The range of scale in this one state is extreme. One facility here publishes no minimum at all and will fill a single bottle. Another runs 1.5 million square feet across seven buildings. They are ninety minutes apart on the same freeway.
California barely publishes its minimums. Of the 39 fixed plants below, 5 state a figure. We checked every one of them directly — this is what the market publishes, not what we could find time to look for. Where a facility says nothing, the cell says Not published.
Published minimums first, then the rest alphabetically. Mobile canners are listed separately below — they work on a different basis and comparing them here would mislead.
| Facility | City | Minimum run | Formats | Alcohol | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chameleon Beverage Company | Commerce | 288 units | PET | — | Water and private label since 1995, roughly 200,000 sq ft. One of only two California plants to publish both a minimum and a lead time. |
| Organic Craft Brewing & Co-packing (OC Brew Pack) | Vista | 1,000 gal / SKU | Can | Yes | Vista, and one of only a handful of plants anywhere that publishes both a minimum and a lead time: 1,000 gallons per SKU, and 6–12 weeks broken down phase by phase — the formulation phase is optional, so arriving with a finished recipe saves two to four weeks. Non-beer RTDs only: kombucha, seltzers, canned cocktails, functional tea. CCOF certified organic and non-GMO, flash pasteurisation, nitrogen dosing. They do alcoholic and non-alcoholic — TTB registered, and their intake form lists hard tea, hard kombucha, spirits-based cocktails and wine-based drinks. One thing to ask first: that form’s smallest run option is “under 1,000 units”, which is an order of magnitude below the 1,000 gallons they publish. ryan@OCBrewPack.com. |
| ProtoPackers | Riverside | 1 unit | Can, PET | — | The smallest published minimum in our entire database. Their words, reconfirmed 29 July: "Solutions for 1 bottle or 10,000." |
| RTD Co-Pack | Oceanside | 1,700 cases / SKU | Can, Can sleek, Glass | Yes | Batches of 4,000–8,000 gallons, tanks to 7,500. Changed domain from beerbeveragecopack.com — same company, same address. |
| Universal Pure | Mira Loma | 20,000 units | PET | — | Not a filler in California. The Mira Loma site does high-pressure processing and cold logistics on already-packaged product. Their filling lines and their published 20,000-bottle minimum are in Nebraska and Connecticut. |
| Anderson Valley Brewing Company | Boonville | Not published | Can, Glass, Keg | Yes | Boonville, brewing since 1987 and contract brewing for other brands since 1995. Three brewhouses side by side — 10, 70 and 100 BBL — and they publish what each one yields packaged: 90, 750 and 1,100 case equivalents. That is not a minimum, and they say so plainly: the minimum depends on which brewhouse fits the project, and comes with the written proposal. But their own quote form offers nothing below 10 BBL, so about ninety cases is the realistic floor here. They file your TTB COLA, publish their licence numbers, and offer a mutual NDA before anything is shared. Beer, cider, RTD cocktails and non-alcoholic — no CBD or cannabis. |
| Anvil Beverage Company | San Diego | Not published | Can, Can 16 oz, Can sleek, Keg | Yes | Not a separate company: it's AleSmith Brewing's contract division, same site. 85 BBL brewhouse, 20 BBL pilot system. |
| BarrelRM | Torrance | Not published | Glass | Yes | Torrance. Spirits and RTD/RTS, private label and contract work, with a “rapid maturation” process they present as their differentiator. They say they handle compliance, but publish no licence, no minimum and no contact address — the enquiry form is the only route in. |
| BevPack LA | Los Angeles | Not published | Can | Yes | Blending, canning, tunnel pasteurisation, labelling, warehousing and ingredient sourcing on one site. |
| Big Brands SoCal Co-Packing | Los Angeles | Not published | Glass, PET, Can, Can sleek | Yes | Claims two LA and two San Diego sites without publishing addresses, across four parallel domains. Broad process list; verify the entity carefully. |
| Bin to Bottle | Napa | Not published | Glass, Can, Bag-in-box | Yes | Custom crush and alcohol co-packing since 2006, ~95,000 sq ft, 194 fermenters, around 60 clients. |
| California Custom Beverage | Los Angeles | Not published | Glass, Can, Can sleek | — | Publishes a lead time instead: 2 to 8 weeks. Still or carbonated, ambient or cold fill. Second site in Pennsylvania. |
