Three facilities, and one of them publishes a minimum of a hundred bottles — among the smallest figures anywhere in this database, and low enough to change what a first run costs.
Palmetto Distillery publishes 100 bottles on its own site. The other two publish nothing, so the cell says so.
| Facility | City | Minimum run | Formats | Alcohol | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmetto Distillery | Anderson | 100 units | Glass | Yes | Anderson. Distillery offering private label and contract bottling for whiskey, rum, gin, vodka and RTD cocktails, with organic and non-GMO options. Publishes a minimum of 100 bottles; verified at source. |
| Steel Hands Brewing | Cayce | Not published | Can, Can 16 oz, Keg | Yes | Cayce, near Columbia. Contract brewing for selected clients — 12 and 16 oz cans plus kegs, full lab, centrifuge. Capacity reported up to 15,000 barrels a year; the contract offer is confirmed through trade sources rather than their own site. |
| Tekna Fill | Cowpens | Not published | PET, Glass, Pouch | — | Cowpens. Contract manufacturing and packaging for liquids, powders and creams, from one ounce to five gallons, in sachets, pouches and bottles. Beverage is one category among several — low confidence for drinks work. |
Palmetto Distillery in Anderson runs private label and contract bottling for whiskey, rum, gin, vodka and RTD cocktails, with organic and non-GMO options, and publishes a minimum of a hundred bottles. Concept work, flavour testing, batching, bottling and quality control are all listed.
At that level the arithmetic stops resembling co-packing and starts resembling a pilot batch. A brand can put a real product in real bottles in front of a buyer without committing to a pallet of stock it may never sell.
The trade-off is unit cost. A hundred bottles will never carry the per-unit economics of ten thousand, and a distillery that will run a hundred is selling you access, not efficiency. That is the right trade for a launch and the wrong one for a reorder.
Steel Hands Brewing in Cayce, near Columbia, contract-brews for selected clients: 12 and 16 oz cans plus kegs, a full lab and a centrifuge, with capacity reported up to 15,000 barrels a year. The contract offer is confirmed through trade sources and press rather than prominently on their own site.
Tekna Fill in Cowpens is a boutique contract filler handling liquids, powders and creams from one ounce to five gallons. Beverage is listed among its categories rather than being its focus, which is why we hold it at low confidence for drinks work.
That leaves South Carolina thin outside spirits and beer. If you are making a canned functional drink or a juice, expect to look at North Carolina or Georgia.
The 100-bottle minimum is for bottled spirits, not for cans. It is published by a distillery for its bottling line. Do not carry the figure across to a different format or a different category — ask them what applies to your product.
Confirm Tekna Fill actually wants beverage work. It is a capable filler, but drinks sit alongside powders and creams on its list rather than at the centre of it. One direct question will settle whether it belongs on your shortlist.
Tell us the product and the volume. One South Carolina facility publishes a hundred-bottle minimum and two publish nothing — this is the fastest way to find out which of them fits what you are making.