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A-B has announced new primary and secondary packaging for ZiegenBock, the company's bock beer sold only in Texas. The new packaging features an outline of the state of Texas and [...]

Importer Paulaner North America of Englewood, CO has announced. that Paulaner Hefe-Weizen will now be sold in 12-packs. The beer in the 12-packs will also be packaged in an entirely [...]

Snyder International Brewing Group's Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, has given its Burger Beer a packaging makeover. The can redesign is the first for the brand since 1969. The brand's [...]

Guinness Bass Import Co., Stamford, Conn., announced it has launched nationally Guinness Draft in a Bottle, which uses the Rocket Widget, a free-floating ball widget that releases carbon dioxide and [...]

Scheduling Software Satisfies Packaging and Shipping Demands at Coors Packaging beer into 406 different types of containers at a rate of up to 17 million barrels a year could be [...]

Plastic `Beer Ball' Seen As Metal Keg Alternative Can a disposable, plastic quarter-barrel keg of beer find success -- or, for that matter, room -- in supermarkets? Golden, Colo.-based Coors, [...]

BEVERAGE MAKERS CHANGE THEIR STRIPES Take away the 'superstar' advertising campaigns, the musical jingles and all the other trappings for marketing beer and soft drinks that attempt to differentiate one [...]

A Golden company is trying to redefine the notion of a party animal. The Party Pig, rather than an obnoxious guest, is Quoin Industrial's answer to draft beer at home. [...]

MILWAUKEE -- For those of us who have always wanted a kinder, gentler, more personal beer, that day had finally come. Miller Lite here is unleashing its new packaging design [...]

Scottish Courage Brands may move all its beers into widemouthed cans if a trial it is running on McEwan's Export in Scotland proves to be a success. Wide-mouthed cans are [...]

Heineken has boosted the capacity of its brewery bottling plant in Marseilles, France, by using Mead Packaging's new servo-driven multipack machines. Duodozen 1250 beverage packaging machines produce fully enclosed packs and Cluster-Pak 850 machines can pack four different kinds of bottles. The Mead multipack systems feature a computer-controlled servo motor design which enable them to considerably reduce the multipack changeover time compared to shaft-driven packaging machines., When Mead Packaging introduced its Cluster-Pak 850 at the 1993 edition of Drinktec Interbrau, beverage operations expert John Peter Koss was, to say the least, duly impressed. After a deep [...]

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company Inc. is marketing a 12-bottle sample pack which consists of an E-fluted corrugated container resembling a woodhewn lodge. The packaging is a product of the combined efforts of Leinenkugel's graphics design department and Kell Specialty Packaging. The board, supplied by Menasha Corp., consists of 42# kraft liners and a 26# kraft medium to yield the 200# test, E-flute corrugated container., A 12-bottle beer sampler, made of E-flute corrugated flexo-printed in four colors and designed to look like a lodge, incorporates a strengthened handle for the 18-lb pack...discloses Senior Editor Rick [...]

Oxygen may be your lungs' best friend, but in packaged wine or beer [O.sub.2] is oh-too unwelcome. Monterey Vineyard in Gonzales, CA - founded in 1975 - produces about 650,000. [...]

Courage is putting 25m [Pounds] behind its effort to become the top standard lager by 1996. The Courage Beer Company is putting a 2.5m [Pounds marketing spend behind Foster's over [...]

In-can systems have contributed in no small way to the public's growing taste for canned bitter WIDGETS are the best thing to happen to beer since hops. The plastics inserts [...]

Stroh has given a new shading to Old Milwaukee Light, changing its graphics to blue and silver so the brand 'takes on the look associated with today's light beer.' Besides [...]

Schaefer and Schaefer Light rang in the new year with the introduction of a new outerwrap design. The new graphics are being rolled out just one month after Stroh Brewery [...]

The Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co. recently introduced a new look for their 12- and 40-oz. bottles packages of Little Kings Cream Ale. Both packages have been decorated with ACL (applied ceramic [...]