| Calpack Foods | Torrance | Not published | Bag-in-box | — | Torrance. A fresh-food co-packer that also bottles beverages — cold coffee, nut milks, chocolate milk, juices and smoothies — alongside salsa, soups and baby food. Says it has “small minimums” without naming one. Owns its own brand, Bettr Natural Foods, and sells a ready-made private-label menu alongside contract work — two different offers, worth separating before you call. Its high-pressure processing is not done on site: they truck product to a partner facility a few miles away. sales@calpackfoods.com. |
| City Brewing Co. | — | Not published | Can, Glass, Keg | Yes | Irwindale, the plant Miller opened in 1980 after moving production from Azusa. Around 75 million cases a year, part of the four-site group that calls itself the largest full-service co-manufacturer in the United States; City agreed in 2021 to buy the 75 acres it stands on. Receives bulk high-proof spirits and wine, batches RTD, energy, FMB, tea, soda and flavoured water. Cans, bottles and kegs. No minimum, lead time or certification published. inquiries@citybrewery.com. |
| Common Collabs | Fullerton | Not published | PET, Glass, Can, Keg | — | Fullerton. A coffee and tea specialist first — they came out of specialty coffee and run a proprietary latent-heat extraction process. Cans, PET, glass, ROPP and kegs, plus concentrates at ratios up to 11:1. Their own site publishes no minimum; the “60k MOQ” figure that circulates comes from their directory listing and does not say 60,000 of what. Ask before assuming. |
| Copacker LA | Los Angeles | Not published | Can, Can 16 oz, Alu bottle | Yes | Small operation — contact runs through a Gmail address. Custom can dimensions on request. |
| DeltaBev | Canoga Park | Not published | Can, Can sleek | — | 45,000 sq ft with on-site storage and 24/7 client access to inventory systems. |
| DrinkPAK | Santa Clarita | Not published | Can, Can sleek, Can 16 oz | Yes | One of the largest sites in our database. 1.5 million sq ft across seven buildings on the California site alone, plus plants in Fort Worth and a Philadelphia site announced for 2027. |
| FRSH Bev | Huntington Beach | Not published | Can | — | Huntington Beach. Organic specialist working in cans, shots and bottles for the health-and-wellness market, with R&D and certification submission alongside the packing. Claims “low MOQs” and volume pricing tiers, and names a figure for neither. |
| Gehl Food & Beverage Lathrop (ex California Natural Products) | Lathrop | Not published | Tetra Pak | Yes | Formerly California Natural Products, part of Gehl Food & Beverage since 2018. 13 aseptic lines: Tetra Prisma from 200 ml to 1 litre, Tetra Brik 1 litre Slim. RTD, plant-based drinks, tea, coffee, wine and spirits. 1250 East Lathrop Road. |
| Gordon Biersch Brew Co | San Jose | Not published | Can, Can sleek, Can 16 oz, Keg | Yes | 127,000 sq ft, 385,000 BBL capacity — about 5.3 million equivalent cases. Publishes no address, phone or email; contact form only. |
| Gravity Wine House | Santa Rosa | Not published | Glass | Yes | Custom crush, ~20,000 sq ft with temperature-controlled barrel rooms. Wine brands only — no cans, no RTD. |
| Headspace Beverage Solutions | Long Beach | Not published | Can | Yes | Long Beach, and the most explicitly startup-facing plant in the state — the phrase is in their own page titles. No minimum published, but their portfolio names a 12-case pilot run for investor sampling at one end and 250,000 cans a month at the other. Eight can sizes, from 200 ml slim to 19.2 oz. Velcorin and nitrogen dosing, tunnel pasteurisation. FDA registered, and ABC-licensed for beer, wine, sake and spirits. |
| HealthVerve Food Manufacturing USA | Rancho Cucamonga | Not published | Can, Can 16 oz | — | Their other plant is in Livingston, Tennessee — a name that has been miscatalogued as Californian elsewhere. The California site is Rancho Cucamonga. |
| Lyons Magnus | Fresno | Not published | Not published | — | Large high-acid plant for shelf-stable juice, lemonade and smoothie bases. Packaging formats are not published on their own site. |
| Matrix Bottling Group | Los Angeles | Not published | Glass, PET, Alu bottle | No | Group capacity over 100 million bottles a month across three plants. The alcohol capability sits at their North Carolina plant, not Los Angeles. |
| Newcastle Beverage | Industry | Not published | Not published | No | Ready-to-drink co-packing: juice, hot-fill and non-alcoholic formulated drinks. |
| Newport Bottling & Canning | Anaheim | 25,000 units / SKUdeclared, not published | Can, PET, Glass | Yes | Backed by a flavour house with 40 years in flavour chemistry, which is why formulation sits alongside filling here. |
