Two Options for Businesses Bottling Cider
Launching a business bottling cider and and have large growth goals for your emerging venture?
When you’re first launching your beverage or cider brand, it’s likely you’ve started with just your product, some funky packaging, and a lot of love for what you’ve created. To manufacture your product on a consistent and regular basis is another challenge. The machinery required for bottling cider can require huge capital and expert staff with knowledge of operating particular made-for-purpose machinery. For a start-up brand or company, this can be a serious barrier to entry. In this article we explore the pros and cons of entry-point cider bottling options for new beverage brands and business to consider.
Cider Bottling Option #1
The first option to bottling cider is to hire a portable or mobile cider bottling line when required. Companies who offer this service bring their equipment and skilled staff to the site. This enables a company to control all aspects of the bottling and packaging process and also hire the equipment only when needed.
These mobiles cider bottling lines are best suited to smaller production runs and typically only offer standard bottle sizes. The area of caution with this option is that it requires a high level of organisation and efficiency in predicting the demand of the new product and arranging production to ensure the machine is available for hire when needed.
Cider Bottling Option #2
The second option available is to outsource the packaging of your product by engaging with a contract bottler. Contract cider bottlers are experts in operating machinery as well as bottling cider in a variety of formats. They also already have all the equipment on site which means there is no capital outlay for your brand. Given the expertise contract bottlers have, they are also able to ensure your product is produced up to specification every time.
Further, some contract bottlers can also prepare products, requiring a brand to simply share their recipe and have the experts match the flavour, colour, and taste profile before sending it to packaging. Scheduling space on a third-party production line also requires effective planning and scheduling to obtain the bottling line space when your demand needs it.
Idyll are experts in bottling cider and offer these services to companies all over the world. Contact us today to learn more.