Artificial Vs. Natural Color: What Makes Sense for Your Next Product?

Drinking a beverage is a multi-sensory experience, starting with sight. Consumers associate the color of a beverage primarily with taste profile, but depending on color intensity it can also flag [...]

What’s big in beverages? Health, innovation and sustainability

What’s driving the beverage industry forward into 2018? Here, we take a look at the biggest trend in the industry – and how they can be expected to develop. 1) Health and wellness We [...]

Hyper-personalized Beverages

Health and wellness was one of the top trends driving new product innovation in 2017. Sugar reduction, functional health benefits and sustainability also had a strong influence on new food and [...]

Ingredients to Watch: The Future of Function

There’s been a lot of buzz in the beverage industry around the “F” word the last few years. By this, of course, I mean function. Inherently beneficial ingredients, as opposed to ones used for [...]

Fermentation Sensation: Tepache (te-pahtch-ay)

On a typical night out in Chicago, we saw a not so typical menu offering – tepache, courtesy of Proxi. At Imbibe, we have been watching the fermentation craze for years. The list of [...]