The Food Challenge Award 2011 Beverages category is sponsored by O-I.
Di Bella Coffee Company
TORQ Natural Instant Coffee
TORQ is a natural coffee concentrate that can be used to make a fresh full-bodied cup of hot coffee or a thirst quenching iced coffee. It uses a cold brew process in conjunction with a patented micro-filtration, which creates a contaminant-free product, with12 month shelf stability at room temperature. It has no additives or preservatives. The coffee is full-bodied, sensationally smooth, and never bitter.
JMB Beverages
Hopman Alcohol Removed Premium Pale
Hopman Premium Pale is an alcohol removed beer launched in the domestic market in November 2010. Careful selection and rigorous assessment of ingredients (especially hops), has enabled the company to produce a premium "beer-like" beverage that is both non-intoxicating and almost identical in flavor to an alcoholic beer.
Nova Springwater Pty Ltd
Nova Springwater
The springwater goes to 4 stages of sub micron filtration starting with 0.2 micron Quartz Filter, 0.1 micron Precision Filter, UV disinfection and Finally 0.01 micron Hollow Fibre Filter, these standards are much more rigid compared to the current industry standards of 10, 5 and 1 micron filtration.
The 12L bottle type is an Australian first to offer a BPA free bottle for water coolers, using 60% less plastics per litre when compared to a 600ml disposable bottle types.
Oomph! Coffee
Oomph! Tasmanian Gourmet Coffee
Oomph! Coffee is sourced from farmers from all over the world under a ‘Global Care’ agreement, which ensures that farmers are paid fair wages for their harvest. The beans used to make the coffee are hand selected and blended to complement their individual characteristics.
Pacific Beverages
Bruers Bright
Bruers Bright Beer is an unpasteurised, natural draught beer filled straight into kegs using a unique flavour seal process that locks in the brewery fresh taste. It is a highly drinkable Australian style draught lager with a clean fresh aroma, a fruity individualistic palate and a soft bitter aftertaste, delivering the ultimate fresh beer experience.
Preshafood
Preshafruit
Preshafruit is the world’s first high pressure processed fruit juice, which is made from quality 100% Australian fruit and has a shelf-life of 210 days without any preservatives. Preshafruit is made from a unique cold pressure technology, which uses less energy, delivers twice the natural vitamin C, antioxidants and digestive enzymes of any traditional heat pasteurised juice.
Rebello Wines
Cheeky Rascal Cider
Cheeky Rascal ciders are genuine fruit ciders containing 100 per cent apple, strawberry, raspberry and pear juice, with a variety of apples used. No flavouring or concentrates are used. Depending on the season, a combination of Granny Smith, Pink Lady or Royal Gala apples are selected to make the cider, giving the best flavour profile and sugar/acid balance. Raspberry and strawberry varieties are also selected according to seasonal availability and the flavour, sugar acid requirements needed to balance with the apple.
Beam Global Australia
Russian Standard Vodka Citrus RTD
Russian Standard Vodka Citrus RTD (Ready-To-Drink) is a refreshing beverage created exclusively for the Australian market. The brand’s soft, pure qualities result from state-of-the-art filtration and distillation techniques at a sophisticated vodka production centre in St Petersburg, Russia.
Somage Fine Foods
Chamellia Iced Tea
Chamellia Organic Iced Teas are the first high pressure pasteurised, cold infused and ready-to-drink iced teas. The teas are made from fruit, whole leaf tea or herbs and contain no artificial colours, flavours, sugars, or concentrates. High pressure pasteurisation is then used during bottling to ensure that the nutritional value of the ingredients is preserved in the end product.