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In conjunction with the launch of the Star bottle for its Heineken and Heineken Light brands, Heineken USA also introduced new secondary packaging for the brands' six-, 12-, 18-and 24-packs. [...]

Supporting its motto, 'Everybody loves big cans,' Moat Mountain Brewing Co. launched its Bone Shaker Brown Ale in 24-ounce Rexam cans. The brown ale is the company's second beer to [...]

There will be more than 10 green or brown bottles standing on the supermarket shelves if regional and national brewers have their way. Mike Dennis looks at how the bottled [...]

Visy, an Australian packaging, manufacturing and recycling company, has partnered with Byron Bay Brewery to develop a new PET beer bottle. The proprietary PET bottle technology is said to extend [...]

With many craft brewers choosing to sell their beer in cans these days, glass maker Owens-Illinois (O-I) commissioned a study to find out which package type consumers really prefer. The [...]

Boulder Beer Co. released its summer seasonal Hoopla Pale Ale in six-packs of 12-ounce cans. Hoopla Ale was created last year through a collaboration by the Colorado-based Boulder Beer brewers [...]

Oskar Blues Brewery of Colorado and Sun King Brewing Co. of Indiana have partnered on Chaka, a limited-run handcrafted Belgian-style ale. Because the beer is one-of-a-kind, the two breweries decided [...]

Craft brewers tend to be considerably more creative in their package design than the big national brands, and Boulder, CO-based Avery Brewing Co. is no exception--as the company's website demonstrates [...]

According to a just-released study by Polysultants Co., high-barrier polyester (PEN) resin is the recommended material choice as a standalone, monolayer container for the beer package of tomorrow. The report, [...]

If you haven't got a widget, forget it. Mary Lewis looks at how this new technology has affected the packaging design of three of the 'new' canned bitter brands After [...]

Bass is likely to lead the take-home beer market towards the permanent half-litre can format; But, this does not necessarily mean the end of the small can. The old faithful [...]

Times are tough for the standard lager market. But, as Mike Dennis reports, some brewers are still holding out against the move to permanent 500ml cans. There are no immediate [...]

Bomb Lager, a new craft beer from Bomb Beer, has launched in Rexam 12-ounce cans. Bomb Lager is committed to building a brand that embodies artistic expression and creativity, as [...]

NEW YORK -- Brewers are creating excitement in the beer aisle with bold new packaging. Anheuser-Busch InBev has rolled out a new 'bow tie' can design for Budweiser, while MillerCoors [...]

Market Source, a fresh produce repacker and distributor headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, has launched a new 4-pack of limes, called Beer Lime, the ultimate combination of convenience, taste and long-lasting [...]

LAUNCHED: JUNE 2011 Designed to honor one of Mexico's most iconic artists, Frida Kahlo, Bohemia beer introduces limited-edition packaging. The neck labels of the 12oz bottles feature Kahlo's face, in [...]

UK brewers certainly don't hold back when it comes to advertising their brands, but when it comes to packaging them they are thought to be a bit too conservative. Now [...]

More and more people are trying canned 'draught' versions of their favourite on-trade beers, according to exclusive research carried out for Super Marketing. Nick Harding reports. 'DRAUGHT' BITTER, what a [...]

Going into 500ml has proved a life-saver for a number of standard lager brands, and a 500ml sub-sector now seems to exist in all but name. Nick Harding reports. WHO [...]

The imported beer market is currently dominated by bottles but, if any products are to make it mainstream, will the canned variant become more important? COULD IT be that the [...]

Visit a handful of craft breweries and at Least a couple of them will have a barrel room (or small corner) with stacks of fine cooperage-often bourbon barrels from some [...]

Glass packaging for a super-premium 'barrel-aged' version of Sam Adams beer uses a barrel motif. Sam Adams Barrel Room Collection from Boston Beer Co. comes in black glass bottles from [...]

Perhaps the shape-shifting, moldable quality of glass is nowhere more apparent than in the new Vortex bottle for Miller Lite beer from MillerCoors, where the innovation is found inside the [...]

