17 facilities, compared on the four things that decide a shortlist: how small they'll go, what they can fill, whether formulation is included, and whether they're licensed for alcohol. 4 publish a minimum. Where a number isn't published, we say so rather than guess.
Alphabetical. Texas has more facilities that name a figure than any other state on this site — read the unit as carefully as the number, because gallons and barrels are not cases.
| Facility | City | Minimum run | Formats | Alcohol | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aegle Nutrition | Carrollton | Not published | PET | No | Hot or cold fill, reverse-osmosis water. Up to 150,000 bottles per shift. Functional shots, protein, tea. Bottle material not stated. |
| Back Pew Brewing | Porter | Not published | Can, Keg | Yes | 30-barrel brewhouse. Pilot batches down to one barrel are possible before scaling, but no commercial minimum is stated. |
| BevPro Solutions | Denton | 2,000 gal | Can, Can sleek, Keg | Yes | Formerly Beer Dudes Canning, now a fixed canning plant in Denton. Its own FAQ states the floor: “Our standard batch runs are 2,000 gallons”. That is a batching lot, not a case count. Alcohol, wine-based and hemp-derived drinks, in cans and disposable kegs. |
| Bottle n Pak Texas | Willis | Not published | Not published | — | Single-page site with almost no operational detail, and it names only the county, never a city. Included for completeness; verify everything directly. |
| Carolina Beverage Group | Fort Worth, Roanoke | Not published | Can | Yes | Two Texas sites: plant at Fort Worth, warehouse at Roanoke. Cold fill, hot fill and tunnel pasteurisation. HQ in North Carolina. |
| Consolidated Mills | Houston | 25,000 unitsdeclared, not published | Bag-in-box | — | Not a ready-to-drink filler. A spice blender and concentrate maker: slush and sno-cone syrups, bar mixers, fountain syrups, beverage bases. Listed because it appears in Texas searches; it won't can your drink. |
| DrinkPAK | Fort Worth | Not published | Can, Can sleek, Can 16 oz | Yes | Fort Worth, as the second plant of a group whose first site is in Santa Clarita, California, with a third announced in Philadelphia for 2027. The widest range of can formats on this site: slim 5.1 to 8.4 oz, sleek 7.5 to 12 oz, standard 12 to 19.2 oz and king 24 oz, in packs of 4 to 24. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic, including wine and sake. No minimum published, and contact is by form only. |
| Epic Bottling | Coppell | Not published | Glass, PET, Can | No | Publishes a lead time, which is rarer than a minimum: 4 to 8 weeks from first consultation to first run for a new brand. |
| New Caney Beverage | New Caney | Not published | Can, Can sleek, Can 16 oz, PET, Pouch | No | FAQ states the minimum varies by product and packaging and refers you to sales — so no figure is published. Energy, tea, juice, hydration. |
| Real Ale Brewing Company | Blanco | 120 barrels / brand | Can, Can sleek, Can 16 oz, Glass, Keg | Yes | A brewery opening its line to contract work. States plainly that it offers neither PakTech nor pasteurisation — useful to know before you ask. |
| Refresco Waco | Waco | Not published | PET, Can | No | Waco, at 8400 Imperial Drive. A Refresco contract bottling plant — aseptic systems, FSSC 22000 reported — sitting roughly equidistant from Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin, Houston and San Antonio, which cuts freight to every Texas market. High volume: ask their floor before anything else. Address and phone confirmed across independent directories rather than the company’s own site, which returns a 404 for its locations page. |
| Son Beverage Company | San Antonio | 200 gal | PET, Glass | — | Lowest gallon figure published in the state. Stated as "200 gallon minimum" under Bottling Contract Volume, and varies with bottle size. Juice focus. |
| Southwest Packaging | Fort Worth | Not published | Pouch | Yes | A generalist contract packager — household, personal care, pet — that recently added alcohol co-packing. Not a beverage specialist. |
| TexBev Co-Packing | Fort Worth | Not published | Can sleek, Can, Can 16 oz | — | Their page reads "from 1,000 gallon trials to 100,000 gallon runs, we can do it all" — a span of what they can handle, not a floor you must clear. Verified 1 August 2026, so we no longer record it as a published minimum. |
| Very Good Manufacturing | Fort Worth | Not published | Glass, Can, Can sleek | Yes | Alcohol only. Bottle formats from 50 mL to 1 L are listed without stating the material. No phone or email published — contact form only. |
| Waco Bottling Co. | Woodway | Not published | Can | Yes | Hot and cold fill, up to 500 shots a minute. Beverages, shots, mixers, sauces and dressings. Site is live but poorly maintained. |
| Wildpack Beverage | Austin | 4,000 gal / SKU | Can, Can sleek | Yes | Bonded facilities. Largest gallon figure published here, and the clearest — both figures are stated on their own co-packing page. |
9 of the 17 facilities here are confirmed alcohol-capable — RTD cocktails, spirits, wine or beer. That is a high share, and it isn't a coincidence: several are breweries and distilleries selling spare line time, and one, Very Good Manufacturing, does nothing but alcohol.
If you're launching a canned cocktail or a hard seltzer, Texas is a shorter list to work through than most. If you're launching a juice or a functional shot, the field narrows quickly — Aegle, Epic, New Caney and Son Beverage are the non-alcohol specialists.
Note also what Texas is not: it isn't the low-minimum state. Florida holds that ground, with published minimums down to a single pallet. The smallest published figure in Texas is 200 gallons.
Dallas–Fort Worth is the densest cluster: Carolina Beverage Group, DrinkPAK, Southwest Packaging, TexBev and Very Good Manufacturing are all in Fort Worth, with Epic Bottling in Coppell, Aegle Nutrition in Carrollton and BevPro Solutions in Denton — eight facilities inside the metroplex.
Houston has New Caney Beverage and Back Pew Brewing to the north-east, plus Consolidated Mills in the city itself. San Antonio has Son Beverage, Austin has Wildpack, and Waco has Waco Bottling. Real Ale sits in Blanco, in the Hill Country between Austin and San Antonio.
Freight on liquid is heavy, and it's the cost most first-time founders underestimate. Inside a state this size, the distance between Fort Worth and the Rio Grande Valley is a real line on the quote.
TexBev's 1,000 gallons is not a minimum. Their page frames it as the low end of what they can run — "from 1,000 gallon trials to 100,000 gallon runs, we can do it all" — not as a floor you must meet. Ask them directly what the smallest order they will actually take is.
Consolidated Mills' 25,000 units comes from a third-party directory rather than their own site, so it isn't highlighted as published. More importantly, they make concentrates and syrups, not finished ready-to-drink beverages — they appear in Texas co-packer searches, but they can't fill your can.
Only 4 of the 17 publish a minimum at all. That's the norm rather than the exception — only 38 of the 234 facilities we track nationally publish one.
Tell us the product and the volume. We come back with the facilities that can actually run it — not a list of everyone in the state.