5 facilities, and one of them does something almost no co-packer in the country does: it publishes its minimum run. Four hundred cases, on its own site, where a brand can hold it to the number.
The Nations Brewing publishes 400 cases and the figure was confirmed at the source on 1 August. The other three do not publish a floor, so the cell says so rather than guessing at one.
| Facility | City | Minimum run | Formats | Alcohol | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Brewing Co. | — | Not published | Can, Glass, Keg | Yes | Memphis, the old Schlitz brewery of 1972, bought by City in 2011 and expanded since. Around 80 million cases a year — by a wide margin the largest facility on this page, and part of the group that calls itself the largest full-service co-manufacturer in the United States. Beer, FMB, spirit-based RTD and non-alcoholic, in cans, bottles and kegs. No minimum, lead time or certification published. inquiries@citybrewery.com. |
| Coal’d Water Distilling Company | Dandridge | Not published | Can, Can sleek | Yes | Distillery and co-packer in Dandridge, east Tennessee. Cans still and sparkling water, energy, CSD, RTD cocktails and functional drinks, 8 oz sleek through 19.2 oz. In-house shrink-sleeving. |
| HealthVerve Food Manufacturing USA | Livingston | Not published | Can, Can 16 oz | — | Listed here for its Livingston, Tennessee plant; the company also publishes a California address. RTD and functional drinks, cans, filling and private label. Confirm which site would run your product. |
| SPEAKeasy Spirits (Pennington Distilling Co.) | Nashville | Not published | Glass | Yes | Nashville distillery with its own brands that also does contract bottling, rectifying and private label for other spirits brands. The third-party offer is not prominent on their own site — low confidence, worth a direct question. |
| The Nations Brewing Co | Nashville | 400 cases | Can, Can 16 oz, Keg | Yes | Nashville brewery and co-packer. Beer up to 10.1%, seltzers and FMB, non-alcoholic, RTD coffee. Cans 12 and 16 oz plus kegs, in-line pasteuriser. The published 400-case minimum was confirmed at source on 1 August 2026. |
Most canning lines in this database start somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 cases per SKU. The Nations Brewing publishes 400 — roughly a fifth of the usual entry point, and it is a working Nashville brewery that also runs seltzers, non-alcoholic drinks and RTD coffee.
That matters more than its size. A brand testing a first flavour does not need a plant that can run a million cases; it needs one that will accept a run small enough to be affordable if the flavour fails. Tennessee has one that says so publicly.
The others cover ground the brewery does not: Coal’d Water in Dandridge cans still and sparkling water, energy, soda and RTD cocktails, and SPEAKeasy Spirits in Nashville bottles spirits under contract.
SPEAKeasy Spirits runs its own labels — Whisper Creek, Pickers Vodka, Davidson Reserve — alongside contract bottling for others. Its own site is not explicit about the third-party offer, which is why we hold it at low confidence. Ask them the plain question before planning around it.
HealthVerve is a genuine Tennessee entry with a caveat worth stating: the company publishes two addresses, one in Rancho Cucamonga, California and one in Livingston, Tennessee. It appears on this page because of the Livingston plant, not the head office.
No facility here publishes a lead time. On a 400-case run that is usually the more binding constraint of the two, so ask for weeks before you ask for price.
The 400-case figure is per SKU, not per order. Two flavours at 400 cases each is two runs, not one, and changeovers are where small runs get expensive. Ask what a second SKU on the same day costs.
A brewery that co-packs is also a competitor for line time. The Nations, like most working breweries on this site, packs its own beer first. Ask where you sit in the schedule when their own release calendar gets busy.
Tell us the product and the volume. One Tennessee facility publishes 400 cases and the others publish nothing — this is the fastest way to find out which of them will actually run your size.