Filter-Friendly Aseptic Purees: Higher Yield, Real Fruit Character
Seven years of R&D and a proprietary enzyme blend brings you a puree that performs better on filtration-sensitive lines without giving up any of the fruit. Here's what makes filter-friendly dif...
The Functional Beverage Question Most Manufacturers Haven't Answered Yet
Functional has been the loudest word in non-alcoholic beverages for the better part of a decade, but most manufacturers' lineups still don't include one. Here's what keeps the category stuck, and w...
2026 Craft Brewers Conference: Recap
The Oregon Fruit Fermentation team just wrapped CBC 2026 in Philadelphia. From fruit-forward trends and World Beer Cup standouts to taproom slushies and a clear shift in industry energy, here's wha...
Your Taproom Is More Than a Bar. Here's How to Make It Unforgettable
The best taprooms in the country have one thing in common, and it has nothing to do with what's on draft. Oregon Fruit's fermentation team breaks down what separates the spaces people keep coming b...
The Marionberry: Grown in Oregon. Shared With Pride.
The marionberry didn't happen by accident. It took the Willamette Valley, a USDA horticulturist in Corvallis, and about seventy years of getting it right. Here's where it came from — and why we're ...
Chris Hodge - Director of Sales
Chris Hodge has spent more than 40 years in the craft beverage world — from introducing Tiger Lager to the U.S. market, to helping build early relationships with Widmer, Bridgeport, and Deschutes, ...
Dan Wirth - Fermentation Sales Manager
Dan Wirth spent a decade in craft beer — including time as Key Account Manager at Migration Brewing, where Oregon Fruit products were already part of seasonal planning. He joined Oregon Fruit becau...
Invented in Italy. Perfected in Oregon.
Oregon State University put American cherries on the map. A century later, we asked why nobody had used that same fruit-obsessed spirit to make a cocktail cherry worth caring about. This is that st...
Oregon Fruit Refreshers are the Best New Product. Voted by the People Who Matter Most.
Oregon Fruit Co. Refreshers just won Best New Product at the 2026 National Restaurant Association Show — voted on by the operators, chefs, and beverage directors who were there. Here's what happene...
Oregon Fruit Co. has been named a 2025 Dot Foods Quality & Service Award winner — our seventh consecutive year earning this recognition. Here's what that track record means for foodservice buye...
Fruit Purees: The Ingredient Hero You Never Knew You Needed
Finding a single ingredient that tastes great, works across your entire menu, and keeps operations simple sounds too good to be true — but fruit purees deliver exactly that. From flavored lemonades...
What's Selling Now: An Iconic Bottle Shop Owner on Beverage Trends
We sat down with Paul, the new owner of Portland's iconic John's Marketplace, to talk about the beverage trends reshaping his shelves — from surprising new categories to the styles quietly losing g...