Alcoholic Beverage Development
From Beverage Concept to Commercial Production
Have an alcoholic beverage idea but aren't sure how to turn it into a product you can actually sell?
Developing an alcoholic beverage requires more than creating a great flavor. Your product needs to be formulated for consistency, manufactured at commercial scale, packaged appropriately, and developed with alcohol regulations and labeling requirements in mind.
Big Brands helps beverage companies navigate the path from initial concept and flavor development through commercial formulation and copacking.
Whether you're developing a canned cocktail, hard seltzer, spirits-based RTD, wine beverage, or another alcoholic beverage, the right formulation is where your product begins.
Flavor Comes First
A successful alcoholic beverage starts with a fgreat tasting beverage!
Our formulation process begins by understanding your product concept, target consumer, desired alcohol content, flavor profile, and intended market.
We can help develop formulations around:
- Natural flavors
- Botanical extracts
- Fruit flavors
- Citrus
- Sweeteners
- Acids
- Functional ingredients
- Color
- Carbonation
- Alcohol
- Water and other beverage bases
Our goal is to help you develop a beverage that tastes good, performs consistently, and can be produced commercially.
Alcoholic Beverage Licensing & TTB Requirements
There are many things to consider when it comes to TTB approval that come up throughout the process of developing your alcoholic beverage. Our team has decades of knowledge and experience in dealing with the approval process and will ensure that your product stays compliant throughout the alcoholic beverage development services to eliminate any scenario where your project goes backwards. We will keep everything moving towards the bottling and launch of your TTB approved alcoholic beverage product.
Alcoholic beverage brands often encounter the TTB during the product development process.
Depending on the beverage category and formulation, TTB requirements may involve formula approval, labeling, and/or a COLA.
This is another reason it's important to think about compliance before your final formulation and packaging are locked in.
Changing an ingredient, alcohol base, product classification, or label claim late in development can create additional work.
