Beverage Formulation

The basis of your beverage.

What is beverage formulation?

If you are starting out on the beverage development process, chances are you are using a recipe to craft your perfect home brewed beverage. To have your beverage product mass produced, your home recipe is taken to a Food Scientist who provides an industrial recipe or formula for making your product in mass quantities. The beverage formula has very specific instructions on how to batch, blend and copack your beverage product. The beverage formula will include packing requirements, shelf life or best by standards, heating and cooling requirements and finished product storage details.  


Beverage formulation is a formula (recipe) for a commercially produced beverage. The beverage formula has a list of ingredients. The ingredients include any flavors or specialty products. Curious about beverage ingredients? Turn over some popular beverage, search for the nutritional panel and read the ingredients. 




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Beverage flavor options:

  • Apple
  • Banana
  • Birthday Cake
  • Black Cherry
  • Black Current
  • Blueberry
  • Caramel
  • Chocolate
  • Citrus Punch
  • Coconut
  • Coffee
  • Cola
  • Custard
  • Dark Chocolate
  • Fruit Punch
  • Grape
  • Green Tea
  • Guava
  • Key Lime
  • Lemon
  • Lemon Lime
  • Lychee
  • Lime
  • Mango






  • Maple
  • Margarita
  • Mojito
  • Mint
  • Mixed Berry
  • Mocha
  • Oatmeal Cookie
  • Orange
  • Papaya
  • Peach
  • Pineapple
  • Pomegranate
  • Popcorn
  • Prickly Pear
  • Raspberry
  • Sangria
  • Sasparillo
  • Strawberry
  • Sugar Cookie
  • Sweet Cream
  • Sweet Lemon
  • Tamarind
  • Toasted Marshmallow
  • Tonic
  • Vanilla Cream
  • Watermelon
  • Wintergreen
  • Wildberry


Looking for something else?

These are just some flavor and ingredient options.  If there's a flavor or ingredient that you are looking for, chances are we've got it! Contact us to find out.

Beverage Ingredients

Sourcing ingredients for a beverage are similar to finding ingredients for your recipe, some you already have, while other ingredients you have to go shopping for at the regular store or specialty store. Big Brands will source your ingredients for your beverage product for you. By having our beverage experts available for your project, you can focus on building and growing your brand.  


Some common ingredients include:

  • Functional - vitamins, electrolytes, and minerals
  • Caffeine
  • Sweeteners - sugar, sucrose, glucose, and fructose, inositol, Stevia, Chicory root, sucralos, and monk fruit 
  • Stabilizers
  • Blends - vitamin blends, functional drink blends, and proprietary blends
  • Brewing materials - hops, yeast, malts, yeast and spices
  • Juices - blends, purees and concentrates
  • Botanicals and Adaptogens
  • Colors
  • Specialty classifications - organic , Kosher
  • Coffees and teas
  • Preservatives 


Ingredients can be available in liquid or powder form.




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Each beverage packaging, has its own cap or closure. For a list of the caps and closures that work with the various types of packaging, click to learn more.