Big Brands Knows Beverages. Not sure which category your beverage falls into? Learn more about the different types of beverages we co-pack.
What is a Non-Alcoholic Beverage?
A non-alcoholic beverage is defined as one that has no more than 0.05% alcohol by volume. Other words to describe non-alcoholic products include no, free, zero, low, light or reduced. There has been an increased popularity with low alcohol and alcohol free beverages like wine, spirits, beer, and cocktails. Years ago, the word mocktail was the only was that was used to describe a drink that didn’t contain alcohol.
The term alcohol free, means that the product contains no alcohol. For beverage labeling, a zero proof and alcohol free product is represented by 0.0% vol. When low or non-alcoholic is used, it is below 0.5% alcohol by volume.
To add to the flavor profile and aroma of a non-alcoholic product, an alcohol flavored additive can be added to your beverage. By adding an alcohol flavor, the alcohol version can be mimicked, but the finished product becomes non-alcoholic. For example, an alcohol free spirits are mostly flavor based used to imitate the original product. These unique products are sometimes refereed to as artisanal and alcohol flavored non-alcoholic beverages.
What is an Alcoholic Beverage?
Big Brands copacks fermented, brewed, and distilled alcoholic beverages. Types of alcoholic beverages include fermented alcoholic beverages produced by natural fermentation, such as wine and beer. With wine, grapes are fermented and with beer, barley, wheat or other grains are fermented. Fermented drinks are also called undistilled drinks. The process of fermentation of a beverage includes bacteria or yeast chemically converting sugar into ethanol.
The beverage copacking process of distillation, comes after fermentation. With distillation, the fermented product is converted to an even higher concentration of alcohol. Types of distilled alcoholic products are liquors and spirits and contain more alcohol by volume than undistilled drinks.
What is a Functional Beverage?
A functional beverage provides additional health benefits and has beneficial effects on one or more function of the human body. Functional beverages have added nutrients in them. For example, those nutrients could be antioxidants, dietary fibers, prebiotics, proteins, flavonoids, carotenoids, minerals and vitamins. In this category, meal replacements can also be added since they have a high content of nutritional value. Some functional beverages aim to increase energy and mental focus.
