Printed carriers and cases for 12 oz and 16 oz cans, longnecks and stubbies, from 4-packs up to 24-count. Paperboard for shelf carriers, corrugated for cases and shippers, sized to your container and printed full color with your label art.
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Craft beer lives and dies in the cooler door. You’ve got maybe two seconds while someone scans a wall of six-packs, and the box is doing all the talking. Our custom beer boxes are made for breweries, taprooms and beverage brands that need carriers and cases built around their actual cans or bottles, not a generic size that rattles.
Beer packaging also has to work hard. It gets wet, it gets stacked, it sits in a walk-in at 36 degrees and then sweats on a store floor. So the board, the fit and the handle all matter as much as the art.
Cans and bottles need different structures. A 16 oz tallboy is light and smooth, so it slides around in a loose carrier and dents if it knocks its neighbor. Bottles are heavier and break, which is why bottle carriers usually have partitions between each one and a stronger base.
Most breweries we work with order one of three things: a 4 or 6-pack shelf carrier in printed paperboard, a 12 or 24-count case in corrugated, or a plain shipper to get cases from the brewery to the distributor. If you’re unsure on dimensions, our guide to beer box dimensions works it out by container, and how many beers come in a case covers the standard counts.
Condensation is the quiet killer of beer packaging. Cold cans go into a warm room, they sweat, and plain paperboard soaks it up and goes soft by the afternoon. Gloss or matte lamination on SBS paperboard helps a lot here, since it gives the surface a barrier against moisture. Kraft carriers look great for a rustic brand, but they need the same thinking.
For cases, corrugated is the standard. A single wall B-flute case handles most 12-packs of cans, while heavier glass in 24-count often wants double wall. Handles get their own attention. A die-cut handle in a 6-pack carrier is where everything pulls when someone lifts it out of the cooler, so we reinforce that area rather than just punching a hole and hoping.
Brewers change labels a lot. Seasonals, collabs, limited releases. Digital printing suits that well, because most jobs run with no die or plate charges, so short runs for a one-off IPA don’t cost you a fortune in setup. The design team will also take your can label art and adapt it to the carrier panels for free, which saves you a round trip with your designer.
Gold or silver foil on the brewery name, spot UV on the logo and holographic foil for special releases all print well on paperboard carriers. Leave room on a side panel for the style, ABV and any required state info. Your distributor will ask.
Minimums are low, often around 50 boxes depending on the style, and the per-box price drops as the order grows. That’s useful for a small brewery testing a new carrier before committing to a full run. You’ll get a digital proof first, and you can ask for a physical sample to check the fit with real cans.
Standard production is 10 to 12 business days after proof approval, with rush available on request and free ground shipping anywhere in the USA. Bottled brands should also look at our 4 pack bottle carrier and the wider bottle packaging boxes range.
Not well. The height and diameter are close enough to tempt you, but a carrier sized for tallboys lets standard cans flop around, so we size each carrier to one can format.
Laminated paperboard handles condensation far better than uncoated board, and that’s what we usually recommend for anything that will sit in a refrigerated case.
Yes. Many breweries keep one carrier shape and swap the artwork per release, which keeps the cost down and the shelf set looking consistent.