| Niagara Bottling | Diamond Bar | Not published | PET | No | Diamond Bar — and that is the corporate headquarters, not a plant. Family-owned since 1963 and one of the largest water bottlers in the country, they publish a private brand and contract manufacturing offer across every category: purified, spring, distilled, infant, alkaline and sparkling water from 8 oz to a gallon, vitamin waters and ready-to-drink tea, and aseptic 12 and 32 oz for protein shakes and juice with high and low acid capability. What they do not publish is where any of it happens — their site says only “geographically diversified production facilities throughout the United States”. Ask which plant would run your product before you assume California. No minimum published; enquiries go through their form, department Contract Manufacturing. |
| Pacific Coast Spirits | Oceanside | Not published | Glass | Yes | Oceanside. Grain-to-glass craft distillery with a contract distilling page, but read the whole offer before you plan around it: their own description is Distillery — Tasting Room — Kitchen & Craft Bar. Contract production is a side door, not the main business. No minimum, lead time or technical capacity published. |
| Prestige Bottling Company | Napa | Not published | Glass | Yes | Fully bonded, wine only, serving Napa Valley. |
| Private Spring Water | San Martin | Not published | PET | — | Private-label spring water with label design and printing done in-house. |
| Redwood Beverage Group | West Sacramento | Not published | Glass, PET, Can, Tetra Pak | — | West Sacramento, and one of the largest plants in the state: around 450,000 sq ft, five production lines plus two variety-pack lines, cold and hot fill in glass and PET, canning at 1,800+ per minute, aseptic Tetra Pak, and a 400,000 sq ft refrigerated distribution centre. Says it runs startup test runs — but doesn’t say at what size. Corrected on 30 August 2026: we had this plant in Connecticut. Their own contact page puts the head office on Stone Blvd in West Sacramento. sales@redwoodbevgroup.com. |
| SIP Manufacturing | Lake Elsinore | Not published | Can, Can sleek, Can 16 oz, PET, Alu bottle, Glass | Yes | Wide format range. Expanding out of state — 515,000 sq ft announced in Mississippi and a site in Idaho, so confirm California capacity when you call. |
| Sonoma Beverage Company | Santa Rosa | Not published | Can, Can sleek, Glass | — | The name misleads: the plant is in Santa Rosa, not Sonoma. Soda and carbonated drinks, with cold storage. |
| Strategic Beverage Services (BevZero) | Santa Rosa | Not published | Glass, Can | Yes | Santa Rosa. Dealcoholization below 0.05% abv, alcohol reduction, product development, white and private label. Bought BevZero’s US operations in August 2026 and calls itself the country’s largest dealcoholization provider. |
| The Bainbridge Beverage Company | West Sacramento | Not published | Glass, PET | No | West Sacramento, sharing a refrigerated building with their HPP partner American Pasteurization Company — which is where the high-pressure step actually happens, rather than on a line of their own. Cold-press juicing, blending and bottling of fresh fruit and vegetables, with private label, labelling, shrink-wrapping, overnight sample shipping and weekend service. They present the west-coast plant as a shelf-life argument: bottling here removes the cross-country transit. Head office and second plant are in Coloma, Michigan, on our Michigan page. Their contact form accepts products still in development. No minimum published, and their apex domain serves a broken certificate. |
| VBC Bottling Co (Varni Brothers Corporation) | Modesto | Not published | Can | Yes | Their homepage is currently serving spam — a fake storefront unrelated to the business — while the inner pages work normally. The company is real; the site appears compromised. Reach them by phone. |
| Well Above Bottling and Canning | Roseville | Not published | Can | — | Roseville, and the most certified plant we have added recently: SQF, NSF and HACCP, stated on their own site. Three bottling lines and one canning line, running sparkling, still and spirit-free “alcohol replacement” drinks. UHT/HTST, UV pasteurisation, and a filtration system they say removes PFAS and micro-plastics — the only plant here to claim it. No minimum published. sales@wellabovebc.com. |
California has more mobile canning operators than any other state we've mapped. They don't have a minimum in cases — they have a day rate and a volume ceiling per visit — so they belong in their own table.
