Thank you to all of our entrants to the Beverage Digest 2021 Awards.

Congratulations to our finalists and our winners, who were selected from among over 160 entrants.

WINNERS

 

 

Finalists

Congratulations to this year's finalists.

Best Low/No Sugar Drink

• DRY Soda Co. - DRY Botanical Bitters & Soda
• Live Beverages - Live Probiotic Tea Shots
• Nixie - Nixie Sparkling Water
• Spindrift - Spindrift Lemonades
• Swoon - Zero Sugar Classics

Best Ready-to-Drink Functional Drink

• Live Beverages - Live Probiotic Tea Shots
• PepsiCo - Evolve Plant-Based Protein
• PepsiCo - TAZO CALM Iced Herbal Tea
• Perrier - Perrier Energize
• Poppi - Poppi

Best Powdered Functional Drink

• Hertime by Mixhers
• Inner Mongolia Yili Group Co., Ltd - Jinlingguan Zhenhu Infant Formula Milk Powder
• Inner Mongolia Yili Group Co., Ltd - Xinhou Shutang Formula Powder
• Inner Mongolia Yili Group Co., Ltd - Yili ?TOORAN™ ? Black Milk Powder
• Ultima Replenisher - Mocktini Variety Pack

Best CBD/Hemp Drink

• DEFY - DEFY Recover CBD Beverage
• Hillview Med - Kaló Hemp Seltzer
• K-Zen Beverages - Mad Lilly Spritzer 'Passion Fruit Mango'
• K-Zen Beverages - S*Shots 'Watermelon Punch'
• Miraflora - Miraflora's Hemp Infusions Sparkling Beverages

Best Hard Seltzer

• Boston Beer Company - HARD MTN DEW
• Spindrift - Spindrift® Spiked Half and Half
• Spindrift - Spindrift® Spiked Lime
• Spindrift - Spindrift® Spiked Mango
• Spindrift - Spindrift® Spiked Pineapple
• The Italian Seltzer Company - Mulberry Street
• Truly - Truly Iced Tea Hard Seltzer

Best Premium Drink

• Essentia Water - 2 Gallon Box
• Hoplark - Hoplark Craft Brewed Sparkling Water
• Mixhers - Mixhers Herpower
• The Coca-Cola Company - smartwater+
• ZenWTR - ZenWTR

Best New Brand

• Barcode - Barcode
• DEFY - DEFY pH 9.5+ Alkaline Water - Hydrating Humanity
• Herlove by Mixhers
• Hope and Sesame - Hope and Sesame
• SLIQ Spirited Ice - SLIQ Spirited Ice

Best Marketing/Social Media Campaign

• FIJI Water - FIJI Water
• Liquid Death - Hawk Blood Deck
• PepsiCo - K-Pepsi
• PepsiCo - Pure Leaf "No is Beautiful"
• Spindrift Spiked - "IYKYK" (If You Know You Know)

Best New Drink Concept

• Essentia Water - 2 Gallon Box
• Hertime by Mixhers
• Hope and Sesame - Hope and Sesame Barista Blend
• Live Beverages - Live Probiotic Tea Shots
• SLIQ Spirited Ice - SLIQ Spirited Ice

Best Technology Innovation

• Inner Mongolia Yili Group Co., Ltd - Youngfun Milk Bubble
• Nirvana Water Sciences Corp - Nirvana HMB
• NotCo - NotMilk™ Chocolate
• PepsiCo - Gatorade Gx Sweat Patch
• PepsiCo - Soda Stream Professional

Best Brand Extension

• DRY Soda Co. - DRY Botanical Bubbly Reserve
• Inner Mongolia Yili Group Co., Ltd - Youngfun Milk Bubble
• PepsiCo - Bubly Bounce
• Resync - Resync
• Steaz - Steaz Antioxidant Brew Yerba Mate

Best Packaging/Label Design

• Liquid Death - Liquid Death Mountain Water
• New Hokkaido Beverage Company - New Hokkaido Hard Craft Seltzer
• PepsiCo - Pepsi Culture Can LTO - Mexico
• PepsiCo - Pepsi Culture Can Series
• Poppi - Poppi

 

 

Entry Criteria

All products entered must have been launched, created, or rebranded no earlier than January 2019.

If you have a product that is not yet in the market, it can still be entered as long as it is in its prototype/packaging stage by the closing date of this awards program.

 

Entry Fees and Deadlines

Entries are now closed for Beverage Digest Awards 2021. Winners will be announced at the Beverage Digest Future Smarts Conference on December 6, 2021

 

 

Our panel of industry experts will independently review each submission against the judging criteria. They will score each entry on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) for each criterion and offer feedback or comments. Scores are then collated to reveal the finalists and winners in each category.