Brewers craft beer that’s too good to pour down a drain and isn’t always available in bottles. But drain-pour often happens when beer goes flat in a glass growler. The uKeg solves that problem. This pressurized, portable growler keeps oxygen away from beer and maintains perfect carbonation for two weeks or more. An easy-to-use cap, equipped with a low-cost, food-grade CO2 cartridge, partners with a vacuum-insulated, stainless steel vessel to make the uKeg’s unique benefits possible. Drink fresh, cold, carbonated beer at your leisure and wherever you want to be. Available in half-gallon and gallon sizes. www.growlerwerks.com
Southern Distilling Company, owned and operated by entrepreneurs Pete and Vienna Barger, is the first distillery to open in Statesville, N.C., since 1903. In addition to its own award-winning Southern Star product line, the company offers a broad range of contract distilling services for domestic and foreign brand owners, distilleries, and retailers—including custom distilling, warehousing, and bottling/packaging services.
The state-of-the-art 25,000-square-foot distillery, one of the nation’s largest, is equipped with Vendome continuous column and batch pot still distillation systems and located on a 20-acre farm surrounded by locally grown grain. Southern Distilling has the valued distinction among bulk spirits producers of offering a unique opportunity for clients to create grain-to-glass, craft-made spirits that are key to their brand, as well as to be actively engaged in a collaborative production process. www.southerndistillingcompany.com
Designed to safely remove stacked barrels from the inside of trucks and safely load them onto barrel racks, the Barrel Picker reduces the chance of employee injury from lifting and moving heavy barrels. It mounts and locks to forklift mast and utilizes forklift hydraulic system four valves to control barrel gripping and forward tipping.
Manufactured from 304 stainless steel for sanitation and durability, the barrel picker features quick-connect hydraulic fittings and a quick-connect mast system for easy installation and fast change-overs. The Barrel Picker can be customized to any class of forklift mount. www.tombeard.com
Fine Northern Oak Crosscut Bags provide a precise profile for aging in-tank. The cross-cut staves combine the benefits of toasting large pieces of wood (thermic inertia, retention of raw material quality, and aromatic complexity), with improving yield and speed of the oak compounds’ extraction. brickpackaging.com
Want your beer to look as good as it tastes? Let its personality show with custom labels from StickerYou and provide an unforgettable first impression about your beer to your customers.
Label your beer bombers, growlers, kegs, bottle necks, even bottle caps—use free templates and designs or create something exclusively yours. Choose white or clear, glossy or matte vinyl at any size and shape.
Change your label designs according to a season, holiday, or special occasion. With no minimum quantity requirement, print as many labels as you want. Celebrate the full power of personalization with StickerYou. www.stickeryou.com
New from Wine Secrets, UX-520 is vinifera grape wine with no residual sugar or increased alcohol. Benefits of using this product include:
- Wine Integrity: Your wine is 100% vinifera. The competitors’ juice concentrate additive is made from a hybrid bred with vitis rupestris.
- Wine Consistency: Concentrate additives derived from hybrid grapes presents distinct native characters and significant sugar.
- Operational Efficiency: Filterability isn’t an issue as with juice concentrate additives.
Winesecrets’ highly trained, professional staff will help develop additive trials to demonstrate UX-520 is the best method to achieve the color profile you desire. www.winesecrets.com
Produced to commemorate Prohibition Repeal Day on December 5, Remus Repeal Reserve Series II is a rare, reserve bourbon whiskey that recalls the legendary days of George Remus, “King of the Bootleggers.” Crafted by MGP Ingredients at its 170-year-old distillery in Lawrenceburg, Ind., the medley changes each year, allowing the distillery team to experiment with its cask-aged reserves. Remus Repeal Reserve Series II showcases a signature high rye style and is artfully blended from a medley of two mash bills from 2007/2008, with more than a decade of barrel aging. The complex aroma reveals maple with vanilla, caramel, toasted oak and bold spice, with a harmonious palate of sweet vanilla, caramelized brown spice, smoke, and maple on the finish. GeorgeRemus.com
LX910 is Primera’s fastest-ever desktop color label printer. It can handle labels as wide as 8 inches and as small as 0.75” inches. This latest addition can print a 4-by-3-inch label with 50% coverage in less than 6 seconds. Typical applications include product labels for wine, water, cheese, and hundreds of other specialty and gourmet drinks. Compared to other comparably priced printers, LX910 has a number of distinct advantages including print quality, interchangeable dye or pigment inks, and low maintenance.
