14 facilities, from a 1946 family bottler in the Hudson Valley to a Finger Lakes custom crush that ferments wine for other people's brands. Only 3 of them put a minimum run on their own website, in a state with 14 facilities.
The published minimums first, then the rest alphabetically. Two additional facilities we found in New York are not listed here: one whose founder's obituary describes the business in the past tense, and one whose entire website has returned 404 for weeks with no independent confirmation it has closed. We don't publish a facility as active until that's resolved.
| Facility | City | Minimum run | Formats | Alcohol | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adirondack Bottling (Polar Beverages CM) | Scotia | Not published | PET, Can | No | Cold-fill cans plus hot-fill large formats, on soda, water, cold brew, tea, energy and juice. Kosher and organic-certified lines, four US distribution centers. No minimum, lead time or alcohol capability on record. |
| Best Bev | Waverly | Not published | Can, Can sleek | Yes | 130,000 sq ft plant, expandable to 200,000, with two high-speed can lines and three variety-pack lines. A third-party listing says "no order too small or too large" — a claim, not a published number. |
| Brooklyn Bottling Group | Milton | Not published | PET, Glass, Can | — | Milton, in the Hudson Valley, despite the name — the legal entity is Brooklyn Bottling of Milton, New York. Family-run since 1946, 240,000 sq ft, house brands include Tropical Fantasy. One of the few here to publish its lines format by format: cold-fill PET in 1 and 2 litre plus 20 oz carbonated glass, hot-fill PET from 16 to 64 oz, a glass line cold at 12 oz and hot at 14 and 16 oz, and a can line running both hot and cold at 12 and 16 oz. Kosher (OU) and USDA Organic. Says small & large scale production flexibility without naming a figure. |
| Bushwick Bottling | Brooklyn | Not published | Glass | No | Brooklyn, and the narrowest published offer on this page — which is a virtue. One format only: the 12 oz longneck glass bottle, crown-capped, in 12 and 24 packs. Non-alcoholic RTDs, carbonated or still, cold fill and hot fill, tunnel pasteurisation. OU Kosher and FDA registered. Says its minimums are low without naming one. Also does rework and frozen warehousing, neither of which anyone else here offers. |
| Clinton's Ditch Cooperative Co. | Cicero | Not published | Can, PET | No | Cooperative bottler since 1968, cold-fill only — no hot fill or aseptic. Private-label soda, seltzer, water, energy and tea, mostly for PepsiCo brands, which implies high volume without a published figure. |
| East Coast Crush & Co-Pack | Naples | 2,500 gal | Glass, Can, Keg, Pouch | Yes | Naples, in the Finger Lakes. Custom crush and co-packing for wine, cider and spirits — winemaking for other people’s brands, not just filling. The only east-coast fermentation capability in this database. Their FAQ answers it plainly: minimum batch size 2,500 gallons — while the packaging minimum, they say, varies project by project. Six filling lines, cans from 100 ml to 20 oz, no pasteurisation (sorbate, benzoate and sterile filtration instead). Read at source on 22 August 2026. |
| Empire Beverage Solutions | Speonk | Not published | Glass, PET | Yes | TTB COLA support and formula approval in-house, plus a library of 1,000+ flavors. Their own site says Ultra-Low Minimums without naming one — a marketing line, not a figure we can publish, and the exact question to put to them first. |
| Great South Bay Brewery | Bay Shore | 30 barrels | Can, Can 16 oz | Yes | 30 bbl is their own unit; the gallon equivalent is our arithmetic, not their commitment. Annual capacity of 585,000 cases, tunnel pasteurisation, nitrogen dosing for still drinks, and an in-house alcohol lab. |
| Mayer Brothers | West Seneca | Not published | PET, Glass | No | Family bottler since 1852, over 25M cases/year capacity, in-house bottle blowing. Juice, cider, lemonade and water, SQF Level 3 certified. Full service from label to pallet to ship. |
| Meier's Creek Brewing Company | Cazenovia | Not published | Can, Can 16 oz, Keg | Yes | Farm brewery quoting by half-, quarter- and sixth-barrel keg or can pack via a request form rather than a published floor. Cold storage and stock management included. |
| Micropackers Inc | Island Park | 5 gal | Can | — | Island Park, and the smallest entry point in this database alongside ProtoPackers. Asked their own FAQ what their MOQs are, they answer “we don’t have any” — runs go from 5 gallons to 500. Carbonated products only for now, standard cans 8–16 oz, shelf-stable and pasteurised. They publish a lead time (4–6 weeks) and a flat price that does not fall with volume, and they refer you elsewhere once you outgrow them. The co-packing arm of Fresh Fizz Sodas. yoni@micropackers.com. |
| Ninth Planet Beverage Solutions | Saratoga Springs | Not published | Can, Can sleek, Can 16 oz | Yes | Can-only specialist, up to 350 cans/minute, SQF certified with organic and kosher available. Publishes eleven can formats, 200 ml to 19.2 oz — the widest range on this page — plus batch and tunnel pasteurisation and nitrogen dosing. Says runs can be as small as a few cans: no number attached, so it stays unpublished here, but it is the lowest small-batch claim in the database. |
| North American Breweries (Genesee Brewery, ex-FIFCO USA) | Rochester | Not published | Glass, Can, Can sleek, Can 16 oz, Keg | Yes | Over $210M invested in 15 years, capacity above 500,000 cases/year, flash and tunnel pasteurisation. No sales email published — contact form only, 48-hour response promised. Sold by Heineken to Saothair Capital Partners on 3 September 2026 and reverting to its former name; the announcement keeps full-service contract brewing. Its site still trades as FIFCO USA, so we carry both names. |
| Sterling Beverage Company | Buffalo | Not published | Can, Can sleek, Can 16 oz | — | Renamed and relocated within Buffalo; the old domain now redirects to the new one. Kombucha, tea and juice in private label. Site renders in JavaScript, so some details remain unverified. |
Downstate and the Hudson Valley run on scale: Brooklyn Bottling (1946), Mayer Brothers (1852) and Adirondack Bottling — Polar's contract division — each move millions of cases a year of private-label soda, juice and water. None of them publish a minimum; at that volume, the conversation likely starts well above what a first-time brand needs anyway.
Upstate is craft alcohol: the Genesee Brewery in Rochester, Meier's Creek near Syracuse, Ninth Planet in Saratoga Springs, and Great South Bay out on Long Island. These are exactly the kind of facilities that publish minimums in Wisconsin — but here, only Great South Bay does.
The practical read: if you're a large, established brand, New York's scale bottlers can likely take you regardless of the missing numbers. If you're small and shopping by minimum run, you'll be making calls that Wisconsin's 3 transparent breweries would have saved you.
Across the 234 facilities we track nationally, about one in six publishes a minimum. New York publishes 3 of 14 — above the national rate, in a state where 7 of the 14 facilities are alcohol-capable.
Compare it with Wisconsin: also craft-brewing-heavy, also ten-plus facilities, but 3 of 11 publish. Or Pennsylvania, next door: 1 of 11 — below New York.
A state with this much brewing history and this little published data tells you something too: ask for the minimum on the first call, because the website won't have it.
Great South Bay's 30 barrels is published in their own unit; the ~930-gallon figure alongside it is our conversion, not a number the brewery states. Ask for their unit when you call.
"Very low minimums" and "as small as a few cans" appear on Empire Beverage Solutions' and Ninth Planet's own sites — real claims, but neither names a figure. We don't convert marketing language into a published number, so both show as not published here.
Tell us the product and the volume. We come back with the facilities that can actually run it — including the 11 here that don't publish a number.