Straight answers about co-packing with UBC.

A beverage co-packer (contract packer) manufactures and packages a drink on behalf of the brand that owns it. The brand keeps the recipe, trademark, and customers; the co-packer supplies the facility, equipment, process expertise, and often ingredient sourcing. Upstate Beverage Consultants is a boutique co-packer in Greenville, South Carolina that handles formulation, aluminum canning, sourcing, and supply chain for non-alcoholic brands.

Non-alcoholic beverages in aluminum cans: functional drinks, hemp-derived THC and CBD beverages, sparkling and still soft drinks, ready-to-drink coffee and tea, and non-alcoholic alternatives. If your product needs a still or carbonated fill in a can, it is likely in scope.

Our facility is at 6 Whitlee Ct, Greenville, South Carolina 29607, roughly two hours from Charlotte and Atlanta. Most of the brands we produce for are in the Carolinas, Florida, and the wider Southeast, and we also produce for brands based as far away as New England, Texas, and Montana.

Upstate Beverage Consultants runs 12 oz sleek cans most often, plus 12 oz standard, 8 oz sleek, and 16 oz standard aluminum cans, and 750 ml bottles. Ask about other formats when you submit a project; some are possible with lead time.

Runs start around 2,500 cans. A typical client run at Upstate Beverage Consultants is about 20,000 cans, and our largest clients run 100,000 to 250,000 cans at a time, so a first run and a scaled brand fit on the same line.

Yes. About 20,000 cans is a typical client run at Upstate Beverage Consultants in Greenville, SC. Cans pack 24 to a case, so 20,000 cans is roughly 833 cases or 8 pallets of 12 oz sleek cans.

Every run is logged: pre-op inspection, scale and pH calibration, seam and seal checks, finished-product pH, dissolved oxygen and CO2, and a pre-shipment review. Product is held until the lab certificate of analysis clears, typically 3 to 5 days, which matters for dosed hemp THC beverages.

Both work. If you have a finished formula we scale it to our line. If you have a concept or a kitchen-stage recipe, our R&D and flavor formulation service turns it into a production-ready specification, including shelf-life and process-authority planning where required.

Submit the project form on this site. It takes about four minutes and asks for beverage type, packaging format, estimated batch size, and timeline. If the project is a fit, you book an exploratory call with our team and receive a written quote after that call.

Yes. We work with emerging brands doing their first production run and with established brands moving off large co-packers. We are selective about fit, so the qualification form asks about volume and timeline up front.

Yes. Hemp-derived THC and CBD beverages are a specialty, and most of the brands we produce for are hemp THC brands. We validate dosing on a pilot run, log QC on every run, and hold product until the lab COA clears. Note that the federal hemp definition changes on December 11, 2026; see our hemp THC page for the current status.

Not today. Upstate Beverage Consultants does not currently have tunnel pasteurization in Greenville. Whether a product needs it depends on pH, ingredients, and shelf-life target, so we assess that during formulation review and tell you up front if your product is not a fit for our line.

Upstate Beverage Consultants fills pre-printed aluminum cans, most often 12 oz sleek, plus 12 oz standard, 8 oz sleek, and 16 oz standard. Printed cans carry a can-maker minimum and lead time, so we plan the can order around your run size before materials are bought.

Either side can. Many clients have us source cans, ends, trays, and ingredients through our supplier relationships; others supply their own. Client-supplied materials are received against a purchase order and tracked by lot.