Premium and craft brands are becoming increasingly popular across many food and beverage groups, from premium water, coffee, and even toast covered corner to corner with avocado. Many people think that craft soda and beer have won over the hearts and taste buds of the millennial crowd only, which although may have been mostly true in the infancy of these brands, today, after years of trying to break into the industry, that is a hearty misconception. The popularity of premium soda, especially, is a phenomenon not limited by age or geography. Continue reading…

You love coffee, but are you familiar with where it comes from? The answer is coffeefruit, the forgotten superfruit and the flesh that surrounds coffee beans. In order to make coffee, the beans are extracted from this fruit, which is typically tossed away. But coffeefruit is actually very healthy and nutritious. In fact, its health benefits make it just as good for you as blueberries, kiwi and other types of superfruit – if not better. Continue reading…

If you’re a beer aficionado like those of us on the team at Columbia Distributing, you probably know quite a bit about the way beer is produced. However, some breweries eschew the standard methods and take up nontraditional approaches to creating your favorite beverage. From mixing up techniques and equipment to incorporating unique ingredients, here are a few of the alternative brewing methods being used throughout the Pacific Northwest. Continue reading…

There are many benefits to the three-tier system that governs the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and mandates that these beverages must travel from producers to distributors and then to retailers before being made available for purchase by the public. However, due to this system, it’s incredibly important for wineries and retailers to choose the right distributor. Continue reading…