Through our commitment to sustainability, we invested over $20 million into building full-service railyards at our Columbia, SC and Glendale, AZ breweries. One railcar of raw material is the equivalent of four tanker trucks. By reducing the number of trucks on the road, we greatly reduce emissions and the environmental impact in producing our products.

We invested over $5 million into building highly sophisticated laboratories that are foundational to our unrelenting commitment to quality. No expense was spared to outfit the labs with the latest state of the art analytical equipment. Our highly sophisticated equipment measures key product components such as carbohydrate levels in order to optimize the fermentation process. Additionally, we have inline instruments that constantly test our liquid streams for critical components like alcohol and Carbon Dioxide. Our quality lab also analyzes certain flavor components including potential defects which can include visual, aromatic, and taste deficiencies. There are over 800 quality checks that are executed on each case of product before being sent to consumers

The packaging lines have the flexibility to pack cans into single flavor cartons or trays & into variety packs. The lines have the capability to fill various can sizes and can fill 12oz cans at a speed of 1,500 cans per minute or 90,000 per hour. Additionally, each brewery has a unique system in place to create the variety packs onsite, improving the freshness and speed to market of our products. In Glendale, AZ, we have a fully automated system where cans can be filled and packaged directly inline. In Columbia, SC and Hillside, NJ, while there is no direct feed from the filler to the packer, the packers still support a highly automated process. The Columbia, SC Variety Pack systems are the fastest Variety Pack lines in the world.