'We see opportunity for continued growth in specialty (anything other than standard 12-ounce) can sizes. These cans give brand owners the opportunity to provide the right size for the occasion, [...]

It's no coincidence that a beer can graces the cover of this month's Packaging Digest. January 2010 marks the 75th anniversary of the commerical use of cans as containers for [...]

Pottsville, PA's D.G. Yuengling & Sons, Inc., 'America's Oldest Brewery,' reported it now packages its 'Black & Tan' in 16-oz. cans. 'We developed the first Black & Tan on draught [...]

Sapporo U.S.A. announced the introduction of all-aluminum two-liter mini-keg packaging for Sapporo Draft beer. The mini-keg has a longer shelf life and keeps beer cold even if removed from refrigeration, [...]

Anheuser-Busch, Inc., has designed a new can that 'will save millions of pounds of aluminum each year,' a brewery spokesperson reported. Officials said last week that the cans feature a [...]

So when does the holiday season arrive, anyway? For me, the season begins when I can order a winter beer at the neighborhood tavern, or pick up a limited-edition six-pack [...]

Scottish & Newcastle will review the packaging and marketing of its Newcastle Brown Ale when it moves production away from Tyneside next year. The drinks supplier announced this week that [...]

Exal Corp. developed a recyclable aluminum bottle for Boulevard Brewing's Unfiltered Wheat Beer. The bottle features a neck profile topped with crown finish, a closure that until now has been [...]

Exal Corp. developed a recyclable aluminum bottle for Boulevard Brewing's Unfiltered Wheat Beer. The bottle features a neck profile topped with crown finish, a closure exclusively used with glass, the [...]

Beer giant Scottish & Newcastle has unveiled new environmentally friendly plastic packaging for three of its biggest brands. Four, eight and 12-can packs of Foster's, Kronenbourg 1664 and Strongbow will [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] International Beverage is introducing six-bottle carry-out packs for its Chang beer--the brand's first entry into multipacks. The new packs (rsp 6.99 [pounds sterling]) are being roiled out now [...]

The beer market is turning into a new foodservice bag-in-box opportunity for Scholle Packaging with the U.S. launch of a new plastic keg that replaces steel. The Northlake, IL-based bag-in-box [...]

When Moorhouse's Brewery needed a new lightweight bottle for two of its leading brands, Beatson Clark together with Rawlings & Son of Bristol were able to use some magic of [...]

Yuengling variety pack is now offered Yuengling Brewery, Inc., has kicked off this fall season with the introduction of its new variety pack - a 24-bottle case featuring four of [...]

Anheuser-Busch and the Environment Norman Nieder, group director of Anheuser-Busch's packaging technology group and a vice president of the National Beverage Packaging Association, delivered a paper to the 1990 Scrap [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In April, MillerCoors launched its latest packaging innovation--a Vented Wide Mouth Can--for its Coors Light brand. The industry's first can with a built-in vent, it also has a [...]

Miller Lite is testing a 16oz aluminum pint bottle throughout much of the Midwest and South through the end of the year, focusing on the convenience retail channel. The resealable [...]

Special to the Mississippi Business Journal There are countless ways to live the 'High Life,' but one of the most popular options among fans of 'The Champagne of Beers' is [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Coors Brewers has used new cold-activated technology in a packaging redesign for Coors fight beer. When the bottle or can reaches ready-to-drink temperature the Rocky Mountain icon turns [...]

Fat Tire Amber Ale, part of New Belgium Brewing Co., Fort Collins, Colo., will be packaged and distributed in aluminum cans this summer. With the new packaging, Fat Tire Amber [...]

Venezuelan beer brand Polar has introduced Zero, a low alcohol content beer targeted toward active, social men and women that want a refreshing beer but don't need full alcohol content [...]

Coors introduced a new style can for its Carling Lager in the United Kingdom. Using thermographic inks, Graphic Packaging, Marietta, Ga., created an eight-pack version of the Fridge Vendor package [...]