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Wicked Weed Brewing’s new bottle design takes home glass packaging award

October 26, 2017Pretty Much a Press Release

Congrats to Wicked Weed Brewing for continuing to be the winner you don’t particularly like. Not only has the Asheville-based brewing company won the lottery by joining the AB InBev armada, but now it’s also taking home another award — the Glass Packaging Institute‘s (GPI) Clear Choice Award in the Beer and Cider Category for its unique glass bottle manufactured by Ardagh Group.

Wicked weed beer bottle design
©Copyright, John Burwell | BurwellPhotography.com, all rights reserved.

Beginning at the neck of the bottle, an embossed hop plant brings the design to a clean finish, and the amber glass preserves the mouth-watering taste of cucumber with a hint of juniper berries in this golden ale. In a mix of brisk basil and freshly grown cucumbers, Coolcumber set out to replicate summer in a bottle.

Wicked Weed Brewing’s “bottle and branding are a tactile extravaganza. The hop texture on the bottle and sophisticated label tells the brand story well,” were a few of the judges notes.

The winning glass containers were selected by an independent panel of food and beverage packaging professionals:

  • Tom Bobak, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, American Craft Beer;
  • Peter Chamberlain, Associate Director, Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design, University of Cincinnati;
  • Geoff Kleinman, Editor, DrinkSpirits.com; and
  • Denise Purcell, Head of Content for the Specialty Food Association.
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  1. Steven Williams says

    October 29, 2017 at 9:36 am

    Isaac do you guys do Any cool bottles?

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  2. Jon Untiedt says

    October 26, 2017 at 5:39 pm

    Sold out! met a couple of people that worked at WW. They were passionate about their craft. Can’t possibly be as passionate when the craft disappears. Sell outs, lotta losers there ????

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    • Jon Untiedt says

      October 26, 2017 at 5:40 pm

      Oh, and who gives a rats ass about the bottle? The magic comes from “the craft” inside!

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  3. Mark L. Curtis says

    October 26, 2017 at 2:50 pm

    Won the lottery? So you’re saying you’re in support of them being bought by ABinBev?

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    • John Wanner says

      October 26, 2017 at 6:30 pm

      Pretty sure Craft Brewing Business is being sarcastic here. They are clearly anti AB-InBev.

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    • Mark L. Curtis says

      October 26, 2017 at 6:32 pm

      Yeah, I would hope, but the tone of the post doesn’t exactly come off that way. I mean, why would you even post about them anymore.

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