| Operator | Base | Service area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes We Can Mobile Solutions | Pittsburg | North Bay | Publishes no address either. The state business registry gives Pittsburg, but their phone is a 707 North Bay number — verify before you book. |
| 2M Canning | Lodi | Northern & Central CA | 12 oz, 16 oz, 19.2 oz and 375 ml, with labelling. |
| Boomhut Mobile Canning | Thousand Oaks | Central & Southern CA | Five-head Wild Goose, up to 75 barrels a day, nitrogen dosing for wine. |
| Case By Case Canning | Los Angeles | Southern California | Counter-pressure filling on site, with seam inspection and Velcorin dosing. |
| Mercenary Canning Solutions | San Luis Obispo | Bay Area to Central Coast | Up to 50 cans a minute. Runs both mobile canning and fixed co-packing — the only one here that does both. |
| Mobile West Canning | Poway | San Diego, AZ, south NV | Beer only. Publishes no address — the Poway location comes from third-party directories. |
| The Can Van | Sacramento | Northern California | Born in San Francisco. Beer, wine, cider and RTD cocktails. |
Most states cluster around a size. California doesn't. ProtoPackers in Riverside advertises no minimum and will fill a single bottle. DrinkPAK in Santa Clarita runs 1.5 million square feet across seven buildings. Both serve third-party brands, and they are an hour and a half apart.
That matters practically: whatever your run size, something in California fits it. It also means the state is a poor place to generalise from — a quote from one facility here tells you almost nothing about the next.
What California is not: a place that publishes numbers. 5 of 39 fixed plants state a minimum. Florida publishes far more relative to its size, which is why our lowest-minimum work started there.
Napa, Santa Rosa and the surrounding valleys hold something no other state has: contract facilities built for wine rather than adapted to it. Bin to Bottle and Prestige Bottling in Napa, Gravity Wine House in Santa Rosa — all bonded, all wine-first.
Bin to Bottle also fills cans and bag-in-box for RTD and spirits, which makes it the bridge between the wine world and canned cocktails. The other two are wine only.
If you're launching a canned wine or a wine-based RTD, this corridor is a shorter list to work than anywhere else in the country.
Gehl Food & Beverage Lathrop, formerly California Natural Products, is an aseptic carton plant: 13 aseptic lines filling Tetra Prisma and Tetra Brik cartons, for RTD drinks, tea, coffee, wine and spirits.
VBC Bottling — the homepage currently serves an unrelated spam storefront while inner pages work normally. The company is real and operating; the website appears compromised. Use the phone.
Universal Pure — appears in California searches, but the Mira Loma site does high-pressure processing and cold storage, not filling. Their fillers are in Nebraska and Connecticut.
Power Brands — a beverage development consultancy that places production with partner plants rather than running its own line. Useful if you want a partner to manage the project; not the answer if you want to talk to the facility directly.
Across the country, only 38 of the 234 facilities we track publish a minimum at all. California is not unusual in staying quiet — it's just the largest example.
With 46 facilities in the state and almost no published minimums, calling around blind is expensive. Tell us the product and the volume and we'll come back with the ones that actually match.