Among coffee consumers, one of the hottest coffee trends is chilled, ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee. These canned or bottled coffees are widely available in most supermarket and convenience stores, often in a variety of flavors. Among the 18-39 age group, these beverages rival or outpace sales of hot, brewed coffees.
Founded in 2018, Nashville-based Good Citizen Coffee Co. (GCC) is capitalizing on this trend with four distinct flavors of chilled canned coffees that complement a full line of speciality coffee products, teas, and accessories. Even more, the company has taken the RTD concept to much higher levels of taste and quality using an innovative coffee steeping and extraction system of its own design, engineered and built by Deutsche Beverage + Process using Siemens automation and controls.
