Peet’s, which is a premium coffee roaster and retailer that operates several hundred coffee shops and also has wholesale distribution, is joining the ranks of established coffee players that are now...
View ArticleReview: Greater Than Continues Its Evolution
Greater Than, a coconut water-based sports drink, has been through several iterations since it was launched in 2010. The formulation, packaging and branding have all been changed, which is pretty much...
View ArticleReview: Metabrew Combines Coffee and Dairy-Free MCT
What Metabrew has essentially done is take the concept of Bulletproof coffee (coffee and MCT-rich grass fed butter, in the case of Bulletproof) and turn it into a dairy-free offering with added cacao...
View ArticleReview: Coco Libre Sparkling Organic Coconut Water
Coco Libre’s Sparkling Organic Coconut Water is an effort to innovate in what has otherwise been a somewhat stagnant coconut water category. In essence, the category got to a point where every flavor,...
View ArticleReview: Suja Drinking Vinegars
Suja, a leading brand of organic HPP beverages (and part of Coca-Cola’s investment portfolio), is using this product line to expand into one of the more nascent beverage categories: drinking vinegars.
View ArticleReview: Soylent Coffiest Leaves Its Flagship Flavor in the Dust
The core concept for Soylent Coffiest is the same as the brand's flagship variety, with a 400-calorie formulation that features a rather stocked nutrition facts panel designed with meal replacement in...
View ArticleReview: Rebbl Vanilla Spice Protein
Ever since Rebbl launched its Super Herbs line, it seems like each new flavor and iteration is taking the brand to higher levels of flavor and polish. The brand's latest flavor, Vanilla Spice Protein,...
View ArticleReview: Caliwater Adds New Flavors
Caliwater, which launched in 2014, is a brand of prickly pear-based beverages that recently introduced new flavors and a new package format.
View ArticleReview: Mojo Cold Brew
As we’ve mentioned many times, there are a lot of cold brew coffees out there and the consumer is faced with an ever increasing number of options. MOJO has attempted to combat that in two ways. First,...
View ArticleReview: La Colombe Adds Three New RTD Coffees
La Colombe has extended its lineup with two additional nitrous oxide-enhanced coffee drinks. These products, Triple Draft Latte and Vanilla Draft Latte, along with a third can-based line extension,...
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