Latrobe Brewing Co. recently announced the launch of a new 22-oz. painted label longneck bottle for its Rolling Rock Premium beer. 'Big bottle sales are really taking off, and the [...]

This holiday season, Chicago's Goose Island Brewing Co. will offer consumers the opportunity to take home its Christmas Ale and Extra Special Bitter in 64-oz. growlers and 7.75-gallon kegs. Already [...]

In a year that has seen Pilsner Urquell's depletion rates increase and the introduction of the brand on draught in several markets, the 'Czechoslovakian treasure' has another reason to celebrate [...]

Georgia-Pacific's Containerboard & Packaging Division fancies itself in the problem-solving business. The Atlanta-based supplier recently considered this problem: 'In Pennsylvania, state law dictates that off-premise beer can be sold only [...]

In honor of its fifth anniversary, the Mass Bay Brewing Co. has revamped its product line to bring more consistency and visual appeal to its line of five beers, according [...]

Canada's Algonquin Brewing Co. announced that its Formosa Springs Cold-Filtered Draft beer is now available in 12-oz. cans throughout southern Ontario. 'We feel there will always be a significant portion [...]

The Budweiser and Michelob Golden Draft beer brands each received top honors for their packaging designs and production values during two recent competitions, according to a report from Anheuser-Busch, Inc. [...]

Forma-Pack's Clean-Top plastic beverage can carrier is used by Miller Brewing Co to package beer. Miller's Dave Fogelson notes that Clean-Top carriers, which completely cover can tops, have both environmental and consumer benefits. They are made from PET and are 100% recyclable through in-place programs. They also keep can tops clean. Beer packaged with Clean-Top carriers can be stacked easily.

Cold filtered 'packaged draft' beer has special quality assurance needs during the packaging phase of operations. This type of beer is cold filtered, usually to a 0.45 micron level, and then packaged under highly sanitized conditions, making it shelf-stable and not in need of refrigeration. A summary of quality control steps required to produce cold filtered beer, from filter sanitation to conveyor systems, is included., Since 1986 the growth of cold filtered 'packaged draft' beer has been dramatic, with almost two billion cans and bottles of the brew consumed in 1990. This increased production and [...]

Original Coors recently announced a new die-cut bottle carrier that features a mountain scene with 'bigger-than-life, thirst-quenching graphics,' according to the Coors Brewing Co. 'Consumers response to the package in [...]

Leinenkugel unveils new package graphics and year-long distribution Leinenkugel's Original Premium and Leinenkugel's Light beers will now be available in 12-12-oz. and 24 12-oz. loose-can packages, according to the brewer. [...]

Modelo Especial found in bottles According to the Gambrinus Importing Co., Modelo Especial will be packaged in new 12-oz., non-returnable bottles beginning in September. The brand is currently available only [...]

Watneys Red Barrel packaged in 21.6-oz. bottles for U.S. sales One of England's most famous beers, Watneys Red Barrel beer is now introducing a new 21.6-oz. bottle - designed for [...]

Genesee Brewing's century-old building houses 'new-fashioned' packaging technology At Genesee Brewing, Rochester, N.Y., good things come in threes. Six months ago, the company installed a new packaging line in its [...]

Asahi to launch new packaging Asahi Breweries, U.S.A., announced plans to launch two new Asahi Dry packages this month throughout the states of California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada. The new [...]

Playing to the brand's strength, Wisdom Import Sales is introducing a paperboard 12-pack for 12-ounce cans of Tecate. the Irvine, CA-based company calls the Mexican beer 'America's No. 1-selling beer [...]

Genuine Draft bottles embossed with seal Miller Genuine Draft and Genuine Draft Light recently introduced their newest packaging tack: 12-oz. bottles embossed with the cold-filtered seal. Both the regular and [...]

Bud family sees new secondary packaging The Budweiser family of beers, Budweiser, Bud Light and Bud Dry, has announced the introduction of bold new 'super graphics' on all of its [...]

Rolling Rock Light bottled in longnecks Rolling Rock Light is rolling out a new longneck for the on-premise market. A 12-oz. green bottle with a painted label follows in the [...]