After years of substantial growth, craft beer is beginning to slow down slightly, while craft spirits are passing into a phase similar in scale to craft beer’s previous decade-long expansion, according to the Craft Breweries and Distilleries Machinery and Automation Trends white paper by PMMI.

Kentucky Owl, "The Wise Man's Bourbon," has released Confiscated, a handcrafted batch of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey from master blender Dixon Dedman. 

In the end, not everything ends up where it should with an online shipment, and there is a lot of waste involved. It’s also a problem Amazon is aware of, and is seeking to rectify by pushing its vendors to use recyclable packaging materials certified under Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging program.

Wine has found its niche in the aluminum can — and with it, refreshing flavors and packaging design. Winesellers Ltd., a family owned, global importer and marketer of fine wines, just launched Santa Julia Organic Rosé, Organic Chardonnay & Tintillo Malbec Red Blend in 375 ml cans.

BeatBox Beverages has added Fresh Watermelon to its wine-based Party Punch range, joining Pink Lemonade, Fruit Punch, and Blue Razzberry. 

Bemis Company Inc. is the winner of this year’s prestigious FPA Highest Achievement Award for their Molson Coors 12-Pack Cooler Bag. The bag also won two Gold Awards for Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging and Printing & Shelf Impact, and a Silver Award for Packaging Excellence. The Cooler Bag creates a fresh take on the ubiquitous beer carton.

Personalization is a growing packaging trend which shouldn't be missed by emerging brands. Here are three ways you can get much closer to your consumer and build trust.

With beer being such an outwardly simple phenomenon, surely packaging it is pretty straightforward. As it turns out, it’s trickier than you might think. Here are the five most common mistakes we’ve observed — and on occasion, rectified.

Get back to basics and reach the customer before they dive into the papers in a product's packaging and toss them aside. Here are four tactics backed by data that you can use on the packaging directly around your product as well as on those shipping boxes your warehouse sends out to e-commerce shoppers.