The widest range of scale in the country sits in one state. 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 28 fixed plants below, three 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProtoPackers | Riverside | No minimum | Can, PET | Not published | The smallest published minimum in our entire database. Their words, reconfirmed 29 July: "Solutions for 1 bottle or 10,000." |
| Chameleon Beverage | Commerce | 288 bottles12 cases · 3-week lead | PET | Not published | 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. |
| RTD Co-Packex Beer & Beverage Copack | Oceanside | 1,700 casesor 4,000 gal / SKU | Can, glass | Beer, wine, seltzer | Batches of 4,000–8,000 gallons, tanks to 7,500. Changed domain from beerbeveragecopack.com — same company, same address. |
| Anderson Valley Brewing | Boonville | Not published | Can, glass, keg | Beer, cider, RTD | Three brewhouses — 10, 70 and 100 BBL — up to 40,000 BBL a year. Says openly the minimum depends on which brewhouse you use. |
| Anvil BeverageAleSmith's contract arm | San Diego | Not published | Can, keg | Beer, cider, seltzer | Not a separate company: it's AleSmith Brewing's contract division, same site. 85 BBL brewhouse, 20 BBL pilot system. |
| BevPack LA | Los Angeles | Not published | Can | Yes | Blending, canning, tunnel pasteurisation, labelling, warehousing and ingredient sourcing on one site. |
| Big Brands SoCal | LA + San Diego | Not published | Glass, PET, can | Spirits, wine | 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 | Can, bag-in-box | Wine, RTD, spirits | 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 | Not published | Publishes a lead time instead: 2 to 8 weeks. Still or carbonated, ambient or cold fill. Second site in Pennsylvania. |
| California Natural Products | Lathrop | Not published | Not verified | Not published | We could not read their site. The SSL certificate on cnp.com has expired and the page is blocked. Nothing here is first-hand — treat with caution and contact them directly. |
| Copacker LA | Los Angeles | Not published | Can 8–32 oz, alu bottle | Beer | Small operation — contact runs through a Gmail address. Custom can dimensions on request. |
| DeltaBev | Canoga Park | Not published | Can 8–12 oz | Not published | 45,000 sq ft with on-site storage and 24/7 client access to inventory systems. |
| DrinkPAK | Santa Clarita | Not published | Can, all formats | Spirits, beer, wine | The largest facility 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. |
| Gordon Biersch Brew Co | San Jose | Not published | Can, keg | Beer, cider, RTD | 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 | Wine only | Custom crush, ~20,000 sq ft with temperature-controlled barrel rooms. Wine brands only — no cans, no RTD. |
| HealthVerve | Rancho Cucamonga | Not published | Can | Not published | 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 | 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 | — see notes | 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 | City of Industry | Not published | Not published | — | Ready-to-drink co-packing: juice, hot-fill and non-alcoholic formulated drinks. |
| Newport Bottling & Canning | Anaheim | Not published | Can | Yes | Backed by a flavour house with 40 years in flavour chemistry, which is why formulation sits alongside filling here. |
| Pacific Coast Spirits | Oceanside | Not published | Glass | Spirits | Grain-to-glass craft distillery with a contract distilling page. No technical capacity published. |
| Power Brands | Sherman Oaks | Not published | Can, PET, glass, pouch | Yes | A development consultancy, not a plant. They place production with partner facilities. Their site quotes a generic 2,000–5,000 case market range — that is not their own minimum, so we don't record it as one. Lead time published: 12 weeks. |
| Prestige Bottling | Napa | Not published | Glass | Wine only | 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. |
| SIP Manufacturing | Lake Elsinore | Not published | Can 7.5–24 oz, PET, alu | Seltzer, wine, spirits | 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, glass | Not published | The name misleads: the plant is in Santa Rosa, not Sonoma. Soda and carbonated drinks, with cold storage. |
| Universal PureMira Loma site | Mira Loma | Not applicable | — | Not published | 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. |
| VBC Bottling CoVarni Brothers | Modesto | Not published | Can | Spirits, wine | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Can Van | Sacramento | Northern California | Born in San Francisco. Beer, wine, cider and RTD cocktails. |
| 2M Canning | Lodi | Northern & Central CA | 12 oz, 16 oz, 19.2 oz and 375 ml, with labelling. |
| Mercenary Canning | 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. |
| 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. |
| Mobile West Canning | Poway | San Diego, AZ, south NV | Beer only. Publishes no address — the Poway location comes from third-party directories. |
| 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. |
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. Three of 28 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.
California Natural Products — we could not read their site at all. The SSL certificate on cnp.com has expired and browsers block the page. Nothing we hold on them is first-hand.
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 29 of the 221 facilities we track publish a minimum at all. California is not unusual in staying quiet — it's just the largest example.
With 35 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.
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