When it comes to beverage development, the most important thing is to have an idea that you will not just be passionate about but will as well lead many others down the production line. As a matter of fact, we have lots of ideas on some of the home made drinks that we wonder whether or not they would be fit for production and bottling. The challenge that should be known and appreciated is that it is often a bit hard to copy most of these homemade drinks and turn them into commercial drinks more so looking at the fact that there will be the need to incorporate the use of professional raw materials. As a result of this challenge, many who have had these idea have eventually come to the realization that those beverages that they attempt to do for commercial purposes, doing such a large scale production, actually don’t end up tasting like the ones that they had for their domestic uses from the home kitchen or as it is in their domestic laboratories.
To help you get things started right, you would want to first think of the purpose of the drink. In a general sense, it is to be noted that beverages quite serve a variety of functions some of which are those designed for refreshing and these generally happen to be simple in terms of their formulation to the more complex versions like those meant for beauty and digest. But having said all this, it is generally wise to know of the function of the beverage as this gets to simplify lots of the other processes down the line such as the choice of ingredients and the possible flavor to use in the development process of the beverage.
We will take a look at some of the essential ingredients that should be known of when it comes to beverage formulation or development. It is important to be aware of the necessary parts of the drink. Talking of the ingredients, these come of various kinds which you can opt for and some of these are; sugar, artificial sweeteners, stevia, deionised grape juice concentrate and homey/agave nectar. By and large, note the fact that all of these indeed have their pros and cons and as a matter of fact, you should therefore know of their unique pros and cons for you to make up your mind from an informed perspective for the one that will work for you perfectly for the end product to meet your specifications.
Other than the sweeteners as ingredients making up your beverage formulation, there are as well some of these that you must know of as a matter of fact when thinking of beverage development; juice content, acidity regulators, flavorings and preservatives. For more on the various ingredients that you need to know of as you go about the beverage development or formulation stages, see here.
