Your Unique Formula for Beverage Success
Commercial beverage formulas ensure that beverages look and taste exactly as intended every time it’s produced at a large scale. A properly developed formula will also maximize manufacturing and supply chain resources, helping you create a sustainable, competitive advantage.
Let Our Beverage Formulation Consultants Give You the Advantage of a Winning Formula
Many people don’t realize the number of decisions and insights it takes to create a commercial formula. Every decision impacts manufacturing feasibility, costs, packaging feasibility, tax implications, regulations, claims, consumer messaging, and many other factors that will affect your business in the short and long term.
BevSource specializes in guiding you through the formulation process. Whether you need RTD beverages, functional drinks, or energy drink formulas, we will ensure you end up with a commercial recipe that produces a high-quality beverage that’s cost-effective, competitive, and aligned with your vision. Your final formulation and Statement of Process are your intellectual property, and they will serve as a major contributor to your beverage’s success.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A. Yes – once we understand the vision you have for your beverage, we will identify the right flavor house to develop formula options for your beverage platform. We will work with you through the process to help you finalize a formula and make sure it is copacker ready. We also make sure you are fully aware of all the downstream implications of your chosen formula, including costs, packaging functionality, in the case of alcoholic beverages, tax implications.
A. Yes – BevSource will review your formulation and ensure that it is ready for a commercial packer to produce. We can also help you fine-tune the product specifications to ensure that your finished product will deliver the taste and consumer experience you want to deliver.
A. You do. Neither BevSource nor the flavor house that develops the formula will have any rights to your formula – you will always own it.
A. You’ll need between $20,000 to $45,000* to start turning your beverage concept into reality. Our beverage development experts will help guide you through the process of beverage formulation, giving you the insights, data, and commercial formula that you’ll need to take the next steps in your journey, whether that’s doing focus groups, getting samples in front of buyers or pitching investors. The costs at this stage depend on the number of SKUs you plan on formulating, the type of beverage, and whether you want to invest in a pilot run before moving into full production.
*Estimated Costs Only. Other factors and your number of SKUs can influence your final costs
